What to watch: “Lawmen: Bass Reeves”

Mickey Starling reporter3.riverbendnews@gmail.com I grew up in the right era for good westerns. John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson and Yul Brenner were familiar faces on the big screen, always ready to start a barroom brawl with someone. With such talent setting the standard for me, I’m hard to please when a western-themed flick rides across the screen. The latest production to fill this time-tested genre is “Lawmen: Bass Reeves,” currently streaming on Paramount+. Before the grammar police saddle up over the title, the series is planned as an anthology that will highlight other lawmen from the old west, thus the plural form of “lawman.” The show is produced by the ta