This series could be enjoyable, if there wasn't the constant overacting of Terri Garber as the female villain. Her permanent change from smiles to mischief in her facial expression seems to have no end. Even David Carradine is a likeable character in comparison to her. Garbers' dilettantism spoils the merits of North & South. Terri Garber earns an award for the worst acting in American TV. And the directors are to be taken into responsibility for not avoiding the crudest clichés of malignity and intrigue. This applies to Book I as well as to Book II. And by the way, talking about clichés: the depiction of the revolutionary Virginia should at least now be regarded as denunciatory. Only American "patriots" find it necessary to have her steel silver. Imagine a film in which a fighter against Putin is characterized like this woman in opposition to slavery.
Review of North and South, Book II
