1883
The road west was paved with blood.
Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. A stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land — Montana.
Wokeness: 40%
Overall Score: 60%
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Maria
Hardships of Travel by Wagon Train
This shows provides the backdrop or history of the Dutton Family from the TV show Yellowstone. It provides reasons why the people who traveled by wagon train to settle in the west developed strong passions for the land and for their families. The show emotes grit, perseverance, and grief - mixed in with some beautiful thought provoking narration. It is well written with the main character, played by Isabel May as the oldest Dutton daughter, providing a narrative that in many cases is very poetic. It’s hard to write wokeness into a TV show written for 1883, but they managed to do that several times - but the overall saga remained in focus (not the wokeness). After watching this series, I came away with a greater appreciation for most of the human beings that lived through this era, life was not easy and people died on a regular basis. Sam Elliott does a great job as the old and wise trail boss. I would recommend this to adult viewers only, there is graphic violence, some nudity, and rough language.
Created: 04-08-2022
COWBOY
Created: 01-04-2023
Danny
Not realistic
Right or wrong women would have never been on horseback herding cattle.
1 scene in particular shows a woman by a river and a group of white men, of course, ride up to assault her. She and another woman fire upon them and of course the white men run in fear.
Created: 02-16-2023
Michaels
Get your western fix
This is thoroughly enjoyable. The over-the-top heroine does not follow the gender norms of civilized society and so feels free in the uncivilized West, which is slightly woke but mostly fun. The mixed race couples seem more a product of the environment of the story than virtue signaling.
Created: 07-24-2023
Ryan Gen Z
Strong start but loses it's way
anthonyjlangford16 wrote:
Very strong opening. Excellent two to three episodes. Good production value with an important and rare story. Finally, something fresh. The immigrant experience.
How disappointing to be wrong.
It soon loses it's way. By mid-season, it's clear we're party to the old Bait-n-Switch. Unfortunately, it heads into fantasy and becomes yet another modern identity lecture. Strong independent women, awesome flawless minorities, 'pithweak' evil white men.
Even the excellent Sam Elliot gets relocated to the back seat.
This is just fantasy. Such an awful shame, as there really was great potential for many story threads and a valuable insight into the type of history that is overlooked now in favor of the usual 'victim' diatribes. What lack of insight. What incredible shortsightedness.
I had rated this and the early two episodes a 9. I was really enjoying it. By midway, I had to change the rating to a 7. At best. The focus, on just a few characters, who are more at home in the 21st century than the 19th... Give us reality. Not modern polemics. The cinematography is the only redeeming feature.
I won't watch the last 3 episodes. I refuse to be party to more of Hollywood's false moralizing narrative. A valuable opportunity squandered. A rejection of history. A juvenile soap opera.
Created: 12-28-2023
