Comanche Moon is a television miniseries that is an adaptation of the novel of the same name

Comanche Moon

Comanche Moon is a 1997 western novel by Larry McMurtry. It is the fourth and final book published in the Lonesome Dove series, but the second installment in terms the chronology of the narrative.-Plot introduction:...

. It aired on CBS beginning Sunday, January 13, and continuing Tuesday, January 15, and Wednesday, January 16, 2008.

Cast

• Val Kilmer
  Val Kilmer
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    as Inish Scull
• Steve Zahn
  Steve Zahn
  -Early life:Zahn was born in Marshall, Minnesota, the son of Zelda, who worked for the YMCA, and Carleton E. Zahn, a retired Missouri Synod Lutheran pastor. Zahn spent part of his childhood in Mankato, Minnesota, attending Kennedy Elementary School...
  
   as Augustus McCrae
• Karl Urban
  Karl Urban
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   as Woodrow F. Call
  Woodrow F. Call
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• David Midthunder as Famous Shoes
• Linda Cardellini
  Linda Cardellini
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   as Clara Forsythe
  Clara Forsythe Allen
  Clara Forsythe Allen is a fictional character who appears in the Lonesome Dove series. The novels were written in a different order than the chronology of the narratives: Lonesome Dove , Streets of Laredo , Dead Man's Walk , and Comanche Moon .-Dead Man's Walk:Clara makes her first chronological...
  
  
• Elizabeth Banks
  Elizabeth Banks
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   as Maggie
• Rachel Griffiths
  Rachel Griffiths
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   as Inez Scull
• Ryan Merriman
  Ryan Merriman
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   as Jake Spoon
  Jake Spoon
  Jake Spoon is a fictional Texas Ranger appearing in two books of the Lonesome Dove series.-Comanche Moon:Jake's first chronological appearance in the books is in Comanche Moon, which was actually the last book published. Though Jake is a member of the Rangers as the book begins, he is not on the...
  
  
• Ray McKinnon
  Ray McKinnon (actor)
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   as Bill Coleman
• Keith Robinson
  Keith Robinson (actor)
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   as Joshua Deets
• Wes Studi
  Wes Studi
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   as Buffalo Hump
• Adam Beach
  Adam Beach
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   as Blue Duck
• James Rebhorn
  James Rebhorn
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   as Gov. Elisha Pease
• Jake Busey
  Jake Busey
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   as Tudwal
• Melanie Lynskey
  Melanie Lynskey
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   as Pearl Coleman
• Sal Lopez as Ahumado
• Norbert Leo Butz
  Norbert Leo Butz
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   as Capt. Richard King
• Indira Varma
  Indira Varma
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   as Therese Wanz
• Kristine Sutherland
  Kristine Sutherland
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   as Elmira Forsythe
• Toby Metcalf as Ranger Lee Hitch
• Troy Baker
  Troy Baker
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   as Pea Eye Parker
• Jeremy Ratchford
  Jeremy Ratchford
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   as Charles Goodnight
  Charles Goodnight
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• Brad Johnson
  Brad Johnson (actor)
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   as Col. Tom Soult

Reception

The series received generally negative reviews from critics. Brian Lowry from Variety

Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...

called it "tedious, at times cartoonishly bad".