“A Yellowstone Origin Story…”

1923 is a Western drama American television series that premiered on December 18, 2022, on Paramount+ and aired its season finale on February 26, 2023. 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.

The series is another origin story in the Yellowstone universe, so it follows the next generation of the Dutton family in 1923, decades after the patriarch, James Dutton (portrayed by Tim McGraw) founded the land in Montana at the end of 1883. 1923, follows his brother, Jacob Dutton, portrayed by Harrison Ford, and the Dutton family during a time of various hardships, including Prohibition, drought, and the early stages of the Great Depression, which affected Montana long before the 1929 Stock Market Crash.

The Paramount+ series stars Helen Mirren as Cara Dutton, Harrison Ford as Jacob Dutton, James Badge Dale as John Dutton Sr., Brandon Sklenar as Spencer Dutton, and Darren Mann as Jack Dutton. They all represent the earlier generation of Dutton’s that lived on the Dutton Ranch long before John Dutton III, played by Kevin Costner, protected it on Yellowstone.

1923 is the Featured Television Blog of the month for February, and with that comes a Critique of the past history of the title of the series, the year 1923 in America. My Featured Blog Critique will take a look at this point in our storied history as a nation and some of what we faced in the “Roaring 20s” that included Prohibition, the 1929 Stock Market Crash, and the Great Depression that resulted from the financial collapse. There is also a Recommendation for the Paramount+ series, with a breakdown of the series by all eight episodes. You can also expect a Review in the Featured Television Blog that revisits the Dutton Family Tree with a revised breakdown that includes the generation of Dutton’s in 1923. Along with an Interview with Harrison Ford as he discusses with Savannah Guthrie of Today what it was like to play the role of Jacob Dutton in Taylor Sheridan‘s expanding universe, and what it was like working in television for the first time at 80 years old. You will also get a Top Ten List commemorating 1923 as a Featured Television Blog with My Top Ten Harrison Ford Movies, which is my top ten movies starring 1923‘s Harrison Ford. But as usual, Movies to History always starts a Featured Television Blog off with the Official Trailer of the featured series. So hop on your horse and ride down the page a bit and watch the trailer of another Yellowstone Origin Story…