User Reviews

A great continuation of an incredible story. This series sheds light on the denouement of the backstory from the previous series. Perhaps this series is worthy and incredible. Also the whole series as a whole. The best of recent work for Kharisov Ford and other actors. I hope the directors don't ruin the ending...The advantage of this series is not a trivial and exciting plot. The relationship between the main characters flowing organically against the backdrop of the main plot, forced to admire and empathize. This series is turning into something epic and memorable. This series has become a great addition to this picture. Not all modern series are so exciting.

1923 is probably a little bit less quality than 1883, but it is coming into its own in a way. Not too many scenes were boring here, which is an upgrade from how things were going on early on with the show.

I don't like the new premium drama style where some characters barely appear or don't appear until the very end though. Spencer not appearing until there was like 10 minutes left did not make a lot of sense other than they thought it was "artistic" to do it that way, but it was not.

Regardless, a good episode here and it has me excited for the finale next week to see how this first season ends.

I've thoroughly enjoyed Yellowstone. 1886 and, up until this episode,1923.

The gratuitous objectification and the casual use of violence against women as entertainment (and of course the obligatory cliche of men's girl-on-girl fantasy) was deeply disappointing. We know who the bad guys are and these two scenes contributed absolutely nothing to the story. It really saddens me to see excellent writing and acting demeaned in this way.

Taylor Sheridan has written some great female characters which makes it even more disheartening to see him resort to scenes which seem to be aimed at the readers of lads mags.

Rainwater storyline... amazing, heartbreaking, excruciating, cathartic, reflective.

Helen Miran - any scene with her in it, even with no dialogue, is easily a 7-8 out of 10. She is just outshining everyone.

Rest of the action with the family and cowboys on the Dutton ranch... starting to show promise and is building towards something interesting.

Strange out of place kitchen scene with the two "working ladies" and Timothy Dalton's character that added nothing to the story nor character development and seemed completely out of place.

And finally *sigh*... Spencer and Alex. The most bizarre dialogue written and zero chemistry between them, and the awful over the top English accent and mannerisms that have really blighted this series from the start. Notwithstanding some of the above criticisms, the episode was almost becoming one of the most interesting and promising ones (especially with the Rainwater story) but then the last 10 minutes completely spoilt it with the Spencer and Alex scenes. Would really love to understand what was done differently in this series as it bares practically no resemblance to 1883 or any of the Yellowstone series.

Sheridan's writing is uneven in every show he has created, from brilliant relationships (Rip & Beth in Yellowstone) to downright absurd detail (on a dark night, follow the path by watching the sparks from the hooves of the horse in front of you striking rocks in, 1883)

This latest episode in 1923 is no exception - some great moments - Mirren carries the entire series while Ford delivers an unexpectedly weak presence - to a contrived, wooden conversation with a young woman in the trauma a recent miscarriage. A scene clearly written by a man with no understanding of this moment in a woman's life.

In addition, Sheridan uses great swathes of time to introduce characters and scenes that are, literally, irrelevant to the story. We do learn that all Catholics, categorically, are evil (who knew?) and that heartless racism is the order of the day.

And then the gratuitous sex scenes . . . Worthless filler signifying nothing but the laziness of a writer who can't be bothered to tell a linear narrative.

There's so much story that could be told, so many main characters whose character/personality could be explored but all that potential is edged out by tangential forays leading nowhere or stupid, lazy sexual clichés . . .

While trying to like it, Sheridan is tempting this reviewer to abandon his writing, altogether. Time will tell but, it's unlikely that this series will be counted as 'great', which is a genuine missed opportunity - perhaps the inescapable consequence of writing so many shows in such rapid succession.

The Native American experience in this time period was bleak, there is no doubt about that. But the Native American storyline has been relentlessly bleak, gratuitously violent and just sloppily written. The scene that was particularly galling in this episode was when Hank walked away and left his shotgun on the ground next to the priest, allowing the priest to shoot him in back. There's just no way he would have left the shotgun there. Ridiculous.

I'm considering skipping the Teonna storyline altogether; I'm weary of the gratuitous violence, cruelty and gore and cruel and doesn't add any value to the series so far.

The show is mostly somewhat passable except for I don't understand the horrible brutal Indian girl part at all adds absolutely nothing to the story and she makes everything excessively violent for no reason.. yeah we get it White religious people back then were super bad blah blah blah. And what's with the Instagram model who plays the guy's wife? Could they have not at least tried to style her so she looked like she was part of the times. And then we go on to the insane soft core porn and hardcore sexualization of women in this episode just try to get horny young men to rate this higher. Lazy and pathetic lack of writing. Not to mention the constant f word which they did not say in 1923. It doesn't make your show edgy and cool to constantly add that in. It just shows that you have a lack of knowledge of history and are too lazy to try to understand the words they used. Bad enough that overly dramatic things happen and then are immediately righted so there was no point to them happening at all besides minor shock value. Honestly the only good part of the story is the guy in Africa and his wife who is one of the only good actresses.