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==Premise==
==Premise==
Follows a generation of the Dutton family in 1923, during a time of various hardships including [[American frontier|Western Expansion]], [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]], and the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]], which in Montana [[Montana#Depression era|started a decade earlier]].
Follows a generation of the Dutton family in 1923, during a time of various hardships including [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]], drought, and the early stages of the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]], which affected [[Montana#Depression era|Montana]] long before the [[1929 Stock Market Crash]].


==Cast==
==Cast==

Revision as of 06:28, 23 January 2023

1923
Genre
Created byTaylor Sheridan
Starring
Narrated byIsabel May
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes4
Production
Executive producers
Running time48–61 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkParamount+
ReleaseDecember 18, 2022 (2022-12-18) –
present
Related
Yellowstone

1923 is an American Western drama television series that premiered on December 18, 2022, on Paramount+.[1] The series is a prequel to the Paramount Network series Yellowstone and serves as a sequel to the series 1883. The series is set to run for two seasons with eight episodes each. The first season was divided into two parts, with the second premiering on February 5, 2023.

Premise

Follows a generation of the Dutton family in 1923, during a time of various hardships including Prohibition, drought, and the early stages of the Great Depression, which affected Montana long before the 1929 Stock Market Crash.

Cast

Main

  • Helen Mirren as Cara Dutton, the wife to Jacob Dutton and Dutton family matriarch.[2] Having no children of their own, Jacob and Cara raised John and Spencer Dutton as their own.[3]
  • Harrison Ford as Jacob Dutton, the patriarch of the Dutton ranch, husband to Cara Dutton, and brother of James Dutton (portrayed by Tim McGraw in 1883).
  • Brandon Sklenar as Spencer Dutton, the younger son of James and Margaret Dutton, John Dutton Sr.'s younger brother, and Jacob Dutton's youngest nephew. Spencer has witnessed the horrors of World War I and travels Africa tracking big game.[4] Charlie Stover portrayed Spencer Dutton as a child during flashbacks set in 1893 in two episodes of the fourth season of Yellowstone.
  • Julia Schlaepfer as Alexandra, an eccentric British woman who encounters Spencer in Africa.
  • Jerome Flynn as Banner Creighton, a Scottish sheep herder and adversary of the Duttons.[5]
  • Darren Mann as Jack Dutton, John Dutton Sr.'s son and only child, James Dutton's grandson, and great-nephew to Jacob Dutton. He is a dedicated rancher who is deeply loyal to his family.
  • Isabel May as the Narrator, Elsa Dutton.[6] May also portrayed Elsa Dutton in 1883.
  • Brian Geraghty as Zane Davis, the fiercely loyal ranch foreman of the Dutton Ranch.
  • Aminah Nieves as Teonna Rainwater, a rebellious young American Indian woman who was taken from her family and placed in a Catholic boarding school.
  • Michelle Randolph as Elizabeth "Liz" Strafford, a feisty and capable young woman and Jack Dutton's fiancée.
  • Timothy Dalton as Donald Whitfield, a powerful, wealthy business tycoon who is accustomed to getting what he wants.[7]

Recurring

  • Robert Patrick as Sheriff William McDowell, the sheriff of Gallatin County and a friend of the Dutton family.[8]
  • Sebastian Roché as Father Renaud, a French Roman Catholic priest and the headmaster of a Catholic boarding school.
  • Marley Shelton as Emma Dutton, the dutiful wife of John Dutton Sr. and the mother of Jack Dutton.
  • Leenah Robinson as Baapuxti, an American Indian student at the Catholic boarding school and Teonna's friend.
  • Kerry O'Malley as Sister Alice, a compassionate nun at the Catholic boarding school who takes advantage of those under her care.

Guest

  • James Badge Dale as John Dutton Sr., the eldest son of James and Margaret Dutton, Jacob Dutton's oldest nephew and right-hand man. Audie Rick portrayed John Dutton as a child in 1883. Jack Michael Doke portrayed the same character as a teenager during flashbacks set in 1893 in two episodes of the fourth season of Yellowstone.
  • Jennifer Ehle as Sister Mary, a ruthless Irish Catholic nun who teaches at a Catholic boarding school for American Indians, often coming into conflict with Teonna.[9]
  • Tim DeKay as Bob Strafford, Elizabeth's rancher father and a neighbour to the Duttons.[10]
  • Nick Boraine as Richard Holland, the head of a safari tour group in Africa who hires Spencer to hunt man-eaters.
  • Alexandra Grossi as Catherine Walsh, a wealthy British woman on safari in Africa.
  • Michael Spears as Runs His Horse, the chief of the Broken Rock Reservation and a neighbour to the Duttons.
  • Amelia Rico as Issaxche, a Crow woman seeking to reunite with her granddaughter.[10]
  • Jessalyn Gilsig as Beverly Strafford, Elizabeth's mother who is accustomed to city life.
  • Peter Stormare as Lucca, a weathered but wise sailor.[10]
  • Jacques Schembri as Jimmy Cricket, a mobster from Birmingham who crosses paths with Emma Dutton.[11]

