Rating: - Very enjoyable... many loose ends...
I am not particularly a western fan, but I do love Lonesome Dove the movie. Both "The Series" and "The Outlaw Years" were very engrossing and very enjoyable. For the most part, the stories and the characters carry you easily through spots of mediocre acting and directing and some, um, unusual filmmaking. The two series are quite different in tone and attitude. I let my seven year old watch "The Series", but not "The Outlaw Years" because of the increase in violence and change in the general mood.

You don't get to find out what happens at the end of "The Series" until the first episode of "The Outlaw Years". It seems they intentionally left it open-ended to keep their options open.

Then "The Outlaw Years" doen't 'end' at all. It just stops. Many developing threads are left hanging. It is as if it got cancelled mid-season.

Lastly, the DVD production is less than stellar. The navigation is strange and the numbering and labeling on the DVDs is inconsistent or non-existent, but nothing that can't be worked out.

Bottom line: Sometimes odd in its production, but completely worth watching.