1883: A Yellowstone Origin Story
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': "Took until episode 6 for the political correctness and EVIL white man and cities to come out !! And of course she has to have sex with EVERY one who comes along! This time an Indian to virtue signal how good she is versus the evil white man !!! Rather than keep political correctness out and show the hardships of our pioneers, this show started good but has become NOTHING but a Hollywood attack on Western Civilization and a glorification of tribal Indians who fought and killed each other for centuries before the White Man came. And once the Indians captured and exploited the horse that the Spaniards brought, the Indians butchered more Buffalo than they could eat driving them off cliffs. And where without the horse it would take them all year to sustain themselves, the horse let them do so quickly and what did the noble Indians do with the time on their hands? They raided and attacked each other! The Commanche were a no nothing tribe before the horse! After the Horse, they became the LARGEST and MOST dominant tribe on the plains and ran the Apache off to the bad lands in New Mexico!! Done with this crap series, it is how I knew it would end up, a TOTAL Hollywood attack on Western Civilization and our Pioneers while making the Indians the no blame heroes! And give me a break, NO FN Indian Warrior would be treating ANY woman Squaw as his equal! Are we going to see miss Lightening Golden Hair spread her legs become a Squaw and be treated in a warrior men's society as such? Watch her make his dinner and fetch him water? Hey when she just fd him asking how to say this or that, he should tell him how to understand Squaw get my water, Squaw make me breakfast, Squaw wash my hair!!! This show is such completed CRAP treating her as if Indians treated their women as Equal which is COMPLETE Hollywood Crap!!! A Warrior would NOT even have any discussions as equals with her !!! Hell no, we will see Mr Indian husband killed by evil White men and then Ms Lightening Golden Hair Spread Her Legs coming back to the group lecturing on the Utopia of Tribal life! And GIVE me a BREAK, Western Europeans who introduced the Horse to America have to be instructed by the Indian Hero how to break them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One day we ancestors of our Pioneers will create our own movies and not this Hollywood Leftist CRAP! NO European woman on the Plains would act like Ms Lightening Golden Hair Spread Her Legs does in this COMPLETE GARBAGE and Hollywood Propaganda crap series!\nYet ANOTHER Hollywood fabrication of HATE for our Pioneers who built this Nation into a great country!! Hey Ms Lightening Hair with Your Legs Spread !! NO WOMAN in Pioneer History other than those who became HORES would even THINK about being the slut you are in this series !! But that is Hollywood painting their immoral life style on our Pioneers which is COMPLETELY fabricated and NOT True !! My Family were Pioneers who DIED settling the West and this is the BIGGEST CRAP Series All about Ms Lighting Hair Spread her Legs than TRUTH !! Oh now she is the wife of a Warrior !!!! GOD what a disappointing piece of Hollywood fabrication TOTALLY anti Western Civilization and TOTALLY part of the Indian Political Correctness of their perfection!! REALLY, how about in 1622 the wonderful peace loving Indians Massacred 1/3 of ALL men, women, and children in the Colony of Virginia !!!! Like I said one day we will make our own videos of our Pioneers and NOT all this WOKE crap! Shame on you Sam Elliot for falling for this WOKE series !!"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I cant believe Ms. May wasn't nominated ;-( Madam you were robed!!!!!!!!!!!!\n\nCongrats to the entire film crew especially Bob from accounting, way to keep those numbers straight ;-)\n\nCan't wait for S2!!"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'If you are reading 1-star reviews, you are wasting your time. This series is the best drama produced in my memory. Well written, well cast, well acted, fantastic cinematography. Instead of reading reviews, watch the first episode and see for yourself. As to language concerns, there are 10 episodes. The dreaded f-bomb probably occurs about 10 times, and mostly in a single episode from a particularly coarse character. Is it boring? Well if you are looking for lots of CGI special effects, then yes it\'s boring. This is a story of pioneering. And guess what? Travel by wagon without interstates was slow! In any case, this was so NOT BORING I had to force myself to bed to prevent over-bingeing. Are people upset because the main character is a strong female? Is the series a high fidelity representation of "how it was"? Well probably not, but in addition to the backdrop of pioneering they are also telling a coming of age story, and well it\'s Hollywood. Stylized is to be expected. If you want factual historical perspective I am sure there is something on the history channel for you, or maybe read a book.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': "I don't often write reviews on shows but felt compelled because I wanted to like this series so much. What this show does good at is have a solid bases for a storyline. Death and hardship was a constant companion to many of those wagon trains and the show does well at making you see and feel it on a emotional level. Where they lost me was with Elsa's story and the unrealistic decisions mixed with a personal belief bias.\n\nI can get by with a few unrealistic decisions and battles but there was far too many for me to get past. The most obvious one was with the violent conflicts between the main characters and any form of enemy they dealt with, many of the gun battles that took place were with 2 to 3 heroes against odds as high as 5:1 or even higher. Somehow 3 guys can outshoot a group of 12 renegades while being surrounded on all sides while the renegades are mounted and they are on foot and come off almost always unscathed ? Events similar to that happened too many times. If they portrayed this more realistic many of the main characters would be dead. Somehow Faith Hills character can pull out a shotgun from a difficult position while mounted and blow a rider off a horse while said rider is pointing his handgun at her already is ludacris.