Part 3 [HD]

History Takes On America's Most Notorious Feud And Scores Blockbuster Ratings: Great Mini-Series, Pricey On-Demand
Note: I know prices are subject to change, but I'd like to point out that the introductory offer of $8.99 per episode (or $9.99 HD) is wildly excessive for something that aired for free.

The History Channel has been trying to stretch its wings in recent years and adapt into a more competitive TV marketplace (that's why some of their reality programs seem less and less connected to actual history). Last year, they commissioned their first dramatic mini-series, "The Kennedys," which they then decided not to air due to outside pressures. REELZ picked up "The Kennedys," it became a hit for them, and it won multiple EMMYs at last year's ceremony. Well, I guess the ancestors of the Hatfields and the McCoys don't have as much political clout as the remaining Kennedy clan, because no complaints stopped the ambitious three part "Hatfields and McCoys" from airing. Proving that there is still life for the mini-series format outside of premium cable, "Hatfields and McCoys" was an...

Simply Awesome---One of the few gems in the film industry!
Absolutely enjoyed this elite series. One of the VERY few true gems in the film industry. Never boring, never predictable, all-involving and captivating!
Definitely a keeper and multiple-viewings treasure!1-04 [HD]

Mountain madness straight up....
The Hatfields and McCoys plays out on screen impeccably, thanks to bulls-eye performances by the entire cast, most notably Kevin Costner, who assumes the role of the formidable "Devil Anse," with an astonishing likeness. Granted, Costner is one very versatile actor who defies typecasting. Yet...the thought of the boyishly handsome, even-featured, Kevin Costner playing the role of craggy, hook-nosed patriarch, Devil Anse Hatfield, seems unimaginable and ill advised. But we are talking about Kevin Costner, of course, the same actor who appears equally at home on a baseball diamond, putting green. Indian reservation, and a world under water. To say he mastered the part of Devil Anderson ("Anse") Hatfield would be giving the actor short shrift. He became the man in every sense of the word -- gestures, locution, facial expressions.

The mini-series captures the raw essence of frontier life in rural Appalachia but galvanizes the mundane with gunshots, grit and hair-trigger...

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