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For those of you with Spectrum Cable TV, check out the Spectrum Original Series, Joe Pickett. It is a 10 part series made up of about hour long shows. It apparently came out last year, but I just heard about it last week. I watched the trailer and thought it might be interesting.

It is about a game warden named Joe Pickett. Pickett is the main character, but has a nice family that makes for interesting characters. The fictional character is based on a real character from Cody. ... Such is the life of Joe Pickett, the game warden and central character in a series of best selling books written by Wyoming author C.J. Box.

I watched the first 2 episodes on Monday night, 2 more on Tuesday, and then binged watched the final 6 tonight. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I would give it an 8.5 out of 10. BTW, it takes place in Wyoming and includes some S&W revolvers, as well as, lever action rifles. I won't give out any spoilers. Check it out!
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Interesting. I‘ve enjoyed most of the Pickett books.

C. J. Box has apparently been busy selling rights to screen adaptations. Sometime last year I watched several episodes of a show, don‘t remember the channel, called “Big Sky”, based on his non-Pickett novel “The Highway”. Not bad, but that is Box’s darkest book, and the story had been too sanitized for TV.
 
Absalom said:
Interesting. I‘ve enjoyed most of the Pickett books.

C. J. Box has apparently been busy selling rights to screen adaptations. Sometime last year I watched several episodes of a show, don‘t remember the channel, called “Big Sky”, based on his non-Pickett novel “The Highway”. Not bad, but that is Box’s darkest book, and the story had been too sanitized for TV.
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Yeah, when I saw the previews for the "Big Sky" series, I thought it might have promise. I watched the first 2-3 episodes and that was all I could take. Very disappointing to me.
Larry
 
Stumbled on Pickett a couple of months ago and really liked it. Ended up binge-watching the whole series in a week’s time.

The series is really pretty well done, with interesting characters, plot, and direction. I really like movies and shows with beautiful settings/backdrops, and this series had that, too.
 
I watched all episodes. I'd give it a solid 8 out of 10.

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C. J. Box at one time came to the gym where I also worked out. For an accomplished writer, he is just folks. Very humble, quiet, and expects no special consideration. I have read all his books.

A friend of mine, also a published author, asked me if I knew C. J. I replied, "Know him? Hell, I've seen him naked!"

I hope his TV series is a success as I think he deserves it more than the author of the Longmire series which grossly misrepresents Wyoming.
 
Just heard about it a week or so ago on a Paramount / Paramount Plus teaser. Apparently Paramount will be airing it soon if they haven’t already started to. I’m a Spectrum customer and have, in the meantime, gotten 3 episodes in. Seems to get a little better each one.

I’ve read the first of the novels but now want to revisit the book series.

Gun nerd time: what’s our favorite Game Warden packing - looks like a Model 66, perhaps?
 
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Gun nerd time: what’s our favorite Game Warden packing - looks like a Model 66, perhaps?
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Can Joe Pickett actually shoot in the show?

One of the annoying things in the book series (besides his mother-in-law) is this shtick he’s got going about not being able to hit anything with a handgun, so he carries a shotgun when needed.
 
Absalom said:
Interesting. I‘ve enjoyed most of the Pickett books.

C. J. Box has apparently been busy selling rights to screen adaptations. Sometime last year I watched several episodes of a show, don‘t remember the channel, called “Big Sky”, based on his non-Pickett novel “The Highway”. Not bad, but that is Box’s darkest book, and the story had been too sanitized for TV.
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I read that book and it soured me on him for quite a while. To dig 14' unnoticed holes in a valley with 16"-30" boulders, bury a truck and have it all unnoticed over night is a stretch Marvel Comics doesn't extend to. Did he really think no one would notice the lights and noise over a road that averages more than a car a minute all hours of the day? I don't know if he checked out Livingston or just saw where it was on the map but was really disappointed.
 
The star, Michael Dorman, stars in another Netflix series called "The Patriot."

If you enjoy watching him you may also like him in "Patriot." It went two seasons.

It's a dark and quirky comic/drama about a troubled CIA agent.

Funny, but very dark humor at times.
 
I read and enjoy the books, BUT the inability to use a handgun is ridiculous. Not carrying a handgun in his job could cost him his life. Of course he does have a buddy who is a killer to help him out when the poachers get rough.
 
Der Verminator said:
The star, Michael Dorman, stars in another Netflix series called "The Patriot."

If you enjoy watching him you may also like him in "Patriot." It went two seasons.

It's a dark and quirky comic/drama about a troubled CIA agent.

Funny, but very dark humor at times.
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What a great show. My son is also a fan and I just got this shirt to give him at Christmas.
 

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