{"id":498722,"date":"2022-10-05T18:30:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-walker-independence-review-cws-western-prequel-of-jared-padalecki\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T18:30:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:30:45","slug":"watch-walker-independence-review-cws-western-prequel-of-jared-padalecki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-walker-independence-review-cws-western-prequel-of-jared-padalecki\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Walker: Independence&#8217; Review: CW&#8217;s Western Prequel of Jared Padalecki"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23a1ea46f31\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23a1ea46f31\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-walker-independence-review-cws-western-prequel-of-jared-padalecki\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Walker_Independence_Review_CWs_Western_Prequel_of_Jared_Padalecki%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Walker: Independence&#8217; Review: CW&#8217;s Western Prequel of Jared Padalecki&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-walker-independence-review-cws-western-prequel-of-jared-padalecki\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Walker_Independence_Review_CWs_Western_Prequel_of_Jared_Padalecki%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Walker: Independence&#8217; Review: CW&#8217;s Western Prequel of Jared Padalecki&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Walker_Independence_Review_CWs_Western_Prequel_of_Jared_Padalecki%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Walker: Independence&#8217; Review: CW&#8217;s Western Prequel of Jared Padalecki&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Walker_Independence_Review_CWs_Western_Prequel_of_Jared_Padalecki%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Walker: Independence&#8217; Review: CW&#8217;s Western Prequel of Jared Padalecki&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In January 2021, the Jared Padalecki-starring and executive-produced \u201cWalker, Texas Ranger\u201d reboot (simply titled \u201cWalker\u201d) premiered as a new hit for The CW. Perhaps not quite infiltrating pop culture the same way as \u201cRiverdale\u201d had, still, it found success as a family and crime drama. The show was soon renewed for a second season, and is about to start its third. In the process of that success, naturally, the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> was able to go the spinoff route \u2014 making this CW fall season two-for-two for spinoffs on Padalecki-associated vehicles, as the \u201cSupernatural\u201d prequel \u201cThe Winchesters\u201d is also premiering soon, and he\u2019s an executive producer on \u201cWalker: Independence.\u201d But the most interesting aspect of both of these spinoffs is that they specifically see value not in telling concurrent or future stories of the characters, but instead going back to the past, in prequel form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    For \u201cWalker: Independence,\u201d it\u2019s difficult not to look at it and see it as The CW\u2019s attempt at trying its own spin on what Taylor Sheridan has had great success in with his \u201cYellowstone\u201d-verse (with prequels in the form of \u201c1883\u201d and the upcoming \u201c1923\u201d). Where \u201cWalker\u201d has contemporary cowboys and Texan pride, there\u2019s just something to seeing old-school cowboys on TV, swigging whiskey while breaking both hearts and the law. Even before the recent departure of Mark Pedowitz as network CEO, The CW had been in a strange place leading up to \u201cWalker: Independence,\u201d with cancellations and a new schedule that signaled a shifting in target demographic away from the female-driven and queer-friendly direction that the network had been known for, especially over the years. But despite its more male-skewing genre, as a Western, \u201cWalker: Independence\u201d is a female-driven spin-off that has a lot of the essence of plenty of CW series over the years. That essence is the type of thing that arguably makes the show worth sticking around for, even if it\u2019s not the remarkable product to come from the network or the genre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Despite its prequel status, following the ancestors of two \u201cWalker\u201d characters \u2014 widow Abigail \u201cAbby\u201d Collins, n\u00e9e Walker (Katherine McNamara), a forebear of Cordell Walker (Padalecki) and his family, and troublemaking cowboy Hoyt Rawlins (Matt Barr), a relative of Walker\u2019s late best friend Hoyt Rawlins (also Barr) \u2014 \u201cWalker: Independence\u201d tells a story that can be enjoyed and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>reciated apart from its sibling series. In fact, depending on what the audience is looking for in its Texan dramas on The CW, it can even be an either-or situation. Set in the late 1800s, \u201cWalker: Independence\u201d is a story of vengeance and retribution, as Bostonian Abby sets out to find and kill the man who murdered her husband on the way to their new life in ramshackle Independence, Texas. Gone is the nuclear family drama aspect of \u201cWalker\u201d \u2014 specifically, the <em>teen<\/em> drama, which often manages to interfere with the crime drama \u2014 as the series relies on found families that stem from new alliances, in a world full of enemies and people they never quite know whether to trust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It\u2019s a tried-and-true Western concept, with the fish-out-of-water newcomer in town working to take down the Black hat who ruined her life, and teaming with a ragtag bunch of frontier misfits, from rogue cowboys to Native Americans to local dancers who know all the town gossip. \u201cWalker: Independence\u201d definitely isn\u2019t reinventing the wheel, or even the stagecoach, with what it\u2019s doing. There are the briefest of moments when it seems like \u201cWalker: Independence\u201d is trying to do \u2014 and possibly should try to do \u2014 what shows like \u201cReign\u201d and \u201cDickinson\u201d did (and \u201cBridgerton\u201d does) for their particular period genres, instead of just retread territory that plenty of series in this genre (like the grimier \u201cHell on Wheels\u201d) have already done. However, those brief moments truly are just moments, as though the series doesn\u2019t want to rock the boat too much. But rocking the boat would at least be different from what has been seen before from Westerns on television, or at least since \u201cThe Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.