![]() ![]() Lucky for them, Austin gets stomped by a bull and dies within the first 10 minutes of the series so viewers are likely in for at least a full season of will-they-or-won’t-they between Cash and Missy, who also has her eyes on new-to-town Gus (Tyler Jacob Moore, “SEAL Team”). He returns at the top of the pilot, and it’s clear Cash and Missy have feelings for one another. Her son, Cash (Beau Mirchoff, “Now Apocalypse”), had the hots for his brother Austin’s wife, Missy (Tiera Skovbye, “Riverdale”), but then Cash left home for a while. Nancy Travis (“Last Man Standing”) stars as Isabel McMurray, matriarch of a Colorado family of bull riders. Sunday, “Ride” is another multigenerational family-focused drama with a strong female central character. Like Hallmark’s “The Way Home,” which has its first-season finale at 8 p.m. “Ride” is the latest in what’s sure to be a cascading number of Western-set dramas, all vying for a share of the attention that comes to “Yellowstone” and its spinoffs. Yes, there’s a potential romance at the show’s center, but this series has characters with more flaws, more secrets and more men with facial hair than you’ll generally find on a Hallmark Channel program. ![]() Sunday), won’t be confused with a great new drama, but it does mark another baby step forward for the cable network. Note: For a pretty good biopic about Wood, often referred to as the “worst director ever,” check out Tim Burton’s great Ed Wood, which memorably parodies Glen or Glenda.Hallmark Channel’s latest drama series, “Ride” (9 p.m. Random shots of Bela Lugosi-who was close friends with Wood-were interspersed into the action apropos of nothing, in which Lugosi yells, “Pull the strings!” ![]() Glen or Glenda (originally titled I Changed My Sex!) would be a masterpiece if Wood knew how to make a movie. He’s terrified his girlfriend will find out. Wood’s film, which was autobiographical, uses Patricia’s story as a backdrop for Glen’s struggle for acceptance: Like Patricia, Glen enjoys wearing women’s clothing. ![]() The film opens after Patricia, a transgender woman, has taken her own life, citing years of harassment. Two years after Christine Jorgensen became the first transgender woman to transition in the public eye, Wood’s groundbreaking 1953 feature explores the difficulties of being trans in pre-Stonewall America. ever made, Glen or Glenda is both brilliantly transgressive and unbelievably terrible. ![]()
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