Get Your First Look at Emily Blunt In Prime Video Western 'The English'
As Americans, the idea of the Old West is foundational to our national mythology. Images of cowboys, sharpshooters, prospectors, and Native American tribes lept into the world's collective imagination. That can-do frontier spirit is as much a part of our idea of ourselves as a country as Betsy Ross and her flag.
Popular recent television programs like Deadwood, Hell on Wheels, 1883, and Godless have explored the period in varying levels of detail, wrestling with ideas of expansion, immigration, and opportunity. But, for obvious reasons, it's not a setting that British period dramas often tackle.
However, that seems set to change with the arrival of the upcoming Prime Video and BBC collaboration, The English.