\u201d Especially considering how \u201cDC\u2019s Legends of Tomorrow\u201d \u2014 a show that was part of The CW\u2019s recent bloodbath of cancellations last season \u2014 always managed to bring levity and something different to the genre whenever its band of time <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ers ended up in Old West times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Where \u201cWalker: Independence\u201d is different, though, is in its diversity, which is technically true of the era, if not the movies and shows depicting that era. The deputy of Independence is a Black man named Augustus (Philemon Chambers), aka \u201cGus,\u201d a seemingly honorable man who was passed over for the position of Sheriff. The town\u2019s Chinese laundryman and cook Kai (Lawrence Kao) knows everyone\u2019s dirty laundry (literally) and is always around at the right moment to learn even more. Then there\u2019s Calian, an Apache tracker who befriends Abby and enters into an uneasy alliance with Hoyt. \u201cWalker: Independence\u201d definitely dances around the strain of these characters making their way through this quite white town, but the question will be as the series progresses just how far it is willing to take these tensions. Of the three characters, Calian\u2019s is easily the most interesting up top, as he is the one about a character torn between two worlds, with neither one truly wanting him around. While Gus and Kai are part of the town, even with the moments when other characters treat them as less-than, Cailin is the one clear outsider. And the series relies on the outsider trio of Calian, Abby and Hoyt to drive it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The big overlap between both \u201cWalker\u201d and \u201cWalker: Independence\u201d going into this series was the \u201creturn\u201d of Matt Barr as Hoyt Rawlins. Even before \u201cWalker,\u201d Barr had popped up in just about every era of The CW. He had a turn as Peyton\u2019s crazed stalker in the third season of \u201cOne Tree Hill\u201d back in 2006; a role as Keith Van Der Woodsen (presumably, relative to William) in the attempted \u201cGossip Girl\u201d \u201880s spin-off backdoor pilot \u201cValley Girls;\u201d and appeared in one-and-dones, like cheerleading series \u201cHellcats\u201d and the military drama \u201cValor.\u201d As the charming bad boy Hoyt in \u201cWalker,\u201d it had seemed like Barr possibly found the right role on the network\u2019s new hit series, only for the character to die at the end of the first season. As \u201cWalker\u201d is a grounded CW series, it couldn\u2019t just pull what most other series on the network would\u2019ve and brought Hoyt back to life, so \u201cWalker: Independence\u201d is pretty much the workaround. As the tortured Western bad boy, Barr reveals just how practiced he is from over a decade and a half of CW shows, understanding the cadence and flow of these shows better than just about anyone else on this series other than Katie Findlay, who plays Kate, a chatty dancer who is more than meets the eye. (Comparing \u201cWalker: Independence\u201d to \u201cReign\u201d once more, every time Kate pops into frame, it\u2019s difficult not to be taken out of believing these characters are actually in this era. Kate feels the most like a character out of a Western version of \u201cReign,\u201d which is something to appreciate but is also not the show\u2019s norm.) As its lead, Katherine McNamara has the thankless role of the character whose \u201cpurity\u201d is chipped away at with every passing episode \u2014 the one who has to sully herself, which is rarely the character people latch onto in a Western. She can anchor the show, but she is not fun. And given the material, it\u2019s hard not to want to lean into the fun of \u201cWalker Independence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Despite its role as a prequel, \u201cWalker: Independence\u201d is arguably a better show for viewers who are going into it without knowing the source material. For \u201cWalker\u201d viewers, \u201cWalker: Independence\u201d definitely has plenty of Easter Eggs \u2014 but there are so many of them that looking deeper could arguably just muddle the family tree of the original. Really, it\u2019s easy to see that the \u201cWalker\u201d IP got the series greenlit, but it\u2019s not necessary to view it through that lens. But unlike \u201cWalker,\u201d \u201cWalker: Independence\u2019s\u201d action isn\u2019t weighed down by a family drama component, and that\u2019s as good a reason as any to give it a try. If you\u2019re a fan of Westerns and interested in the series, \u201cWalker: Independence\u201d hits the genre beats without trying to do anything new. If you\u2019re not a fan of Westerns and interested in the series, \u201cWalker: Independence\u201d isn\u2019t so aggressively of the genre that it\u2019s difficult to get through. And if you\u2019re a fan of The CW, \u201cWalker: Independence\u201d is ultimately fine. Much like its sibling show, it has the potential to outgrow that status, but there\u2019s no harm if it doesn\u2019t. In fact, because it\u2019s higher-concept, it actually has greater potential to outgrow just being fine. As the show makes clear, Independence is a town where no one is as they seem and everyone\u2019s trying to find themselves. The former may not actually be the case for \u201cWalker: Independence,\u201d which is pretty easy to take at face value given the genre, but the latter just might be. Because the series\u2019 connection to \u201cWalker\u201d probably isn\u2019t going to be the thing that keeps it afloat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    <em>\u201cWalker: Independence\u201d premieres Thursday, October 6 on The CW.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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