Online Series Review: ‘Billy the Kid’: Thin Line Between Lawbreakers and Law Enforcers

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There were outlaws and lawmen aligned on both sides of the notorious Lincoln County War, but only one was already infamous in his day: Henry McCarty, a.k.a. William H. Bonney, a.k.a. Kid Antrim, a.k.a. Emilio Estevez in “Young Guns.” At that time in New Mexico, it was difficult tell the difference between the lawbreakers and the law-enforcers. Nobody better exemplified that ambiguity than Billy the Kid. Despite his baby-face, young McCarty endured bitter hardships and committed grave crimes well beyond his years. For a short while, McCarty manages to survive the frontier, as he finds his way to Lincoln County, where he must eventually make a fateful choice, in creator Michael Hirst’s eight-episode “Billy the Kid.” ...

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