It ain’t all sunshine and rainbows, though, as her child was murdered, before the plot goes back 13 years earlier to 1890.

But that's what HBO said about Big Little Lies, and many other even more expensive hits that got brought back for more. Whipp is sent away with the coachman, Sebold Cusk, to be framed for Locke's murder, but instead kills a gang of robbers while Cusk is mortally shot.

The English stars Emily Blunt ( A Quiet Place) and is produced by award-winning company Drama Republic (the team behind Doctor Foster, Us and Black Earth Rising) plus it's been written and directed by multi-award-winning Hugo Blick ( The Honourable Woman, The Shadow Line).

Melmont joins them in massacring a Cheyenne settlement at Chalk River with a stolen Gatling gun, while Trafford and Whipp, a member of the soldiers' company, are unable to intervene. Hugo Blick's epic dog-eat-coyote-eat-vulture-eat-human tale took in the diversity of the Native American frontier experience, the exploitation of (and by) settlers, the impact of white religions, the racist basis of "scientific" theories of culture and the whole gory history of America's founding. She reunites the children with the caravan of Mennonites, but realises the Clarkes are not what they seem: they betray passing travellers to outlaws who kill and rob them, disposing of the bodies and taking a share of the loot. Maybe in future episodes it improves, but only one was available initially, and it really does not inspire me to mosey on down this plain again. It's a mini series that's only six episodes long so it won't take long to binge it and it's worth every second?His fellow farmer and former army mate Billy Myers asks Sheriff Marshall if marks were found on the bodies, and Billy's wife Martha confronts Trafford for seizing her unbranded cattle.