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Summary The Yellowstone prequel set in the 1880s follows James and Margaret Dutton (Tim McGraw and Faith Hill) as they move their family to start a new life on Montana.
Created By: Taylor Sheridan
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Paramount+
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Paramount+
1883
Season 1 Premiere: Dec 19, 2021
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8.0
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Summary The Yellowstone prequel set in the 1880s follows James and Margaret Dutton (Tim McGraw and Faith Hill) as they move their family to start a new life on Montana.
Created By: Taylor Sheridan
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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17% Mixed
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17% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
69
67% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
17% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
17% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
This just might be the greatest Western on TV since “Lonesome Dove” some 30 years ago.
Make some popcorn and plan to watch the two-episode origin story in one sitting. It might be the most satisfying addition to the Western genre since Godless.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 93 User Ratings
8.0
81% Positive
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11% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 93 User Ratings
8.0
81% Positive
75 Ratings
75 Ratings
11% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
9% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
This was such an excellent Western, a kind of Neo-western, totally unromantisised, set in the late 1880s (although the naming of this show is a bit obvious, in my opnion). It follows the Dutton family, and although the cast is big and varied, we get to know Else, the Dutton's eldest child, the most. She has some beautiful narration throughout, some of it was genuinely moving. I haven't watched Yellowstone, and after being put off by the first episode, but the way Sheridan wrote this tragic family ensemble story, with sensitivity and truth, makes me want to give it another go... maybe.
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Stunningly beautiful yet heartbreaking show, a must watch really. I **** after the 10th episode, its a well built drama with very nice visuals and soundtrack, very engaging. Do yourself a favor and start it now, then write a comment for others so they will watch too and more people will know this, pity to miss really. Masterpiece!
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"Yellowstone" has always been the kind of show that it seems like Sam Elliott should be in — in the series, Forrie J. Smith plays a senior ranch hand who looks like he could be Elliott's stunt double — so it's fitting that Sheridan has found a way to weave him into "Yellowstone's" DNA. "1883" is expansive enough to stand on its own, but its ties to the original series give it grounding. We know where it's eventually headed, but that doesn't take away from the journey of getting there.
Strap down your Stetson, ’cause it’s a grim, bumpy ride—one so dark at times it threatens to overshadow even the most golden sweeping sunsets on those untamed Great Plains.
'1883' never feels like a perfunctory franchise expansion. ... But the writing isn’t without its snags. ... Still, '1883' has the characters, the scope, and the vision to become an exciting new chapter of the 'Yellowstone' franchise.
Westerns were plentiful in TV's early days and are now fairly rare, so it's always somewhat refreshing to see an ambitious show within that genre. But to paraphrase the advice Dutton receives, when you have the opportunity to mount a series of this scale in the rough-and-tumble frontier of streaming, you better know how to do it a little better than this.
The first couple of episodes are a bad attempt to do Deadwood-style revisionism and the third is a bland attempt to do a straightforward Western, stripping some of the — forgive me — dead wood from the ensemble and adding just a little romance and very limited comedy to the bleak nihilism. Sheridan’s target audience will probably already be invested long before then and those with initially casual interest will have previously checked out.
This is a great show, and the storytelling finesse of Taylor Sheridan is remarkable. I found myself glued and **** into the world of the Dutton family and the beauty of Elsa's narration through to the end made it easy to relate to with a unique and young strong female perspective I really appreciated.
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If I were to break it down into a scale some episodes are 9/10 quality others are more like 5/10. Half of it is sort of romanticizing the concept of being a cowboy and the other half explores the world of a post civil war America following a group of immigrants as they journey across the lethal landscape. I would say you could probably shave at least 3 episodes worth of content and tell a better story instead. Things drag their heels with an inconsistent pacing that never quite steadies itself. Part of me feels like the production may have been somewhat improvised and stretched too far.
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A poor mans lonsome dove that is made with a good craftmanship...
The problem is that the direction has the same tune all over....Depressing and it repeats itself all the **** makes it a bit of a difficult watch cause it never brakes out of its shell..
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Show has great production values but is terribly slowly paced, could have been multiple episodes shorter, every episode is like a rerun of the previous with a few changes, travel on the prairie, reach a deadly river, ranch cattle, fight a few bandits etc... Wagon train moves like 10% of the journey in the first 7 episodes... Also not really historically accurate, more like 1853 than 1883.
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Production Company:
- 101 Studios
- Bosque Ranch Productions
- CBS Entertainment
- Linson Entertainment
- MTV Entertainment Studios
Initial Release Date: Dec 19, 2021
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Online Film & Television Association
• 9 Nominations
Women's Image Network Awards
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 3 Nominations
