LONESOME DOVE with Rain Bennett

A six-hour Western sounds like a hard sell until you meet characters that feel more real than people you know. I sit down with filmmaker and author Rain Bennett to talk about Lonesome Dove, the classic 1989 miniseries based on Larry McMurtry’s novel, and why it keeps pulling him back every four or five years. The hook is not the cattle drive or the frontier spectacle. It’s the friendship, the humor, the ache of loyalty, and the way Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call embody two clashing approach...