Wow. I just watched the six clips from “The Path to 9/11″ posted on RedState. They embedded all six Quicktime movies on one page, which made for a gargantuan download. I almost gave up on it, but I’m glad I waited.

There was about one boring minute, of Harvey Keitel sitting in a restaurant making chit-chat. But the rest was superb television. I’m telling you, I was riveted.

Of course, it doesn’t mean the actual televised show will be as good. I have a hunch that the parts I enjoyed on RedState will be the very ones edited out of the broadcast. And even if they aren’t taken out, the whole show — which Variety called “scattered and a little plodding,” and “clunky” — is five hours long. For all I know, I might have just seen all the good bits.

UPDATE: The Pajamas Media reviewer, on the other hand, didn’t even like these clips:

Trite, ham-handed, and drenched in bathos, it’s like watching a 9/11 soap opera staged by the village idiot and performed by actors passed over for roles as extras in “The Children of the Corn V.” The only difference being that the corn here is actually higher than an elephant’s eye.

I daresay he missed the point; for me, the ham-handed idiots only added to the verisimilitude.