Episodes

No.Title [12]Directed byWritten by [13]Original release date [14]
1"1923"Ben RichardsonTaylor SheridanDecember 18, 2022 (2022-12-18)
In a flashforward,[15] Cara Dutton is hunting down a man running away with a six-gun in his hand. After pleading for mercy, he attempts to shoot her, but she double barrels him at point blank range. A few months earlier on the other-side of the world, her nephew Spencer is shown stalking a man-eating lion in Africa. When the lion decides to rush him from the thicket, Dutton waits until the lion pounces into the air at him before discharging his rifle, killing the lion instantly. Back at the Yellowstone ranch, Jacob Dutton encounters problems with sheep ranchers who wish to trespass on his land to feed their starving herds of sheep. Jacob is reluctant to allow this, as sheep have a tendency to eat grass with the roots leaving empty plots of land in which the grass will not be able to grow back to feed his own livestock. At the conclusion, one of the sheep herders takes aims at Jack Dutton while the herder's sheep are feeding on Dutton's land and fires a single shot from the distance.
2"Nature's Empty Throne"Ben RichardsonTaylor SheridanDecember 25, 2022 (2022-12-25)
Jacob and the Yellowstone cowboys save one of their own before deciding their next move. Teonna continues to endure mistreatment and corporal punishment at the hands of Sister Mary. Cara and Emma discuss Elizabeth and Jack. Meanwhile in Kenya, Spencer kills two leopards after barely surviving a leopard attack in which two people were killed and partially eaten. Faced with the prospects of a possible future of a loveless marriage while on a journey of a lifetime visiting Britain's colonial outposts, Alexandra makes a bold decision.
3"The War Has Come Home"Ben RichardsonTaylor SheridanJanuary 1, 2023 (2023-01-01)
One of the sheep farmers survives being hanged as part of range war justice being enacted by Jacob Dutton while the others are hanged from a large tree in the clearing. The cowboys return home and Jacob takes everyone to town for recreation while he speaks to the sheriff about the sheep farmers shooting his grand nephew's horse from under him, and his decision for the range justice hangings afterword. While in town, the cowboys go to a basement speakeasy in town to enjoy a good time, and some of them made for serious time afterwards with their girlfriends. Jacob and the cowboys stay the night in town and start back to the ranch the next day. In the meantime, the sole survivor of the lynching party manages to stumble his way back home and makes a call to all the surviving local sheep farmers to meet and plot a revenge against Jacob for hanging several of their fellow sheep farmers. They decide to lay an extensive and fully armed rifle ambush while hidden in the forest on the path which Jacob and his family will take to get home to the ranch after their trip to the city. The ambush is brutally successful in attacking the Dutton family and their ranch hands with multiple mortal casualties. The head of the sheep herders shows up with a tommy gun and opens up directly on Jacob Dutton and his family within effective killing range. Jacob is hit multiple times in the abdomen and is taken back to the ranch, and a doctor is called. When the doctor arrives, it looks bad for Jacob and the others who were injured. Cara decides its time to write a letter to Africa to let her nephew know that his brother is dead, his uncle is near death's door and that it might be time for him to return home help defend their ranch from outsiders.
4"War and the Turquoise Tide"Ben RichardsonTaylor SheridanJanuary 8, 2023 (2023-01-08)
The result of the rifle ambush by the sheep farmers is severe, but Jacob's cowboys mount a counterattack on horseback which is devastating in effect. The sheep farmers also killed the cowboys guarding the cattle left to graze in the mountains and sell the stolen cattle in Wyoming. Jacob survives the night at home laying disabled on his bedroom bed; he tells Cara that she must represent him at the local weekly meeting of cattle owners to make his case for required increases in security throughout the territory. Cara goes and effectively convinces the cattlemen to agree to Dutton's plan and schedules the next meeting of the cattlemen for one month away. She wishes to buy time for Jacob to recover and for her nephew to show up for the coming range war. The sheep farmers go to meet with a local mining tycoon in order to get money and hire guns to support their war against the Dutton family by offering to sell the mineral rights under the Dutton Ranch after they take the land away from the Duttons. They are required to swear a blood oath upon their families that if they fail or are disloyal to the mining magnate, that the consequences will be severe and mortal for both them and for their families. After incessant abuse from sister Mary, Teonna kills her in her bed via suffocation, while declaring war in her native language. Teonna then flees the school. Cara's letter reaches Africa after ninety days, and her nephew is deeply involved with his fiancé when he receives the notification that there is a range war in progress and that his help is desperately required.
5TBAUnknownTaylor SheridanFebruary 5, 2023 (2023-02-05)
6TBAUnknownTaylor SheridanFebruary 12, 2023 (2023-02-12)

Crossovers

Both prequel shows are narrated by Isabel May, who in the 1883 series played Elsa, the daughter of James and Margaret Dutton.[16][17] May is the only actor who has main cast credits on both prequel shows.

Although portrayed by different actors, the only character that appears on screen in both prequel shows is John Dutton Sr.

