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Critic Consensus: Headlined by Robert Duvall's sublimely rowdy performance, Lonesome Dove brings Larry McMurtry's beloved book to resounding life in an epic treatment that broadens the possibilities of what the silver screen is capable of.
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as Augustus `Gus' McCrae
as Woodrow F. Call
as Joshua Deets
as Dish Boggett
as Clara Allen
as July Johnson
as Elmira
as Lorena Wood
as Luke
as Blue Duck
as Janey
as Newt Dobbs
as Jimmy Rainey
as Roscoe Brown
as Jake Spoon
as Pea Eye Parker
Critic Reviews for Lonesome Dove: Miniseries
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It is, simply, unforgettable television drama, proof that the medium at its best is the equal of any other.
The show has enough emotional peaks and valleys to mirror a silhouette of the Rocky Mountains. Tommy Lee Jones, Anjelica Huston, Diane Lane and Ricky Schroder all do excellent work, and Robert Duvall earns a guaranteed Emmy.
This is superb TV entertainment and a major video achievement.
Pokey, jokey, smokey, but never hokey, Lonesome Dove is like the longest story anyone ever told you over a campfire, a sustained anecdote about the Old West that's probably the most purely enjoyable miniseries ever made.
Even if following 2,600 cattle and two pigs on a 2,500-mile march to Montana isn't your idea of fun, you'll want to saddle up for Lonesome Dove, a magnificent tapestry of thundering herds, Big Sky sunsets, cowboy camaraderie and tumbleweed pathos.
Even in television, miracles do happen. Such an event is the faithful adaptation of Larry McMurtry's superb novel Lonesome Dove, which CBS has turned into an exquisite eight-hour miniseries of epic dimension that can easily be considered a TV masterpiece.
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