Country: US
Technical: col 16:9 (2 seasons, approx 15x60m)
Director: Ben Richardson, Guy Ferland (Creator, Taylor Sheridan)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer, Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Aminah Nieves, Sebastian Roché, Jennifer Ehle, Timothy Dalton
Synopsis:
In the era of Prohibition, Jacob Dutton clashes with sheep farmers in Livingston, Montana, and an English businessman exploits the situation to further his own tourism scheme. Meanwhile, a Crow girl is abused by nuns at a Catholic school for Native American girls.
Review:
This second prequel to Yellowstone (q.v.) spreads its simple story over two seasons by cutting between three separate threads: the siege of the Dutton family, a love story involving the PTSD stricken nephew in Africa, and the persecution of the Indian girl by a renegade priest and US Marshal. It thus sacrifices the self-contained unity of 1883, but packs in plenty of excitement at the same time. As before, Sheridan's writing machine is ruthless in despatching key characters to up the stakes, and one blanches at how perilous travel was in those days. Minor irritations are Isabel May's continuing portentous voiceover from beyond the grave, and Schlaepfer's absurdly over-the-top Cotswold accent; moreover, the repeated focus on Dalton's sadomasochistic practices does somewhat labour the point that he is a bad man. More a gangster film than a western, 1923 continues its hymn to land conservation and serves notice on John (Costner) Dutton's misgivings about the direction of travel a century later.
Country: US
Technical: col 16:9 (2 seasons, approx 15x60m)
Director: Ben Richardson, Guy Ferland (Creator, Taylor Sheridan)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer, Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Aminah Nieves, Sebastian Roché, Jennifer Ehle, Timothy Dalton
Synopsis:
In the era of Prohibition, Jacob Dutton clashes with sheep farmers in Livingston, Montana, and an English businessman exploits the situation to further his own tourism scheme. Meanwhile, a Crow girl is abused by nuns at a Catholic school for Native American girls.
Review:
This second prequel to Yellowstone (q.v.) spreads its simple story over two seasons by cutting between three separate threads: the siege of the Dutton family, a love story involving the PTSD stricken nephew in Africa, and the persecution of the Indian girl by a renegade priest and US Marshal. It thus sacrifices the self-contained unity of 1883, but packs in plenty of excitement at the same time. As before, Sheridan's writing machine is ruthless in despatching key characters to up the stakes, and one blanches at how perilous travel was in those days. Minor irritations are Isabel May's continuing portentous voiceover from beyond the grave, and Schlaepfer's absurdly over-the-top Cotswold accent; moreover, the repeated focus on Dalton's sadomasochistic practices does somewhat labour the point that he is a bad man. More a gangster film than a western, 1923 continues its hymn to land conservation and serves notice on John (Costner) Dutton's misgivings about the direction of travel a century later.
