![]() ![]() ![]() That flaw is amplified because Sheridan has badly confused giving a character an internal monologue with offering a perspective from that character. The two-pronged flaw: First, Elsa’s voiceover is just horribly overwritten and banal without any real clarification as to whether Sheridan thinks he’s written something profound or he thinks this is the way teenage girls wrote in their diaries in 1883 or what. Elsa provides 1883 with a voiceover and with its curious outsider’s perspective, that of a plucky, resourceful teen getting caught up in Manifest Destiny, with threats of rape and death around every bend. For all of the bigger names and genre veterans onscreen, 1883 is actually Elsa’s story. Has Costner’s Yellowstone character ever mentioned that one of his female relatives was a bad author?īecause that’s the other Trojan horse here. Sheridan doesn’t pander to the established audience from Yellowstone by, for example, beginning the show with Kevin Costner sitting with a yellowed photo album and announcing, “You’re probably wondering how I got here…” It’s a needless Trojan horse. There’s no clear reason why the central family has to be the Duttons. Sheridan’s thesis can be quickly summarized as “Man, the Old West was rough,” which is sure to come as a revelation to anybody who hasn’t seen a Clint Eastwood film, Deadwood or played Oregon Trail. The rest of the series is a lot of drawling cowpokes, expertly adjusted Stetsons and talk of dangerous gun-toting mobs. ![]() The pilot begins with a group of ultra-generic Native Americans brutally attacking a wagon convoy, an in medias res scene so packed with stereotypes I’m praying an unanticipated twist will be unveiled before the main narrative catches up. It’s that the series is actually a straightforward period Western and not even of the revisionist variety. If there’s anything notable about 1883, Sheridan’s latest Paramount+ drama, it isn’t that it’s a Yellowstone prequel other than several characters sharing the last name “Dutton,” connections are of the Easter egg variety. 'Special Ops: Lioness' Review: Zoe Saldaña and Nicole Kidman in Taylor Sheridan's Simplistic Paramount+ Series ![]()
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