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You have to keep two things in mind when watching this 6 disc series:

1. It was filmed in the late 1970's. Technology, make up, and acting are different now.

2. It is not the book. It has to take a lot of short cuts to fit on 6 discs.


That said. It is a solid effort to capture Michener's book, which I have read twice. The first disc does drag a bit and Robert Conrad's fake french accent is annoying at best. The woman playing his white wife is simply terrible and overly melodramatic. But then again her lines are usually awful. But at least the story is interesting and a good setup for the next several discs and the heart of the story.

Up until the last disc the story moves along pretty well. It established several main characters whom you become involved with. Action and writing is pretty good. Yeah, some hokey dialogue and bad aging make up. But I can accept those as 70's film making.

The last disc is simply atrocious. They zip through the 20th century in a rush. I lost track of who was who and found that I didn't really care because the characters were so poorly developed. Decades and generations of people are simply ignored. Then they plop us down into 1976 and I am basically lost.

Andy Griffith, David Janssen, Merle Haggard,and whomever plays the blond reporter are all terrible in their parts. Fifty percent of the last episode is recap which I had to fast forward through. Then it abruptly ends with Merle Haggard singing and more flashbacks. That's the best part of the last episode.

There are some funny and dated moments reminding some of us of what TV quality consisted of in the 70's. Melodramatic acting, over acting, really unconvincing aging as far as makeup and acting, awful acting by several people who have heart attacks, non sensible time jumps. But in all, a pretty fun series. Just do yourself a favor and skip the last disc.Get more detail about Centennial: The Complete Series.

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