A family's arduous journey west across the Great Plains unfolds with gritty, epic, and bleak earnestness.
Earnest. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on Paramount+.
It stays inside its TV-MA, with moderate sex and nudity, and brutal violence.
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Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. A stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land — Montana.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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