Grant
Season 1 Premiere:
May 25, 2020
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May 21, 2020
90
[Grant] follows the standard formula for historical specials: expert testimony, dramatic re-enactments, period photography, maps and montages. But it is all executed at a much higher level than viewers are used to. ... For all its warfare and violence, eloquent interviews and gorgeous photographs, viewers will discover that the real star of “Grant” is the character of the subject himself.
May 22, 2020
75
As a viewing experience, "Grant" is often engaging. While the docudrama dialogue can be clunky — the common fault of these things — the battle scenes are much better. ... Salinger's ("Ripper Street") Grant is good too. His eyes capture what Grant must have felt: Unbearable sadness yoked to ironclad resolution. A winner.
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May 26, 2020
8
very high production quality, esp. cinematography. There is some serious money behind this. Acting is also top notch. The editing of scenes is excellent, switching seemlessly between action scenes and commentary. Superior to anything I've seen on historical docudramas.
My only -very minor- gripe is some of the romanticizing and superficial account of Grant's ideas about abolition and personal life. In the first episode, at least, it feels the show pushes its own views on Grant's stance without many clear and objective accounts from his personal correspondance for instance. However, in this day and age of instant gratification, lack of reading/culture and passive attitudes towards information, this will do I guess.
