https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35045308/
Born to be Alive is a Chinese drama set in the 1990s, a Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region depended heavily on farming and livestock, sinking into poverty. A nearby uninhabited zone with minerals and wildlife attracted poachers and illegal miners.
There’s probably another neo-Western American series that this is more similar to than Longmire. My first thought is the series of thriller novels by CJ Box, Joe Pickett, which I understand to be about a game warden fighting murderous poachers. But Longmire is more well-known, so I felt that would better serve the joke.
There’s a linked playlist that has some (all?) episodes on YouTube but it is geo-blocked in Amerikkka. However I easily found it on pirate streaming sites, with much better subtitles than the auto-translated version provided by YouTube.
It’s only a matter of time before they have their own Yellowstone. American neo-Westerns will never catch up. Sheridanism with Chinese Characteristics.
Is there a context to this scene that explains why they all look so clean and immaculately presented while sitting in this sand ditch? Everyone looks like they just visited the hairdressers and got a trim and style on the same day.
It’s a lot easier to do wardrobe continuity if the outfits and the people are clean. Saves a lot of money and time as well.
There’s clean and then there’s completely and totally brand new off the rack at the store. I don’t like it, even soaps like Eastenders have characters that look and feel more like everyday people to me so I don’t believe it’s a budget thing. All their clothes look like they were just bought, not even worn and washed twice.
It happens in some Western shows too (of course I can’t think of any examples off the top of my head. Is live action One Piece western? Idk haven’t watched it) and I don’t know why. Like that guy isn’t a pirate wearing clothing, he’s an actor wearing a newly-purchased pirate costume.
Budget is probably the reason but idk the inner workings of media. Pay costume designers enough to make my slop believable!
I admit their dialectical materialism is very advanced, but it is NOT indistinguishable from magic.
