After reading the scathing reviews, I was curious to see this episode. I didn't think it was so bad, found it rather entertaining!
4 Reviews
Better than I expected
SusanJL6 September 2021
Far From The Best
savanna-212 July 2016
Warning: Spoilers
All good things have to come to an end and the includes the beloved series The Rifleman. A story that would have gotten a different treatment earlier in the series, possibly steeped in Eastern mysticism, now plays out as a broad and mostly insulting caricature.
The townspeople are juvenile bullies. Snickering and acting a fool. I can only remember one other episode where the townsfolk are this embarrassing and that's the episode where someone sends off for a mail order bride as a smart pants trick on Lucas.
All the silliness has to do with a the servant of a rich Japanese businessman visiting America. The townfools pull out Every dull cliché in the book, from actually tripping the man, oops, to making misogynist comments about the male businessman being treated like womenfolk by his servant. Of course the third grade insults wouldn't be complete until some comments are thrown in about their yellow skin, shanty eyes and small stature. I did say this episode is an embarrassment and I meant it.
Now, if the above isn't enough to turn you off, an American actor of Italian descent, heavily made up to play the part of one of the two visiting Japanese, should do it. Unfortunate isn't the word for it.
Don't get me started on Lou. What small amount of charm Patricia Blair exhibited early on is completely gone in the episode. Her broad over emphasized Irish accent gives the Italian Japanese a run for the money.
Mark is far to old for the wide eyed "oh PA" stuff. This episode he's acting like a 10 yr old. The next episode he's asking Lucas for a hand gun. Very uneven and disappointing. This one episode could sour a first time viewer on the whole series.
The townspeople are juvenile bullies. Snickering and acting a fool. I can only remember one other episode where the townsfolk are this embarrassing and that's the episode where someone sends off for a mail order bride as a smart pants trick on Lucas.
All the silliness has to do with a the servant of a rich Japanese businessman visiting America. The townfools pull out Every dull cliché in the book, from actually tripping the man, oops, to making misogynist comments about the male businessman being treated like womenfolk by his servant. Of course the third grade insults wouldn't be complete until some comments are thrown in about their yellow skin, shanty eyes and small stature. I did say this episode is an embarrassment and I meant it.
Now, if the above isn't enough to turn you off, an American actor of Italian descent, heavily made up to play the part of one of the two visiting Japanese, should do it. Unfortunate isn't the word for it.
Don't get me started on Lou. What small amount of charm Patricia Blair exhibited early on is completely gone in the episode. Her broad over emphasized Irish accent gives the Italian Japanese a run for the money.
Mark is far to old for the wide eyed "oh PA" stuff. This episode he's acting like a 10 yr old. The next episode he's asking Lucas for a hand gun. Very uneven and disappointing. This one episode could sour a first time viewer on the whole series.
One of the poorest offerings in the series.
kfo94947 June 2014
After watching it is apparent that the writing has slipped so far that it was best that this was the last season for the series. In this offering we have a story that should have been trashed as two Japenesse travelers decide to spend the night in the lovely tourist town of North Fork when befriended by Lucas and Mark McCain.
While in North Fork the two Asian men are picked-on by two wild cowboys which will lead to a fight on the dusty street of the town. But it will not be a regular gun-fight that is a norm in North Fork but will be cowboy's fist taking on Asian karate moves. You can guess what transpires.
This story is not interesting in the least- not to mention the terrible stereotype (stated by another reviewer) and a plot that is unrealistic. All series will have a clunker from time-to-time but it seems, as the season progresses, that the series is losing its edge. And in this episode the edge is not in sight.
While in North Fork the two Asian men are picked-on by two wild cowboys which will lead to a fight on the dusty street of the town. But it will not be a regular gun-fight that is a norm in North Fork but will be cowboy's fist taking on Asian karate moves. You can guess what transpires.
This story is not interesting in the least- not to mention the terrible stereotype (stated by another reviewer) and a plot that is unrealistic. All series will have a clunker from time-to-time but it seems, as the season progresses, that the series is losing its edge. And in this episode the edge is not in sight.
Yellowface
mad-kawano5 May 2020
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