1923
Genre
Created byTaylor Sheridan
Starring
Narrated byIsabel May
Composers
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes8
Production
Executive producers
Cinematography
Editors
  • Chad Galster
  • Byron Smith
  • Christopher Gay
  • Brooke Rupe
  • Todd Desrosiers
Running time47–69 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkParamount+
ReleaseDecember 18, 2022 (2022-12-18) –
present
Related

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, with Isabel May reprising her role from the latter as narrator Elsa Dutton. In February 2023, the series was renewed for a second season of eight episodes.

Premise

The series 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 Wall Street Crash of 1929.

Cast

Main

Recurring

Guest

Episodes

Season 1 (2022–23)

No.Title [15]Directed byWritten by [16]Original release date [17]
1"1923"Ben RichardsonTaylor SheridanDecember 18, 2022 (2022-12-18)
In a flashforward,[18] Cara Dutton hunts down a man for attacking the Dutton family and kills him. In Africa, her nephew Spencer is a big-game hunter for hire. Back at the Yellowstone ranch, Jacob Dutton encounters sheep ranchers, led by Banner Creighton, trespassing on the family land to feed their starving sheep, who attack Jack Dutton. At a Catholic Indian boarding school, Teonna Rainwater suffers physical and mental abuse at the hands of Sister Mary, causing her to rebel.
2"Nature's Empty Throne"Ben RichardsonTaylor SheridanDecember 25, 2022 (2022-12-25)
Jack is saved by Jacob and the Yellowstone cowboys. They capture the herders and hang them as justice for trespassing and for attacking Jack, although Banner manages to escape. Teonna continues to endure mistreatment at the hands of Sister Mary. Meanwhile in Kenya, Spencer meets a woman named Alexandra and the two become smitten with each other. Alexandra leaves her fiancé and joins Spencer and the two start a relationship.
3"The War Has Come Home"Ben RichardsonTaylor SheridanJanuary 1, 2023 (2023-01-01)
Creighton manages to stumble his way back home and gathers sheep herders to plot revenge against the Duttons. Jacob goes to town and speaks to the sheriff about the sheep farmers. On their way back to the ranch the next day, they are ambushed by the herders and Jacob is wounded. Reinforcements arrive and kill the herders, while Creighton and several others escape. Jacob tells Cara to write a letter to Spencer for his return. As the doctor tends to him, Cara leaves and begins to write the letter, begging Spencer to come home to defend his family's land. Meanwhile, Spencer asks Alexandra to marry him.
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. Jacob is bedridden, while Jack and Elizabeth face struggles in their relationship. With so many of his allies dead, Creighton meets with the mining magnate Donald Whitfield to gain support for his war against the Dutton family. Cara represents Jacob at a meeting of local cattle owners and convinces the cattlemen to agree to Dutton's plan. After incessant abuse from Sister Mary, Teonna finally kills her and also Sister Alice before fleeing the school. Spencer grows closer to his fiancée and receives Cara's letter that a range war is in progress.
5"Ghost of Zebrina"Guy FerlandTaylor SheridanFebruary 5, 2023 (2023-02-05)
Father Renaud is alerted to the murders of Sisters Mary and Alice and sends three priests after Teonna. In the Badlands, Teonna encounters Hank, who offers to help her. In Africa, Spencer decides to return, and his fianceé Alex decides to accompany him. Spencer arranges passage on a local tugboat that will get him to the Suez Canal, where he will arrange passage to America. Meanwhile, the sheep herders begin to make headway against the local ranchers. Jack and Elizabeth reconcile and secretly say their vows as a form of marriage. Later, Elizabeth reveals she is pregnant. Jacob slowly recovers from his wounds. On the way to the Suez Canal, the tug boat with Spencer and Alex is struck by an abandoned French cargo ship left adrift and capsizes.
6"One Ocean Closer to Destiny"Guy FerlandTaylor SheridanFebruary 12, 2023 (2023-02-12)
Spencer and Alex barely survive the capsizing and are later rescued by the S.S. Lambridge, which will take them to Marseille. The two have the captain marry them in international waters. Back in Montana, Cara and the sheriff begin the process of hiring livestock agents for a new agency. Jacob realizes the mining magnate's true intentions to squeeze the Duttons out. The Marshals search for Teonna, while Hank gives Teonna male clothes and the name Joe.
7"The Rule of Five Hundred"Ben RichardsonTaylor SheridanFebruary 19, 2023 (2023-02-19)
Jacob, Jack, Sheriff McDowell, and the ranch's posse arrest Creighton, who is living a luxurious life and surprised to learn that Jacob is alive. A livestock agent informs Whitfield about the situation, prompting Whitfield to send his lawyer to help Creighton. Meanwhile, Teonna is found by the priests sent to find her in the badlands. Hank saves her, but he is killed. Meanwhile, Spencer and Alex find themselves in Sicily, where they unexpectedly encounter Alex's former fiancé.
8"Nothing Left to Lose"Ben RichardsonTaylor SheridanFebruary 26, 2023 (2023-02-26)
After the priests do not return, Father Renaud and Marshall Kent search for Teonna. Runs His Horse and Pete Plenty Clouds find Teonna and take her with them. Creighton is released without bail. Zane's wife Alice is arrested for miscegenation and Zane is beaten by police. Meanwhile, Spencer and Alex board a liner to London. Alex's former fiancé Arthur challenges Spencer to a duel, which Spencer wins. However, Arthur attacks him and Spencer kills him in self-defense. Although not charged, Spencer is removed from the vessel at the nearest port. Alex learns her parents have arranged for her to return to London and that she cannot leave the ship. Seeing Spencer be taken away, she declares she will find him in Bozeman, Montana. Back at the Dutton ranch, Whitfield arrives to announce that he has paid their property tax, and if they cannot pay him back by the end of the year, the deed for the land will default into his possession. Elizabeth suffers a miscarriage.

