![]() ![]() “Upon my father’s death, my mother wrote to my father’s brother, begging that he bring his family to these wild lands and save hers. Only one would carry the fate of this family through the Depression and every other hell the 20th century hurled at them. “Only one would live to see their own children grow. “My father had three children,” the late Elsa says in her voiceover. His death left Margaret Dutton (Faith Hill), Elsa’s mother, alone with her two sons in a harsh wilderness. Jake Dutton (Tim McGraw) apparently died from the gunshot wound he received in a flashback on YS while running down some cattle thieves. ![]() Jack Dutton and several of the other ranchers still carry Colt SAA revolvers, which would have been getting on in years at the time. In fact, several things in the first two eps of 1923 echo events and moments from the current season of YS, and it most assuredly isn’t an accident. It also provides some grim prognostication for the present-day Duttons. The narration continues, and we learn what happened to the Duttons from 1883. And where it doesn’t follow, we hunt it down. Lurking beneath the pines and in the rivers. Devoured us upon the battlefields of Shiloh and Antietam. Stranded us on the beaches of New Jersey. It ravaged us on the coffin ships of Ireland. “It followed us from the Scottish highlands and the slums of Dublin. “Violence has always haunted this family,” the narration begins in the familiar voice of Elsa Dutton (Isabel May), the protagonist and narrator of the prequel series 1883: A Yellowstone Origin Story that aired last year. He raised them as his own and took my father’s dream – and made it into an empire. “A year later, he arrived to find my mother frozen in a snow drift her two boys half-starved and barely able to speak. Cara is faster she fires a barrel, ending the confrontation, and lets out an anguished cry to the empty forest. At the click, he frantically resumes reloading his pistol while she breaks her shotgun and does the same. “What do you know about Heaven?” she asks before pulling the trigger - on an empty chamber. ![]() She has blood dripping from a wound on her head, and a leather hunting satchel slung across her body full of brass shotgun shells.Īs she comes up on him, the wounded man begins to plead with her frantically in a thick Irish accent, telling her that if she kills him, her soul will be barred from Heaven. The first ep opens in media res with the current matriarch of the ranching family, Cara Dutton (Helen Mirren), firing a side-by-side shotgun at a scrambling man struggling to reload a top-break Webley Mark VI revolver. Let’s take a quick look at the first two episodes and why this series is a must-watch.Ĭara Dutton, in the opening scene of Ep.1, takes care of business with a hammerless side-by-side as her enemy attempts to reload his Webley revolver. Word is this initial eight-episode run will be followed by a second eight-ep series to conclude the story. It’s not like we went to one little preserve in South Africa.” You know how hard it is to move a crew around in Africa in 2022 with Covid, and all the rules and all the politics? We were in four countries in Africa. “In other words, you saw six thousand sheep, three thousand cattle, and as this show keeps going, you’re in Africa. “It’s the Lawrence of Arabia ,” Sheridan said in an interview with Deadline. The show better do well, considering it costs a whopping $22 million per episode to produce. A new episode drops every week, and we’re only two in - and a whole lot of people caught the premiere, which destroyed a Paramount+ record by about 80% with 7.4 million multi-platform views. If you are a Yellowstone fan and you aren’t watching 1923 during the YS mid-season hiatus, what the hell are you even doing with your life? Seriously, this new limited prequel series streaming on Paramount+ is legit, like pretty much everything Taylor Sheridan does. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |