Six darkly-comic Western vignettes explore the bleak, absurdist, and pulpy nature of frontier life.
Dark satire. A late-night trip at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Netflix.
Of what we could confirm, nothing runs past an R: strong violence and some strong language.
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Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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