1923
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This is what the Mountain West is like in 1923: The land is parched.
The rain is locusts.
The grass is straw.
Cows and sheep go hungry.
Automobiles line Main Street, but real men still ride horses.
Old hostilities between the Irish and the British have recreated themselves in the new world.
That Fords deeply creviced 80-year-old face looks carved from soapstone only underscores his claim.
There was never a dawn in America without the Duttons.
I have a budget for elephants!
Oh, your show has a cute little crane shot?
Im filming these vistas off the side of a chopper!
We out here in Tanzania!
Welcome to prestige TV in the time ofYellowstone, baby!
Except1923doesnt feel much likeYellowstone, a show I consider to be the most captivating trash on television.
with a shotgun in hand.
Cara shoots a trespasser whos looking to kill her, too.
She doesnt have a choice.
The frontier credo is live and let live until its kill or be killed.
However, what the Duttons really need is a publicAncestry.comaccount.
In1923,theyve already grown up.
Jack and Elizabeth are the grandparents of ranching nepo baby John Dutton III (Kevin Costner onYellowstone).
I apologize in advance for any misinformation in the paragraph above.
Someone will kindly sort me out in the comment section, Im sure.
the rascal sellsword Bronn fromGame of Thrones).
The Duttons stay the same across the decades; its their enemies that change.
Illegally grazing their flock on another mans land.
Bullies, bullies, bullies, Jacob calls the desperate men.
Bullies whining about the consequences of the rules they broke.
To be sure, Banner doesnt have much love for the Duttons, either.
Youre no God, he screams at Jacob like a man whos never seen an episode ofYellowstone.
The mountains belong to the wolves and the grizzlies.
Sheridan is so good at letting small decisions ripple across the water.
You dont marry the man; you marry the life.
And in this life, the needs of the cattle will always win.
It doesnt really matter, though.
Theyll get married next week or the week after or whenever.
On the range, Jacob tells Elizabeths irked and embarrassed pa, marriage is more of a formality anyway.
This is a mistake, methinks.
Father Renaud (Sebastian Roche) makes Sister Mary look like a saint.
He raps Marys knuckles for lack of compassion until its Teonna who cries for him to stop.
Hows that for a music cue?
At night, though, the girls whisper between their cots about what happens to them next.
As horrific as school may be, they never hear from the graduates who promise to write.
Do the nuns hide the letters?
Or is whatever lies on the other side so bad that no letters ever arrive?
Montana is just one of1923s two theaters.
Here, the grizzlies are lions and rhinos.
The herd hes protecting is wealthy holidaymakers.
How lethal and also how strange!
Arent leopards solitary big cats, you might be asking yourself?
Leopards are whatever Taylor Sheridan tells you they are.
John Dutton loses a son in theYellowstoneseries premiere; James Dutton loses a daughter in the1883season-one finale.
That Cora writes Spencer a plaintive letter wishing for his homecoming feels decidedly foreboding.
But Spencers is not the only life hanging in the balance at the end of the series premiere.
The war in Europe is won; closer to home, a range war is imminent.
It can be done!
The Duttons know to be on the lookout for grizzlies, but we were fools not to guess it!
man poses the greatest threat.
A shot is fired in his direction, and we dont learn who or what it hits.
You might be thinking that Jack cannot die.
Its plain rude to interrogate the math between a mans wedding anniversary and the birthday of his firstborn.
Perhaps Jack and Spencer both survive.
Or maybe neither man ever comes home.
