Should you watch Hatfields & McCoys?
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Hatfields & McCoys
Series · 2012
It’s the true American story of a legendary family feud—one that spanned decades and nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. The Hatfield-McCoy saga begins with Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy.. Close friends and comrades until near the end of the Civil War, they return to their neighboring homes—Hatfield in West Virginia, McCoy just across the Tug River border in Kentucky—to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments that soon explode into all-out warfare between their families. As hostilities grow, friends, neighbors and outside forces join the fight, bringing the two states to the brink of another civil war.
The sides of Hatfields & McCoys
- Two Civil War comrades turned enemies
- A feud across the Kentucky border
- Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton as rival patriarchs
Hatfields & McCoys is good for you if…
- you like a true American feud set after the Civil War.
- you can take a story where revenge only brings more graves.
- you like Costner and Paxton facing off as Devil Anse and Randall.
Hatfields & McCoys is bad for you if…
- you can't stand ambushes and executions on screen.
- you can't commit to a long miniseries spread over several nights.
About: revenge · family honour · pride · the aftermath of war
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