1883

Excellent writing, character development, story telling, and acting, particularly by Dawn Olivieri, the character of Claire, and the great Sam Elliot. Beautiful cinematography and score. I enjoyed the cameos by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Hanks. The migration west after the Civil War is one of my favorite periods in history, and the brutality of the time period and lawlessness of the Wild West was accurately portrayed.

This could have been fascinating history told in its raw form. Unfortunately, the show loses its identity at certain points through out the season. The show focuses on settlers emigrating the Oregon trail and challenges they face. It then, starts to mix in narrations by a teenage girl named Elsa and her teenage drama issues. At certain points in the show I'm getting confused at who the target audience is? I felt if the writing was a consistent story towards the emigration of settlers it would have been more successful. Instead we are plagued with a mixture of teenage drama issues which becomes tedious to watch at times.

Just amazing! This group behind Yellowstone and 1883 are just so amazing I can't thank you all enough for putting out a series that we can really dig into and enjoy! I was so enthralled I never wanted it to end. I only wish I could binge the whole season RIGHT NOW. Please keep making series like these. Emotional, heartfelt, relatable, and with so much depth and character! Spectacular acting! I could go on and on! Just WOW thank you. These are the people who should be winning the awards for best series, best script/writing, best acting etc. Etc. A huge thank you.

I have to say that I really enjoyed 1883 even more than I thought I wound. This is the prequel to Yellowstone as it shows the Dutton family as they travel from Texas to Montana looking for a better life. It's created by Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone, Mayor of Kingstown, etc.). Sheridan has turned in one great show after another and this one is no different. It's a very gritty and violent show that showed off the realness of the Wild West. The writing and acting is what makes this show so special. It's too bad that this is only a mini-series and there aren't more seasons coming because I would love to see more from this show.

I quit watching Yellowstone because any semblance of humanity was gone on the show. Everyone simply tried to one-up the other for how ruthless and evil they could be. John Dutton and family are no better than any criminal element portrayed on the show. It became for me, a prime time soap opera.

Having said that the prequel 1883 is anything but. It is extremely well written and acted and beside people having beautiful write teeth and perfect complexions, I feel it accurately depicts the life that these pioneers experienced. The actors seem so natural in their roles, indicating a lot of effort has been taken to make it appear as authentic as possible. The writing is very good and in a much larger sense gets you into the psyche of a family who would knowingly enter into this arrangement to travel the Oregon Trail, knowing the risk. Life previously had to be hell in order for them to risk it all on a journey like this. I think the writing and dialog help to get the background as to why someone would take such drastic measures to try to find a better life.

It is so well done that I can only watch one episode at a time since each one is so full of emotion that it takes a minute to process.

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are surprisingly good and believable as a pioneering couple. The rest of the cast is terrific. The narration by the Dutton daughter really pulls it together.

Sam Elliott was born to play this role. He is fantastic!!! Just simply fantastic! Reminds me in some ways of when I watched Lonesome Dove and how I felt about Duvall and Jones, more so Duvall. I can't quite picture anyone else playing this part.

I hope 1923 is just as good.