\n\nElsa's story bugged me the most, her journey of losing her innocent view on the world in the west was cringe worthy. It has a do whatever you want if it feels good vibe to it, Many of the women of her age in that era on those wagon trains had very Christian views and were almost the exact opposite of how Elsa was in the show. They wouldn't sleep with their crush in the middle of camp after knowing him only a couple of weeks nor would they up and marry a Comanche warrior just cause he said their hair was pretty. In fact by that time period most Comanches were put on a reservation by then and the few that were not were almost always hostile and did not speak English, the romance story with her was to corny.\n\nThe Series seemed to have a strong underlying agenda to promote a feministic narrative while being dressed up as a western, Elsa's character and her parents broke the historically accurate role that most families would have played back then. No caring father back then would take his daughter to herd dangerous longhorn cattle with a bunch of rough cowboys back then. Let alone leave her to watch the cattle herd weeks on end and be left alone with two strange cowboys, the women on the wagon trains back then stayed close to the wagons and had different roles and jobs to do. To clarify I am not a sexist I am not saying women cant do any of those things they most certainly can and I'm glad things have changed but if your trying to make a realistic western show about a wagon train in the 1880s make it more accurate to what is was and don't to push a message or agenda no matter what it is. Showing that women didn't shave their armpits is true that's a nice subtle touch to how it was but then having every cowboy sporting a two gun belt is a major fallacy. Men rarely carried two pistols with them due to the heavy cumbersome nature of them and the fact that firearms back then were extremely expensive. If your going to try and make it realistic don't just make it realistic to the message your promoting.\n\nI hope the next season will be better, this show had such great potential Sam Elliot and Tim McGraw do a fantastic job acting, along with the story line but it just seemed to get bogged down in to many irrelevant things and unrealistic situations but I guess that's Hollywood."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-2 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Beautiful scenery helps, but drawn out scenes of cattle grazing?? It can e like pulling teeth waiting for something interesting to occur.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': "I'm sorry, I really wanted to like this series but there are so many things wrong. Faith Hill looks hideous along with her bad acting. Tim McGraw slumps around riding his horse....sit up straight, not to mention how angry he is throughout all 5 episodes so far. I'm not liking any of these characters so far. All the inaccuracies are just grinding on my nerves. I'm afraid I'll have to stop watching at this point. Only gave it one star because I couldn't give it none."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-2 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Elsa, apparently the main character/narrator that the story is being told through (droning voice, bad accent and overly flowery-poetic dialogue is akin to a mild sedative) wears preposterous clothing, long, peroxided blonde hair flowing in the breeze at all times that screams, "Hey! I\'m a girlie girl beneath it all! All eyes on me!" - which would be INCREDIBLY dangerous for a female back then in those circumstances.\n\nShe has impossibly straight, white teeth, wears eyeliner, a corseted waistline (even though she\'s riding the range) doesn\'t need sunscreen, you get the idea...translation, \'eye candy for the guys\'. Ridiculous, fantasy heroine that would not survive one day on the subway, let alone in a frontier setting. She is allowed so much freedom from parents that are Southern and a daddy who was a rebel soldier (I cannot even begin to imagine this scenerio in that time period, let alone now even, but hey I\'m no historical scholar...but would one please weigh in here?).\n\nElsa gets into all sorts of modern mis-adventures with men while she is 18 yrs of age that would have led to something else besides sheer romance, etc., all the male fantasy aspects of the lead female character you\'d expect that has no basis in reality and is just there basically as fodder for men to look at, nothing for women to admire or relate to. Tiresome and stupid depiction, she\'s like a western blow up doll and ruins the entire series for me.\n\nNext, people complained about bad language. I\'ve watched every episode so far and there are so few f-bombs they are barely worth mentioning and if this bothers you, I\'m sure there are other things to watch on a homogenized channel that has been scrubbed clean of all reality so you are not offended. People in real life occasionally swear. Given the circumstances of their journey, I can\'t believe it\'s not a non-stop curse fest.\n\nRe: THE VIOLENCE. It\'s a historical western, there is violence in westerns and action flicks. It\'s kind of unrealistic to expect it to be anything else and unfortunately it\'s 2022 and the violence just keeps getting amp\'d up to keep modern viewers shocked and engaged.\n\nSam Elliott is brilliant, I\'ve honestly never seen so much emotion given to a male character from any time period. He\'s rough, he\'s rugged, but the character has been through a lot and all aspects of what he\'s experienced are addressed and expressed which is so rare for this kind of macho character. Unlike John Wayne\'s toxic, absurd depictions of masculinity that has poisoned the minds of too many men, it\'s raw, it\'s real, he\'s fantastic and has given his character so much depth and dimension. He cries people, have you ever seen a cowboy flick where one of the main characters has any kind of realism or soul? He\'s carrying this series, he\'s the only reason I did not give it one star, let\'s move on.