Yeah, they're pretty annoying but it's hard to imagine how else a faithful, live action version of Ed could behave.Ī lot of the problems with the show stem from an attempt to apply cartoon logic to live action. Played by non-binary actor Eden Perkins, who, surprisingly, still doesn't have a Wikipedia entry, they come off sort of like a zany '90s Jim Carrey knock-off.
We can all come together in our disappointment.Ī lot of people start by talking about how "cringey" Ed is, though Ed doesn't appear until the last scene of the last episode. Even Screen Rant is talking shit about it, which means they think it's very safe to do so.
The consensus seems even greater than the one for the nigh-universally disliked Thirteenth Doctor era of Doctor Who. Everyone's saying it now, in a heart-warming union of normally polarised political camps. I guess you don't need to me to tell you it's not very good. I finally finished watching the live action Cowboy Bebop last night. Rachel and the Stranger is available on the Criterion Channel. Mitchum strolls along and starts singing with Rachel and the tension begins. Yet Holden never gives the impression of a tyrant, just a clueless guy. David is forced to reluctantly acknowledge things and doesn't seem to notice when he constantly interrupts Rachel before she can make suggestions or tell him about her skills. It all plays out with decent subtlety and all the actors show why they were stars. Lucky for him, the local Parson and his wife are just as pragmatic as David and they suggest a local bondwoman, Rachel (Young).ĭavid effectively buys her and marries her and then the three of them go home. So he saddles his horse and sets out for town to get a new wife, just like that.
Mitchum plays Jim, a wanderer and professional hunter and friend of the family who stays with them on occasion.ĭavid reaches the practical conclusion that his boy needs a mother to school him while David's out tending crops and livestock. William Holden plays David Harvey, a stoic man with a farm, a little boy (Gary Gray), and a recently deceased wife. The round brimmed hats and lack of belt loops suggest pre-Civil War but no-one's wearing knee-breeches. It's not an earth-shattering masterpiece but a quite competently made, pleasant hour and nineteen minute diversion.
He forms one part of a love triangle in 1948's Rachel and the Stranger, the other nodes being William Holden and Loretta Young. Frontier settlers could take heart if Robert Mitchum strolled onto their homestead, singing and playing guitar.