I agree about Turn...I'm amazed that someone actually had the guts to pitch it to a production company, and that it got green lighted. It's a good start, but we need a lot more shows like it, celebrating all phases of American history.
We also need to work on getting more conservative/patriotic music (other than country, which most young people don't listen to), video games, sports team ownership, and so on. The Pubbies were stupid to surrender in the culture war.
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Be sure to contact AMC and ask them to take another look at James Riley's "Courage New Hampshire". You can buy the episodes he's already done but he's struggling to round up cash for more. He even had Andrew Beitbart play a cameo role as a colonial sheriff in one episode. It takes place a few years earlier than Turn as a small town begins to resist the increasing pressure of the British.
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I also enjoy a story of the American Revolution that is unashamed to recognize the British as the bad guys. They were, after all, morally compromised, fighting for a cause you can tell they had trouble believing. Now, I have not watched the series to the end, and no villain can be so uniformly villainous you have no sense of their humanity, but there’s enough here, certainly, to hate — and drama thrives on hate. A dramatic, fictional television series can’t be as neutral as the bloodless academy observer, clucking on about a war that can’t possibly touch him. Men voluntarily enlist in armies and go to war for a reason. I’m glad the series producers appear to realize that.
We live in a great, though fading republic, and the truth is: we need a lot more of these stories. We shouldn’t be counting them on one hand.
Its easy to be self righteous about not watching television but its a losing strategy. Better that we promote and support good TV at every opportunity.