Reminds me of a video series that a (male) friend of mine brought me. It was James Michener's Centennial series, a saga of the early American west.

I watched it to the seond N of the series and then decided that the bits of history (whether factual or fictional) wasn't worth it because of the periodic - and wholly predictable - scenes of violence. I never did finish the series.

That may be a major difference between the typical male and the typical female: to my mind, the female wants the story and character development while the male won't hold still for too much of that, instead, he wants bloodracing moments of mayhem.