You won't be disappointed!

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I may have a man crush on Momoa so this might be bias but I stumbled on this gem and can't believe that season 3 wasn't made. The acting was pretty solid, writing was really good. I don't usually watch basic cable shows because they come off pretty corny but there were very few of those moments and got pretty tricky in season 2. I didn't know it was canceled until i was almost finished watching season 2, which made it freaking horrible that i got emotionally attached for no fudging reason. Still, was great show

LOVED this show! I applaud Sundance for bringing it to us but detest how they screwed it and us over by handling this gem so poorly. Ever heard of supporting and advertising a quality show?! They had the guts to try the series but not enough balls to support it!!Extremely disappointed that because of Sundance there aren't more episodes! The Red Road had superb acting, great story- so much going for it. Some of Jason Momoa's best work to date!! He brought layers of depth to Phillip Kopus that made the audience root for him even when he was doing bad things! Within The Red Road was the whole gray area between good and bad and what motivates people and the mental and emotional anguish...Great work by the principals and supporting characters. It had action but was about people and relationships, actions and consequences and the ugly way people can treat one another. It was intriguing and captivating. You've got an incredible cast including Martin Henderson,Julianne Nicholson,Tamara Tunie,Mike Farrell and Tom Sizemore bringing compelling characters to life. I recommend this show to people all the time!

I was extremely optimistic about this show. I'm always up for a small town drama. Sundance brought us "Rectify" and that show is a masterpiece. I am only 2 episodes in, but the acting is just plain awful. The main characters are still developing and the dialogue is fairly strong but it is being demolished by this terrible cast. Perhaps it is poor direction? Jason Momoa was great in Game of Thrones... because he merely had to look pretty. His acting here (thus far) is empty and shallow. His style is reminiscent of Paul Walker's contrived and self-aware, clumsy delivery. He hides behind an annoying smirk every single time he delivers a line with any weight. I'm sure the idea is to appear ominous and scary but it comes off as amateurish and annoying. I know we're not allowed to discuss race anymore in society but I have a very hard time seeing a German-Hawaiian mixed man portray a Native American.I'll give Martin Henderson a temporary pass because his character so far seems a bit bland (so I don't think he has much to work with) but he certainly doesn't stand out in this gang of duds. Julianne Nicholson (as Jean) is atrocious. I feel completely removed from each dramatic scene involving her. Instead of being enveloped in Jean's despair, Julianne has me picturing her standing in front of the mirror practicing her lines... never finding a comfortable/ natural way to deliver them. Again though, I'm only 2 episodes in.Allie Gonino as Rachel makes me cringe. I feel embarrassed for her. Kiowa Gordon seems to be reading his lines off a tele-prompter. I wanted so badly to skip over the scenes between them. Clumsy, dispassionate and awkward. As is every scene involving Gordon.Annalise Basso does a great job as the younger daughter but her role thus far is small and not nearly enough to redeem the others.All of that being said, I'm going to watch a couple more episodes and hope for improvement.

OK, I'm hooked. Like other reviewers, I like the slow, brooding intensity of the plot and the gradual peeling back of the characters' personalities. At the core of the plot are universal themes of love and betrayal; good and evil and that things are not as they appear. In the beginning, it's pretty clear who's the bad guy and who's the good guy – even the characters themselves have made up their minds about what happened to Jean's brother. But Jean's descent into mental illness and Harold's efforts to protect her from herself parallels the blurring of people's perception and reality. I was a fan of Julianne Nicholson from August Osage County and Masters of Sex, but I have to say that Jason Momoa (as Phillip) and Martin Henderson (as Harold) are both superb. In the beginning, the former is a scary sociopath (one look from him and you'd kiss your remaining days goodbye); the latter is the penultimate squeaky clean cop and good dad, trying to hold his family together. Then the truth begins to reveal itself and by episode six, the definitions of "good" and "evil" are no longer so clear cut and you're not so sure about what you thought you knew. What is clear is that people do extraordinary things to protect themselves and the people they love. I can't wait for Season 2.