\n\nTim McGraw and Faith Hill are kind of silly mis-casts IMO, they don\'t do a bad job, not at all. McGraw especially I thought did a very fine job, but I dunno, it just is doofy to me when a Country Western star wants to take the job of a more seasoned, more deserving actor. Stay in your lane IMO, but again, they do a good job and don\'t ruin the series for me. Their teeth that are as white as a porcelain sink are really distracting, I don\'t think this level of dentistry existed in 1883.\n\nSPOILER ALERT FOR EPISODE 7:\nAll in all, it\'s an okay watch, but the further I get into the series, the more I lose interest in it overall due to sheer absurdity involving Elsa. For instance, a tornado hits, Elsa is with a hot Native American (who is also a model in real life) who holds her while the tornado is ripping through the landscape. Suddenly she decides she is so turned on and she has to initiate a hot passionate kiss with \'Sam\', the Native American character she\'s known for about 20 minutes. OMG please okay? Nothing makes a girl hotter than a deadly tornado swirling overhead and where did this character come from out of nowhere. At least there is briefly some eye candy for the women, but wow, what an overly ridiculous scene and chances are you won\'t see him again in future episodes.\n\nSilly, sometimes stupid depictions, very depressing and so far plodding along at a pace that makes you feel as if you are genuinely on the journey with them. Characters that appear out of the mist and disappear just as quickly, dismissal of the European characters (except that they are portrayed as stupid, slow, weak and mostly invisible. I don\'t know what they are trying to convey here, but that is grossly unfair). The writing is kind of sub par and they really need a good female writer to weigh in on the Elsa character who has just gotten plain comical. The female gypsy is portrayed as being without shame and throws herself at anything with a kickstand because she\'s desparate. Another horrible portrayal of a female character.\n\nDefinitely more of a mindless \'manly man\' flick. Swearing, adventurous fantasy-Blondie that will probably wind up in Maxim at some point, lots of over the top violence, very little plot and silly, insulting portrayals of immigrants, females and Native Americans.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Signed up with Paramount+ Enjoyed the first three episodes and the 4th was said (by them) to air last Sunday night, but it did not air. Many people and a number of articles published asking what is going on? So far, no answer (that I have been able to find) from Amazon or Paramount as to why it was not broadcast. Perhaps we have missed something, but all we hear from friends who have been watching and sharing comments with us about each one of the first 3 episodes is what happened? Is there a problem with the series, is there a new broadcast date? Why no communication, no response to questions?'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-2 review-rating', 'review_body': '1883 characters are most excellently portrayed. The storyline is interesting. The landscape settings are as wide open as the sea. And I feel most fortunate as a woman that I was not born during the time of the settlement of America. I pray that the cruelty of men and women of that time was not as depicted in this series.\nThe "F" word is actually an acronym from New Testament scripture in the Bible that says, you shall not Fornicate Under Carnal Knowledge, which means not to have sexual activity that is not approved of by God. This includes sex before marriage, sex outside your marriage, sex with your same gender, sex with animals, etc. But American\'s and the rest of the world have coined the word and given God\'s command an evil twist lol. Many use it crudely to mean they hope the person they are angry at gets sexually assaulted. But we also coined it to mean a lot of other things. What the "F" now means, what is going on, I can\'t believe it, that\'s messed up, that\'s wonderful, depending on sentence structure and voice inflection. It has become a multipurpose word than can be a disgusting insult or a short word for other thoughts. Many words such as "ass" have multiple meanings too. So, one must look at the intent of the person who speaks the "F" word lol. It is an acronym formed from God\'s words informing us what sexual conduct is "not" OK by the One who created us. But because it was at first used so crudely and inappropriately in meaning many find it offensive. And to hear a child use it just sounds wrong and disrespectful. Those with children or those who have been abused with that word have the right to be offended and the right to say stop it. Put a little love in your speech and think of others as having as much right not to hear it as you have to say it, please.\nBut episode 7 was disturbing. As an American Indian saved a white woman from an attack by murderous thieves the words were how "glorious" both the Indian was in killing and how "glorious" the woman spoke of it as being, like worshiping the act of killing a person and considering it joyful was sickening to me. Have we become the Romans who killed people in coliseums with gladiators for entertainment? This program incrementally disintegrated morally with each episode while remaining well-acted and beautifully photographed. Its guts rotted out, so I gave it 2 stars.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "Confused by all the poor reviews mentioning foul language. I didn't notice a lot of bad language but it doesn't really bother me anyways. Kind of surprised that people still get upset about language in this day and age. lol I'm a parent myself and I wouldn't let my kid watch this but it's fine for adults. Loved the show so far. You really get transported back to a different time. The acting is very good and believable as well. I'm only sad that amazon hasn't uploaded episode 4 yet because it was supposed to be released all ready. This has happened before on amazon with a different show. Amazon needs to make sure they are uploading episodes when they are supposed to be uploaded."}]