Very Cool!!!

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

3 episodes in and this show is rubbish. Poorly written, paper thin characters and plot. Clichés do not make a story, and a wet and muddy set and facial stubble does not make "gritty" or believable characters.So disappointing.The only believable character is the mud... It obviously requires considerable expense to establish such sets and to film in snow and cold. The writing simply does not do justice to the story concept or the natural environment.Can anyone believe the horses breaking away from the cart as a plausible plot device in episode 3? That could have been written by a 6 year old.Casting Sam Shepard and Tim Roth caught my attention, i was curious to see what Roth would do after Lie to Me.Unfortunately this show compares poorly to Hell on Wheels, which compared poorly to the exceptional Deadwood.I am astonished at the high ratings shown for this series. What are other reviewers seeing?I am done this series, it is an insult to my intelligence as a viewer.

Very down-to-earth. Unpretentious, intelligent...pulls no punches. The re-creation of the boom town known as Dawson....the lawlessness, the dog- eat-dog mentality, the toiling and tedium as mud and rocks are shoveled as miners stake claims side-by-side in the ice-cold, slippery muck. The con men, prostitutes, thieves, murderers. Jack London depicted as a bright young man with a drinking problem. From the very first episode, you get the feeling that anything can happen...nobody is safe and there are layers to each character. The dialog seems very real...the conditions unrelenting.Dawson is an evil town...its inhabitants never at ease and stalked by disease and people driven by desperation to lie, steal, and kill.

What a fantastic story this could have been, and of course in fact actually was! But what a horrendously and stupendously horrid story this joke of a mini-series portrayed. A total discredit to what the men and women went through in the Yukon during that time. The maker of this film basically turned a real life drama in to some form of ridiculous soap opera. I put this catastrophic film right up there with the joke that James Cameron turned the Titanic in to. How can you go so wrong with a movie when the fantastic story is already written for you? Absolutely shameful for everyone involved. I very rarely review any movies, but the garbage of this film motivated me to speak out and hopefully steer people away. Or, if nothing else, then to at least provide some comfort to those who died during their time in the Klondike and who are now turning in their graves!

The show is slow moving because it is supposed it is supposed to accurate. I believe it is based on a novel by Jack London who visited the Klondike to write about it. Richard Madden is the main character and plays it well except that he hates to wear hats as a personal matter. He was a character in Game of Thrones crossing the frozen landscape and did not wear a hat. Stupid thing to put up with. That show has a powerful ending including a couple minutes of the credits but you have to watch the entire show to get the ending. My suggestion is to record it and binge watch it. remind yourself that the show is supposed to give you a snapshot of many situations that happened in the gold rush.