1923
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Now we know they both survive the outcome I was hoping for.
That1923eschews a lazy, early grab at only-the-good-die-young gravity speaks to the shows ambition.
Do I believe these two hell-raisers are very long for the earth?
No, not especially.
But the series will earn their deaths if and when they come.
Yes, Spencer survives his leopard-hunting adventure, but Kagiso, his friend and partner, does not.
So let us tally them.
the safari director).
In fact, hes prepared to make authority grovel for its life.
But Alexandra is regrettably engaged to a drab, beanstalk man in whom she has no amorous interest whatsoever.
Its a society marriage that will leave the leonine bride her fathers description bored senseless.
And Spencer has no time for romance anyway.
If your sheep eat a mans grass, you may as well have shot that mans nephew.
Hes going to die anyway.
And thats exactly what Banner did when he clipped the fence to graze his sheep on Dutton land.
In the year of our Lord 1923.
No court, no jury, no law but the wild wind.
Its hanging reimagined as torture; certain death dressed up as a weird kind of frontier mercy.
If your horse is as loyal as a cowboys, youll have time to figure out an escape.
No, its a ready excuse to maintain his property rights by whatever brutality he sees fit.
And on Taylor Sheridans range, theres no woke nephew to object.
And Im glad for it because hes already making an interesting foil to Jacob.
Hes just as industrious, just as hardscrabble.
Despite what Jacob says, Banners not a pariah swooping in to take whats his.
He just had the misfortune to point his wagon westward a few years too late.
He could be Jacob if not for the accent and the grass-maggots he keeps for company.
But the range isnt the only part of the west that still runs wild in 1923.
At the reservation school, life persists in the direction of unchecked cruelty.
Its boring and brutal, and the food they serve is maggot-infested.
Teonna is locked inside overnight or maybe over several nights; its hard to say.
Im beginning to think the priest is correct: She will not survive this place.
The governor throws up nothing but bureaucratic obstacles, but the resolve on the grandmothers face is clear.
There is hope for Teonna yet.
And maybe some glory in her future, too.
Did anyone notice Grandmas appointment slip?
Do I spy the surname Rainwater a storied and preeminent family in theYellowstoneuniverse written out?
By comparison to the white overlords installed by the U.S. government, the Duttons look downright neighborly.
Theyre Robin Hoods, except they steal from the poor to give to the even poorer.
Helen Mirren sadly sits most of this episode out.
The women just wait at the Yellowstone for the men to return from moving cattle around.
But theres one woman who finds herself emboldened to seek out adventure before the episode ends.
Runaway bride Alexandra ditches her wedding party and demands Spencer whisk her away to the bush with him.
Shes so spirited and intriguing and rose-cheeked that he cant say no.
What was it Helen Mirren said to Elizabeth last week?
You will be free in a way that most people cannot conceive.
