Damnation

Damnation

2017
Damnation
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Damnation

7.6 | TV-MA | en | Western

Seth Davenport is masquerading as a small town Iowa preacher in the hopes of starting a full-blown insurrection against the status quo, unaware that an industrialist tycoon has hired a professional strikebreaker to stop the uprising by any means necessary. An epic saga of the secret history of the 1930’s American heartland, chronicling the mythic conflict and bloody struggle between big money and the downtrodden, God and greed, charlatans, and prophets.

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Released: 2017-11-07 | Released Producted By: UCP , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.usanetwork.com/damnation
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Seth Davenport is masquerading as a small town Iowa preacher in the hopes of starting a full-blown insurrection against the status quo, unaware that an industrialist tycoon has hired a professional strikebreaker to stop the uprising by any means necessary. An epic saga of the secret history of the 1930’s American heartland, chronicling the mythic conflict and bloody struggle between big money and the downtrodden, God and greed, charlatans, and prophets.

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Killian Scott , Logan Marshall-Green , Sarah Jones

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Jonnie Katz

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vsveig Pay no attention to the negative reviews as they come from snowflakey tRumpsters that can't distinguish between communism and nationalsosialism. The main story takes place in Iowa in the 1930's, great depression era. A former scab(strike-breaker), now wanted fugitive posing as a preacher and his wife are urging farmers to fight against their oppressors at the same time trying to stay hidden from corrupt police, the klan and long lost family with a chip on his shoulder. I really hope there will be a season 2 of Damnation.
cmidnightsky It's poorly acted and the costumes are just as bad as the rest of the props. So many unnecessary subplots that went no where. Zack McGowan is the only good thing about this show.
gherota Very well drawn characters , and a bunch of actors of whom we will see some more of them . But what is a real plus with this show, is that someone up there in Hollywood had the balls to show the life as it was during the G.D. and the real face of capitalism at its worst . And the real face of America , just another communist country but with different name and face. And believe it boys and girls, it was like that and even worst than that... And that's the real quality of this show, the cruel life of then, predicting the cruel life of now. So, drop the BS of the facebook (sic) , tweet and the likes and watch the show . It may give you a look at your future.
davidtalburtt If you liked "Deadwood" you might like "Damnation." Both "Damnation" and "Deadwood" are about power politics and corruption in western settings, "Deadwood" being set in the 19th Century Gilded Age in South Dakota, "Damnation" set in rural Iowa during the Great Depression (1931). FYI, the writers and director of "Damnation" have worked on projects like "Longmire" and "Office Space." The writing is well done (if brutal), and the acting excellent. Filmed in Calgary, Alberta, the scenery passes well enough for some parts of Iowa.One of the differences between the two series is that "Damnation" is, while set in the past, deliberately intends to comment on our current state of affairs in the early 21st Century. The 1930's, like our time now, was a time when the economy failed millions, institutions such as the press, law enforcement and the courts appeared to have been corrupted, and the answers to these problems seemed they could only be solved by revolutions either by the extreme right or the extreme left. The comparisons can be taken a little far: one character, representing the "Big Business" interests coming after the small farmers, reveals that the interests he represents wants to eventually kick the farmers off their land to not only mechanize agriculture, but also mechanize factories and warfare (I think with our fears of Artificial Intelligence, this is more a fear of our time than the 1930's).Another difference between "Deadwood" and "Damnation" is that the ruthless business interests are actively being opposed. The farmers are attempting to unionize and strike to protect themselves (though two of the main characters, who are the main labor organizers, would likely really prefer a workers revolution). Also, media like the investigative press and radio may also end up playing part in opposing "Big Business" and their enforcers. So far however, the local paper in "Damnation" is covering up the attempt to drive the small farmers off their land by price fixing and violence by strikebreakers. The USA Network provides excellent video interviews with the director and writers, who make clear this is their intent. "To understand the present, go back to the past," one of the writers says, or that the series, while set in the 1930's "Mirrors the Past (director Adam Kane)." USA also provides a couple of good mini-documentaries "Legacy of the Heartland: The One Thousand" and "Legacy of the Heartland: War of Words." The documentaries and the interviews put the characters and the action in better context, and really make this interesting, well thought out series more understandable.