the good the bad and the ugly

Classical music, art and cinema all have their place and are often given the respect they are due. So it is with the Western. Some of America's greatest fables and folktales exist in the Western genre. From the gunfight at the OK Corral to…

In Part 1 of this series I mentioned that my first experience of the golden age of TV was binge-watching 8 hours of The Sopranos two days prior to the beginning of season 2 in early 2000. Part of the joy of that immersion seems antiquated…