![]() ![]() My principal objection to the TV series is that despite a good cast, picturesque locale and laudable intentions, it feels totally bogus, from the accents to the grime on the children’s faces. ![]() I have not read the book, but apparently it is much beloved. The series is based on Catherine Marshall’s novel about a city girl who volunteers to teach at a missionary school in Cutter Gap, Tenn., in a remote pocket of the Appalachian Mountains. But it’s going to take more than inebriated hogs to save the show’s bacon for me. I did like the scene where marauding pigs got into the white lightning hidden under the floorboards of the school by moonshiner Bird’s Eye Taylor. Look, I’m all for more wholesome family fare in prime time, but sitting through the first two episodes of Christy was like being hooked up to an intravenous drip of Karo syrup. The girl’s first word was – you guessed it – “buttons.” The buttons Christy sewed on her hopeless coat. ![]()
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