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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
is television at its most charming and original: a gently feminist,
19th-century Western with mythic overtones, a Gunsmoke-like vision of
small-town constancy and an audacious love story that might best be described
as Buckskin Bronte. British actress Jane Seymour scrubbed away her accent to
play Michaela Quinn, fifth daughter of a well-to-do Boston physician who
encouraged her to get a medical degree despite social obstacles. The headstrong Quinn moves to rough-and-tumble Colorado Springs to set up a
practice, faces stiff resistance from the locals, witnesses the brutality of
white America's expansionism, and generally experiences a classic Western
transformation from privilege to pioneering. Along the way, Quinn makes a
heartfelt connection with the mysterious Sully (Joe Lando), a laconic
outsider/cowboy-knight-errant/widower preserving his broken heart. |
