Bass Reeves deserves better – 'Lawmen' doesn't do justice to the Black U.S. marshal
As a Black TV critic who loves Westerns, Eric Deggans really wanted to like this show. But he found the first four episodes were focused on being a Modern Western Epic, at the expense of Reeves' story
I really, really wanted to love Paramount+'s new series Lawmen: Bass Reeves.
Not just because it stars magnetic British actor David Oyelowo, in a series he reportedly worked more than eight years to get made. But because, as a Black man who loves Westerns, I have been complaining for decades about the need for someone to make a great TV show or film about Reeves, a real person who was among the first African Americans to serve as a deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi.
Unfortunately, after watching four episodes of , I fear this is not
