Broken Trail: Season 1
  • Network: AMC
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 24, 2006
  • Season #: 1 , 2
Metascore
78 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    88
    Any fan of Westerns, or of Duvall, will not be disappointed if this "Trail" is followed.
  2. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Diane Werts
    90
    This four-hour gem is exquisite from start to finish, rife with the texture of its place and time, rich with human understanding expressed in everyday articulation and small gestures.
  3. San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times
    Reviewed by: Charlie McCollum
    90
    The finest purely American TV film to come along in some time.
  4. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Gloria Goodale
    100
    This elegant, shaggy dog of a 19th-century western takes us on a painfully human journey across the old West.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    91
    If it weren't for the commercials and basic-cable cutaways from some violence, you'd swear you were watching a classic Western. [23 Jun 2006, p.66]
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User Score
8.6 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 48 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 39 out of 42
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 42
  3. Negative: 1 out of 42
  1. BernhardW
    10
    wonderfull epic film adventure.. Story great, pictures wonderfull, and people so much to love. thats the stuff keeping sole up. regards bernd
  2. HenryE
    10
    It's a beautiful and moving film, a masterpiece. Robert Duvall is truley a great actor.
  3. JuanaG.
    10
    When will BROKEN TRAIL with ROBERT DUVALL air again and on which CHANNEL?
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