In 'Saints & Strangers,' a noble attempt to tell Thanksgiving's grimmer truths

Thanksgiving arrives just in time to remind us that we're all pretty much strangers here, in one or way another, even the people hollering about closing the door to newcomers.National Geographic Channel's sullen but entertaining two-night miniseries "Saints & Strangers" (premiering Sunday) earnestly underlines our most American principle, telling a warts-and-all story of that hodgepodge of passengers on the rickety English ship known as the Mayflower. They washed ashore in Massachusetts in the f...