The Big Picture As one of the most influential Westerns in the genre's history, it's unsurprising that The Magnificent Seven has received its fair share of sequels and spin-offs. In fact, the original 1960 film was a remake of the Japanese film Seven Samurai.
There are some major changes made to The Magnificent Seven right off the bat that separate this interpretation from previous ventures. Trading in southwestern bandits for a Confederate militia and Mexican villagers for a tribe of Seminole Indians is only the tip of that iceberg. But once you get past the first adventure, there's plenty more where that came from.
Ron Perlman's Josiah, for example, is a preacher prone to violence. With a dark past, we eventually discover that his father was a missionary, and that drove a wedge between them. The episode "Penance," one of the last produced episodes of the series, further develops him well beyond the stock religious character in the group.
While many modern takes on the Western have become serialized or tell their narrative in a short breath of time, this CBS classic extends the world of The Magnificent Seven so that we feel as if time has passed and every day offers new possibilities. No, this isn't a perfect series.
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