People are voting emotionally.

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

In this prequel to "Lonesome Dove", two young men join the Texas Rangers unit that's on a mission to annex Santa Fe. Although i felt that both David Arquette as Augustus McCrae and Jonny Lee Miller as Woodrow F. Call brought nothing to the plot and were kinda forgettable and uninteresting this Mini-TV Series packed great performances by Keith Carradine, Harry Dean Stanton and Edward James Olmos. It also stayed true to this old westerns and Cowboys v.s Indians which was something that reminded me a lot of my childhood i think that Episodes 1 and 3 had the most impact on me they were very interesting because Episode 2 kinda drugged many times but other than that pretty good series and people who like this sort of types of films or shows or even grew up with westerns won't be disappointed (7.5/10)

Larry McMurtry always takes some liberties with history; however, he went off the reservation when dealing with Dead Man's walk. He portrayed the Mier Expedition as a "small undertaking" including having Big Foot Wallace and 3 others executed during the black bean selection. This whole section of the story was full of inaccuracies. There were 17 men executed --- and Big Foot Wallace wasn't one of them --- he lived to a ripe old age. Its a good story, however the cast was somewhat lackluster. I've read all of the McMurtry books and can see the characters come to life as in Lonesome Dove. I couldn't say the same for this adaption.

I have yet to understand exactly why this three-part western series fascinated me as it did. I haven't even seen part one yet, but apart from top notch performances from all (Carradine, Arquette, Abraham and Stanton are great, Childress truly touching, Olmos wonderfully understated as always, and Jonny Lee Miller showing himself as an unchallenged champion of micro-expression, with a face that speaks volumes without moving a muscle) I was swept off my seat by the lyrically philosophical undertow that became increasingly clarified - though never too explicit - as part two progressed. The rough rangers are gradually transformed into a Community of Saints (to quote Lionel Trilling's phrase), suffering patiently as they are subjected to random killings, first in the shape of a blind captain shooting right and left, later from a diabolic Apache assassin ("he's nibbling at us!", Carradine exclaims) and random executions as they arrive at their journey's end (without ever reaching their destination) - finally to be surprised by Grace Personified, in the shape of an opera-singing leprous lady.At first, after having seen the ending (and a marvelously abrupt ending it is, bringing Chaplin's "City Lights" to mind), I thought of comparing it to the best of Eastwood's later films or Ford's "The Searchers". But "Dead Man's Walk" is not just a western, and it quietly and modestly indicates a meaning that goes beyond the plot - I believe it is Theatre of the Absurd at its very best. Samuel Beckett might have written this, or Harold Pinter.Not even the tacky fade-outs to commercial breaks could ruin this ingenious gem for me.It not only stands up to the brilliant "Lonesome Dove" - in my mind this prequel surpasses it. I understand scriptwriter MacMurtry is also responsible for "Brokeback Mountain" which I have yet to see.

Larry McMurtry seems to be turning "Lonesome Dove" into a cottage industry, but this "prequel" works fairly well on its own terms. It's mounted in good-looking style and has a first-rate whipping scene wherein Jonny Lee Miller, stripped to the waist, is tied to the back of a wagon and given 100 lashes, the first 50 by one man and the second 50 by another. When that first lash hits Miller's bare back, you not only see it and hear it -- you FEEL it!