Can you imagine being stuck on a cruise ship with your ex-lover for three weeks? Because that’s where we were, unexpectedly, heading in the season 1 finale of Paramount’s Yellowstone prequel, 1923. When we left last week, Alexandra had just encountered her jilted fiance and his family over a rosé-fueled bistro meal in Italy as [...]

After last week’s non-stop action, this week’s episode of “1923,” “One Ocean Closer to Destiny,” felt a bit more like connective tissue of sorts, answering some unanswered questions and setting us up for the ultimate intersection of the individual stories of Teonna, the Duttons, Banner, and Spencer—that is, if Spencer even makes it back to [...]

The first thing I noticed about this week’s opening scene of “1923,” perhaps a byproduct of an upbringing spent mainly in Santa Fe, was the expanse of Aspen trees as Cara drove her chestnut horse to town on her buggy, visiting the post office in hopes of mail from Spencer. The Aspen—the populus tremula, or [...]

Land. It’s precious. It’s a point of pride and contention. And nothing has served as a better reminder than the first half of of Paramount+’s “Yellowstone” prequel, “1923.” Make sure to brush up on the first four episodes before new shows drop February 5. In the opening scene, we’re met with a disturbed, blue-dressed Cara [...]