Production

Development

It was announced in February 2022 that a second Yellowstone prequel series had been ordered titled 1932 that would succeed the series 1883.[18]

In June, the title was renamed to 1923.[19]

In December 2022, Sheridan explained "No one has had the freedom I’ve had since Robert Evans ran Paramount," and discussed the 1923 production cost: "I would argue that 1883 was the most expensive first season of a TV show ever made. This was much more expensive. Much more expensive."[20]

Casting

In May, Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford were cast to star in the series.[21]

In a Deadline interview, Sheridan explained he got Ford to fly down in his own plane to Sheridan's ranch, and told him "[the script] ain’t written yet and you got to commit to it now. I need to know who I’m writing for... I poured about two bottles of wine down him. He said yes." Then Sheridan continued, "Then came Helen [Mirren], and same thing. Have a glass of wine."[20][22]

In September, Sebastian Roché, James Badge Dale, Darren Mann, Marley Shelton, Michelle Randolph, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, and Julia Schlaepfer were added to the cast.[23][2]

Filming

Pre-production began in Butte, Montana in July 2022,[24] with filming officially beginning on August 22.[25] Principal photography took place across Montana, with many Montana-set scenes shot in the same locations as Yellowstone.[26] Additional scenes were filmed throughout African, Asian, and European countries—including Afghanistan, Kenya, Malta, South Africa, and Tanzania.[27]

The series is set to run for two seasons with eight episodes each.[28] The show is estimated to cost between $30–35 million per episode.[29]

Reception

On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, 1923 holds a 91% approval rating with an average rating of 7.0/10, based on 32 reviews by critics. The website's consensus reads, "Distinguished by the ineffable star power of Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, 1923 is another solid if unrelentingly grim addition to Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone universe."[30] On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the series has received a score of 67 out of 100 based on 15 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[31]

According to Paramount, the debut episode brought in 7.4 million viewers in both linear and streaming telecasts, making it Paramount+'s biggest debut ever.[32][33]

References

  1. ^ Petski, Denise (October 27, 2022). "'1923': Taylor Sheridan's 'Yellowstone' Prequel Gets Premiere Date on Paramount+". Deadline Hollywood. PMC. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
  2. ^ a b Cordero, Rosy (September 8, 2022). "'1923': Taylor Sheridan Finds Dutton Ancestors In James Badge Dale, Darren Mann & Marley Shelton As Paramount+ Series Expands Cast". Deadline. Retrieved September 8, 2022.
  3. ^ Breznican, Anthony (November 11, 2022). "1923 First Look: Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren Come to Yellowstone". Vanity Fair. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on November 12, 2022. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
  4. ^ Cordero, Rosy (September 15, 2022). "'1923': Brandon Sklenar Joins Taylor Sheridan's 'Yellowstone' Prequel". Deadline. Retrieved September 15, 2022.
  5. ^ Petski, Denise (September 22, 2022). "'1923': Jerome Flynn Cast In Taylor Sheridan's 'Yellowstone' Prequel At Paramount+". Deadline.
  6. ^ "1923". 1993. Season 1. Episode 1. December 18, 2021. 4-6 minutes in. Paramount+. Official transcript.
  7. ^ Cordero, Rosy (October 13, 2022). "'1923': Timothy Dalton Joins Taylor Sheridan's 'Yellowstone' Prequel". Deadline.
  8. ^ Cordero, Rosy (September 16, 2022). "'1923': Robert Patrick Joins Taylor Sheridan's 'Yellowstone' Prequel". Deadline. Retrieved September 16, 2022.
  9. ^ Cordero, Rosy (September 27, 2022). "'1923': Jennifer Ehle Joins Taylor Sheridan's 'Yellowstone' Prequel". Deadline. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  10. ^ a b c Otterson, Joe (November 29, 2022). "'Yellowstone' Prequel '1923' Casts Peter Stormare, Tim Dekay, Amelia Rico in Recurring Roles (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved December 10, 2022.
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  13. ^ "1923". Writers Guild of America West. Retrieved December 14, 2022.
  14. ^ "Shows A-Z – 1923 on Paramount+". The Futon Critic. Retrieved December 14, 2022.
  15. ^ Strause, Jackie (January 4, 2023). "'1923' Star on That Tragic Shoot-Out and How It Sets Up the 'Yellowstone' Prequel". The Hollywood Reporter.
  16. ^ Winn Johnson, Michael (December 18, 2022). "1923 Episode 1 Review: Yellowstone Prequel Starts Strong". Den of Geek. DoG Tech. Archived from the original on December 20, 2022. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
  17. ^ Roots, Kimberly (December 18, 2022). "1923 Recap: Grade the Premiere of Yellowstone's Latest Prequel". TVLine. Penske Media Corporation. Archived from the original on December 20, 2022. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
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  20. ^ a b Fleming, Mike Jr. (December 20, 2022). "Taylor Sheridan On How The Harrison Ford-Helen Mirren Ratings Record Setter '1923' Came After Network's Shocking Realization The Cast Of Freshly Renewed '1883' Was Dead". Deadline. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
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