Same thing happened when I checked out “Rome”. It started with the sex and how evil the powerful are. It lasted 30 minutes.
Now 1923 is out there. Perhaps it’s the Helen Mirren’s and the Harrison Ford’s who will help promote it but I for one won’t bother.
It was the Dutton's against the world, with the world being the Indians, corporate land grabbers and the govt.
“Indians, corporate land grabbers and the govt.”
These are plot lines, not metaphors for the disadvantaged, weak, powerful or otherwise. And it is a movie for goodness sake. Guess you can interpret it as a morality play or metaphor if you want to.
It’s a cowboy soap opera.
David Rockefeller bought most of the Jackson, WY area back in the 60’s
Old news. Why bother? Popular series initially but turned into the Beth Dutton Attention Whore Show. Horrible character played by a mediocre actress.
Watched a couple of episodes, nothing more than a Costner vanity project.
Oh, and anyone denying that humans have inalienable rights needs to be shot on sight.
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I watched about three seasons of it, and started watching the 1888 or whatever prequel. I got turned off by the two things. One - Dutton wins the governorship. I realize it is a tv show but in the real world of politics, his gangsterism would have been uncovered very quickly - especially the train station. Two - I got bored with the surliness of every character. Someone says good morning and it’s an in your face reply.
Yellowstone was a great series, 1883 pretty good and 1928 was also very interesting and entertaining. It beats everything on legacy tv.
100% with you. The Indians are brave poets who revere the land. The father daughter relationship is depraved. The goofball Taylor Sheridan version of cowboy culture was childish. The woman from “Texas” that had an accent like a mouth full of marbles.
The SEAL veteran with PTSD. Probably 75 shootout murders and terror bombings in a small Montana town and no federal agency notices. Ninjas and hit men sneaking around killing people. The de rigeur white supremacist gang taken out in a night raid ambush. The biker gang taught a lesson by the cowboys. The idiotic “train station” where nothing can be prosecuted.
And most of all, Christianity is trashed and mocked every time it comes up.
This was one of the most hard left shows on TV. It mystifies me that people cannot see that.
If it helps, 1883 and 1923 were even more woke. Both of those were fem-centric female power and sex fetish fantasy films.
Author of article missed it, and clearly doesn’t understand what Justice is.
Like so much of the product of Hollywood (and make no mistake, Sheridan and his productions are pure Hollywood) - these are the ancient stories are just being recast in the ‘American genre’, which is ‘the West’.
The ‘end’ of the series was pointless, as the immoral survivors attempt to buy/surrender their way to some form of peace, which was a cheap cop-out.
The characters deserve their own justice, to pay for their own voluminous crimes - if the show continued in rational form, they would all be hunted down and exterminated in their peaceful, idyllic hideaways.
“Guilt trips over the Indians”
See, this is what made Dances With Wolves so excellent. Yes, it makes for guilt trips over the Indians. And yes, it’s simultaneously the Great White Hero trope to piss of the lefties. But you know what? The audience is largely white, so yeah, it makes sense to let people see things from a white perspective. And in doing so, it adds context to the “guilt trips.” Yes, the Sioux were terribly mistreated. But other Indians (do I remember it correctly that they were Apache?) show just why it was so easy for white settlers to forget the Indians’ humanity. As time passes, people’s initial feelings in reaction to the movie faded, and their own politics overwhelmed their assessment of the film.
I could not stand that show..not one person to root for,we’ll maybe the one son...now “Justified”..that was a show...