‘On Swift Horses' is a mixed bag of eros and agita in 1950s California
So it is with 'On Swift Horses,' an adaptation of Shannon Pufahl's 2019 novel from Daniel Minahan, whose résumé in series TV includes episodes of 'Deadwood,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'True Blood' and many others. A steamy slow boil of a drama about queerness, sexual and otherwise, beneath the stifling surface of 1950s America, the movie generates a fair amount of heat while hanging some talented actors out to dry.
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