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Dark Winds (2022)
Not Hillerman, not even close.
The production values, acting, cinematography etc are all first rate. I guess the show would still be good in it's own right, even the way they mixed and matched details of books into this story. And I don't see why they did it but I could live with the fact that they completely changed around the characters and the sequence in which they showed up. "Little Bernie", is not little at all, and she's the one who lives in the trailer, and Chee is an almost white without a singer for an uncle, and Mrs. Leaphorn doesn't have Alzheimer's, etc. I like the actors, especially Zahn McClarnon, so I wanted to like it, but when actual witches show up, which Hillerman did not do, that's it for me. I watched the first four, and quit.
Manic (2001)
Didn't watch - everything ruined by shaky camera bs
Gimmick doesn't work, is just distracting - don't do it. Once had an architectural designer who thought he was hot stuff because he used 45 degree angles in his designs. All he actually ended up doing is drawing the whole, square building at a 45 degree angle to the paper. Made everything more difficult, not better.