("Heaven and Hell" airs Sunday, Monday and Wednesday nights from 8-10 p.m. The only improvement of any kind in "Part III" is that, mercifully, it's only six hours long. The intervening years have not been kind. "North & South Part II" returned with the same huge cast of characters and followed them through the war itself.Īnd, eight years later, they're back and it's Reconstruction. The first followed the families of a pair of West Point cadets - Northerner George Hazard (James Read) and Southerner Orry Main (Patrick Swayze) and the events leading up to the Civil War. You may recall the first two "North & South" miniseries, which ran for a total of 24 hours in 19. Imagine "Gone With the Wind" meets "Melrose Place" - with a big tilt toward the latter - and you've got some idea of how truly awful "Heaven and Hell" is.īad writing. There's precious little "Heaven" in the latest installment in the "North & South" saga, but a whole lot of "Hell."Īs a matter of fact, "John Jakes' Heaven and Hell: North & South Part III" is one hellaciously bad miniseries.(And that's not even taking into account its crushingly cumbersome title.)
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