Just finished (re)watching the series on DVD from Netflix. I had forgotten just how good the series was. Another fine example of a show that was just too smart for Fox executives to understand, and a quiet fanbase the size of which wasn't known until after it was cancelled.
Where Firefly is sci-fi with a little western thrown in, Brisco was western with a little sci-fi thrown in. It's losely based in style on the old Saturday matinee seriels that used to run in theaters. Although the tone is quite different as with a lead like Bruce Campbell you get much more humor; the man is practically a living cartoon in many ways. But it never got too silly or too campy, it stayed just below that line that would be too much. Anyone who is a fan of Bruce's work with Rami and hasn't seen Brisco, well you've got something to look forward to.
It's also the last series to have been shot on the old Laramie Street set on the Warner Bros back lot that so many old western movies were shot on, so western fans will probably recognize quite a few of the locations. When the series ended, the lot was bulldozed and new sound stages were built in it's place.
9 out of 10 stars.
PS: As a side note, it was made by the same guys now behind Lost, and there's some of that "mysterious things happen and we make it up as we go along and try to tie it all together so that it looks like we knew what we were doing all along" element to some of the through lines. Specificly Bly and the Orb.
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