Burns' new four-hour PBS doc studies the species' symbolism, its brutal near-extinction and the complicated and sometimes heroic struggle to bring the buffalo back.
The Twitter brouhaha passed so quickly — debate in the realm of Elon Musk has gone from something already ephemeral to barely a fart in the wind — that there wasn’t even an opportunity for Burns’ latest PBS offering to capitalize on the buzz. It’s a pity, becauseapproaches a topic of high drama in a somewhat minor key; it’s a complicated documentary of not-too-distant melancholy and not-too-celebratory inspiration.
There’s something unsettling about the fact that Burns has chosen to use buffalo as a way to piggyback onto a documentary about Native Americans; the result becomes only a very, very cursory history or sociological study of a very, very limited piece of a story. Of course, in 2023, if Ken Burns had attempted to make a full documentary about Native Americans, somebody would have rightly asked, “Is Ken Burns really the best person to do that?”, it’s only “some.
Over the last two hours, Burns presents a dynamic cast of characters, some already iconic and some newly fascinating, who worked to save the buffalo. It was a discordant assortment of agendas, some purely altruistic and some driven by an uncomfortably nationalistic spirit, that laid the foundation for the conservation movement and many of the elements depicted in much more depth in.
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