BBC2’s “magnificent blood-soaked tale of the Old West” features a “bravura” performance by Emily Blunt, said Nick Clark in the London Evening Standard. She plays Lady Cornelia Locke, who arrives in Maryland in 1890 in search of the man who caused her son’s death, and teams up with Native American Eli Whipp (the “riveting” Chaske Spencer), an ex-US army scout.
Together they undertake an epic journey that pits them against a series of rogues, leading to violence that is at times “bloody and visceral”.
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