slo’s 2nd WEDNESDAY 4/5 poll - Yellowstone & 1883 (tv shows)

[scbruno]

Never watched them however i heard they are pretty good.

 

[Praying Colonel]

I've watched Yellowstone twice and re-watching 1883 right now. IMHO Yellowstone is raunchy fun, but 1883 is amazing.

 

[Turn the Page]

I watched most of Yellowstone. I loved it in the beginning, was absolutely obsessed with it and binge watched most of the first 3 seasons.

But.....I'm over it now. The scenery is fantastic, the acting is wonderful, the show is really well done. But they are all TERRIBLE people. None of them can just have a good day and at this point I'm rooting for the bank. The show has become exhausting.

At the end of the day, if I can't have a character to root for I lost interest in the show.

 

[Turn the Page]

Haven’t heard of 1883. Have no interest in watching Yellowstone. Can’t stand Kevin Costner.

What? Kevin's the best!!!

To each their own. I have always liked him but can see why people say he plays the same character all the time.

 

[leebee]

Here I was, all excited for a second Slo poll for the day, only to find that A, I've never heard of either of these shows, and B, the thread is two years old!

 

[mikehn]

This isn’t exactly the Beth and Rip crowd here

 

[Imzadi]

I had no intention of watching either show, even though I like Kevin Costner.

Then Paramount was was showing a marathon of 1883 one weekend and I happened upon the first episode as I was channel surfing. I was intrigued that Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were starring in it together, so I started binge watching. It turns out to be more centered on the daughter (who is a dead ringer for Jennifer Lawrence,) than about their characters, but I was still hooked.

Then I binge watched Yellowstone. It actually took me a bit to get adjusted to the jump in time and that Yellowstone is a modern day version of Dallas except with much more violence. Costner as the patriarch is great. I couldn't stand Beth for the first couple of seasons, but when they explained her back story more, I came to understand her. I love her and Rip.

In case people don't know, the guy who plays Travis, the rodeo guy, in the later seasons, is Taylor Sheridan, the writer/creator of the Yellowstone series.

There is a third series, written to be in between 1883 and current day Yellowstone, called 1923. It stars Harrison Ford & Helen Mirren. I watched part of it, but noticed it is just filled with gratuitous violence. More so than the other two series. I can handle a lot of violence, but the extreme, continual violence and torture were way, way beyond anything necessary. It seemed that Sheridan put it in more for effect than to move the story along. So, I stopped watching 1923. (I think around this point in time, even Costner had decided out of continuing in Yellowstone as he didn't like how that series had changed so much. Publicly, he says Yellowstone conflicts with a new project he's working on.

I think there are plans to make another series in between 1923 & Yellowstone, as it would complete the generations who owned the Dutton ranch. But, I have no interest in it if it continues to be just a tortuous slaugherfest as 1923 is.

 

[CGB]

I was a fan of Yellowstone from the start; however, I feel the story started falling off with the third season. :/ Kinda sucks, because I really like a lot of the characters.

1883? Awesome series for that historical era.

 

[Imzadi]

SPOILER for Season 5B (the continuation):

Spoiler

Kevin Costner just did an interview explaining he will NOT be coming back to do the next and last part of Yellowstone. He said he had already been working on his new series, Horizon. But, then due to the writers & actors strikes, they gave him a long time to work further on that series. And as much as he loved Yellowstone and has a fond place in his heart for those characters and project, he's now deeply involved in this new project and feels Yellowstone is part of his past and won't go back to it. Had all the timing been different, he might have.

 

[_19disnA]

Never heard of 1883 but not really into westerns. We were visiting some relatives who like Yellowstone, so watched a few episodes with them. Not sure why it has all the popularity, nothing special and it just seemed like yet another TV western. Needlessly fowl language certainly don't make it a family-friendly show. Usually big name actors who do movies consider it a step down to do a TV series. Not sure of the background on that here. Thought I saw a recent ad where Costner is doing yet another similar show but don't recall the name.