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.[19] In June, the title was renamed to 1923.[20] In December 2022, Taylor 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."[21] In February 2023, Paramount+ renewed the series for a second season.[22]

Writing

Sheridan's writing in the series was influenced by the other spin-offs from Yellowstone; for example, both prequel shows are written as being narrated by Isabel May, who in the 1883 series played Elsa, the daughter of James and Margaret Dutton.[23][24] May is the only actor who has main cast credits on both prequel shows.

Casting

In May 2022, Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford were cast to star in the series.[25] They had previously starred together 36 years ago in The Mosquito Coast. Ford, as revealed in a February 2023 interview with James Hibberd of The Hollywood Reporter, took up the offer to play Jacob Dutton despite saying in 2002 that he worked only once a year, citing the COVID-19 pandemic and his commitments to the titular role of the long-delayed Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny reasons why he had not done as much work as he wished and wanted to try new things. As with his role in Shrinking, Ford accepted the role before there was a script, trusting that Sheridan would deliver a good one.[26]

In a Deadline Hollywood 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".[21][27]

In September 2022, Sebastian Roché, James Badge Dale, Darren Mann, Marley Shelton, Michelle Randolph, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, and Julia Schlaepfer were added to the cast.[28][2]

Filming

Pre-production began in Butte, Montana in July 2022,[29]

Filming was scheduled to begin on August 22, also in Butte, since that city was the stand-in for Bozeman, Montana.[30][31] Principal photography took place across Montana, with many Montana-set scenes shot in the same locations as Yellowstone.[32] Additional scenes were filmed in Kenya, Malta, South Africa, and Tanzania.[33][34] Some of the scenes that take place on the ocean liner RMS Majestic, were actually filmed at the RMS Queen Mary which is now a floating hotel, docked in Long Beach, California.[35]

The show was predicted to cost between $30–35 million per episode.[36]

The series is set to run for two seasons with eight episodes each.[37] In February 2023, the series was renewed for a second season.[38] Filming of the second season was delayed due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike.[39]

The first season was broadcast in two blocks of four episodes each, with a month-long gap between the fourth and fifth episodes.

Reception

On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, 1923 holds a 90% approval rating with an average rating of 7.0/10, based on 39 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."[40] 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".[41]

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.[42][43]

Accolades

Year Award Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.
2024
 AACTA International Awards Best Actress in a Series Helen Mirren Nominated [44]
Astra TV Awards Best Streaming Series, Drama 1923 Nominated [45]
Best Actor in a Streaming Series, Drama Harrison Ford Nominated
Best Actress in a Streaming Series, Drama Helen Mirren Nominated
Best Directing in a Streaming Series, Drama Ben Richardson Nominated
Best Writing in a Streaming Series, Drama Taylor Sheridan Nominated
Golden Globe Awards Best Television Series – Drama 1923 Nominated [46][47]
Best Actress – Television Series Drama Helen Mirren Nominated
Satellite Awards Best Drama Series 1923 Nominated [48]
Best Actor – Drama or Genre Series Harrison Ford Nominated
Best Actress – Drama or Genre Series Helen Mirren Won
Women's Image Network Awards Outstanding Drama Series 1923 Pending
Best Actress – Drama or Genre Series Helen Mirren Pending
Best Actress – Drama or Genre Series Aminah Nieves Pending

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