Fire Country

This storyline has more places to go than I could count. Complications, opportunities for tension, both slow-growing and the blow-up kind, several interesting characters, and dynamic scenery.

Fire country is another throwback to the time where dramas were developed and built around the theme of family. Our times have changed, but the human desire for closeness hasn't.

Max Thieriot brings a lot to the palate. The part requires depth of character, but his athleticism adds the required realism as well. I've always liked Billy Burke and Dinae Farr. There complicated relationship, with each other, and Bodie, will add conflict and interest as this series develops.

My only gripe is that Hollywood stuck it's nose into this one and included the 'check this box' character that's completely unnecessary. Adding characters because of what they are, not who they are, is the current trend, but that's not storytelling, that's not creative, that's filling an artificial requirement. One star deducted for allowing political correctness to hold sway over creativity.