The story of the enduring friendship between Orry Main of South Carolina and George Hazard of Pennsylvania, who become best friends while attending the United States Military Academy at West Point but later find themselves and their families on opposite sides of the American Civil War.
James Read Lesley-Anne Down Patrick Swayze Philip Casnoff Terri Garber Jonathan Frakes Kyle Chandler Cathy Lee Crosby Mariette Hartley Rya Kihlstedt Tom Noonan Stan Shaw Rip Torn Robert Wagner Billy Dee Williams Cliff DeYoung Gary Grubbs Chris Burke Gregory Zaragoza Peter O'Toole Sharon Washington Ann Dowd Darryl Theirse Cameron Finley Brad Leland Julius Tennon
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After finishing Justified some months back, the Last Ship ending, and Better Call Saul on hiatus, I’d been searching for some good character driven quality to binge. Then I found this on the rack at Cracker Barrell.
North & South has been on my radar for awhile. I love historical America, doubly so when it is authentic and/or accurate. Not hollywooded. Gettysburg, God’s and Generals, John Adams are up there. So I was quite eager to tear into this series now that the opportunity was blantantly in front of me.
The theme of families and friends divided as the north and south’s steer toward disasssociation, secession, and civil war is the strong driving main theme personalizesd in the two…
Patrick Swayze and James Read meet on the way to West Point and become best friends. The problem is that one is a wealthy white guy from the North, while the other is a wealthy white guy from the South. This was back in the day when North and South were places on the map, not merely directions, and these places had their differences, especially when the subject turned to SLAVERY. Even though Swayze's family treated their slaves as well as their dogs, Read was stubbornly preachy in his abolitionist views, causing a rift between the two men that ultimately would bring them face to face on the battlefield.
North and South is TV miniseries from the 80's that is…
only two episodes in (which is the length of 2 movies, mind you) and I am flabbergasted that this 1985 miniseries is perhaps the most nuanced look at the pre-civil war sociopolitical climate I’ve ever seen ????? I was just here to see patrick swayze riding horses and fighting with swords. I didn’t know it was gonna go this hard
Sweeping epic about two families the twenty years before the Civil War. Wonderfully realized with lavish costumes and beautiful locations. The theme music washes through you like Mama's cookin'. The cast is all amazing and it does a very nice job at switching between multiple storylines. They present both sides very justly and it's intriguing to see how this bloody war could happen. I loved every moment.
No one of Gen Z has heard of this TV series. I think it’s one of the greatest things my father has shown me and I was in love with all the characters. I love thy at this whole series is on YouTube too. Don’t watch the third book though, never seen shittier content.
While the production values are amazing and the actors do a great job it still contains the very old, and needs to finally be buried, historical fallacy of slavery not being so bad because there were some slave owners who were nice to their human property and didn’t treat them mean. I mean they were still human property, like livestock, but we aren’t beating them like the guy down the lane does so it’s not such a bad thing. Anyway, for a pre-streaming era, made for network TV, not cable, series, the production levels are impressive.
James Read and Patrick Swayze play two young men who meet and become fast friends while at Westpoint despite one being from the North and the other from the South in this mini series based on the novel by John Jakes. The struggle to keep their friendship going as America divides leading up to the Civil war. Extremely good storytelling with an excellent cast. Also features Kirstie Alley, David Carradine, Lesley Anne Down, Elizabeth Taylor and so many more.
