A British aristocrat was engaged to another toff met a young American veteran dashing on Safari in 1923. She fell in love with him and breaks her commitment; He overcomes his persistent post-traumatic stressful stress disorder of the First World War, with the help of his love. It seems good so far – but this aristocrat, Alexandra de Sussex, has made a crucial error: she fell in love with Spencer Dutton, who comes from the most cursed family in training in the United States, and she is a character of Taylor Sheridan’s’s’s Yellowstone prequel, 1923which ended on Sunday with a two -hour final on Paramount +.
At the end of act I of the romance of the pair, Spencer (played by Brandon Sklenar) realized that his aunt wrote to beg him to return to their ranch in Montana because she is threatened with a loss because of the machinations of a capitalist villain. And with that, the honeymoon becomes a nightmare. At the end of season 1, Alex (Julia Schlaepfer) and Spencer were escaped on a shipwrecked boat, picked up by another, married by his captain, and separated after Spencer killed Alex’s ex-fiancé. (It is a justifiable homicide, of course; as another character says the uncle of Spencer, Jacob, you know that he is not really bad, like his rival, because even if he will “take”, and do not care if you suffer, it is not appreciate your suffering. It is the narrow and American virtue of the Dutton family.)
Season 2 of 1923 sees the beginning of the real Alexandra’s real events, as she embarks on a set of solo boats, trains and cars. Alex becomes determined to find Spencer when she discovers – while being kept prisoner by her family in England – that she is pregnant. She makes a transatlantic trip during the direction, heads in front of the guards at Ellis Island, is robbed before getting on a west train, must temporarily work as a server on the train to pay for food, gets waved by a guest, is blocked by a snowstorm that blocks the tracks, connects to an English couple who gets up to the storm after the Gas montana. In the last episode on Sunday evening, “A Dream and a Memory”, Alex is rescued by Spencer, who spots his wife on a passing train. She discovers that her hands and feet are black with frostbite in the third degree, delivers her baby to a six -month gestation, then dies in the arms of Spencer, having refused an operation to treat the gangrene which takes place because it does not want to be disabled (to have “heels for feet and clubs for the hands”, because she puts him) and wants to spend her precious time.
Yes, this is the whole story of what happened to Alexandra Dutton. There are more lines in 1923 ‘S second season Beyond the romance of Spencer and Alex – on the Ranch, Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, playing uncle Jacob Dutton and aunt Cara de Spencer, hold things up; The teenager of Crow Teonna Rainwater (Aminah Nieves) is on the range, trying to escape the marshals determined to arrest him for the killings of the nuns who mistreated her in a boarding school; Donald Whitfield (Timothy Dalton), this capitalist villain with his eye on the Ranch Dutton, tortures prostitutes in his mansion and conferences of banquets full of industrial colleagues on the way tourism is the next great money for Montana – but Will Spencer and Alex Retounite, and Will Alex will ever see the most entertaining and the most motivating of this forecast particular. And “No!” – Seems to drive most people on Reddit who hate this result, and most people on IMDB who love it.
Like any Taylor Sheridan product, this last episode of 1923 contains indelible moments. I will never forget the revelation of these frozen ends as a doctor who withdraws the stockings and the fancy gloves of Alex, or the birth scene, where the smallest baby CGI that I have ever seen to wiggle this poor suffering lady. Jacob Dutton, who is also in the hospital because some of his bullet injuries partially healed in the show recovered during a shooting on the train with the henchmen of Whitfield (of course!), Detroise against the wall, fixing the infant preemia with a mixture of sadness and horror. (For once, a scene in 1923 In fact, the talents of Harrison Ford.) It was before the generalized adoption of incubators for infants, so all the people involved, except maybe that Alex believes that this baby will not last long.
But “the mother who would choose above her child is not at all a mother,” explains Alex. The way she describes what doctors want to do-“Take my legs, and my hand and my baby, and throw them like waste”-continues anti-establishmentarian, anti-expertise and, I dare to say, an anti-abortion policy that emerged earlier in the series, when Alex was talking to her way through Ellis. We see that Alex’s choice is the choice of a Dutton when Jacob defends himself to doctors, ordering them to do what she says. He describes her later with admiration to Cara, who can never meet her, like “Mustang Wild”, as “if a shooting star could speak”.
A reading of what happens to Alex is that Sheridan likes to build strong female characters only to make them suffer. 1923 is told by Elsa, the older sister of Spencer, who died at the end of the previous prequel, 1883. And Teonna, whose intrigue winds this season and is quickly wrapped in the head when a judge rejects her case, loses everyone – father, lover, house – before finding freedom. “You were right to retaliate,” said a native assistant marshal who helps him with a horse and supplies. “Maybe. But it cost me everything, ”she said. “The fact always,” he replies. I have come to think, over too many years of looking at the Sheridanverse, that he really believes that he honors these women by letting them undergo these trials – and shows that these women will obstinately support, even to death. His icon is Cara Dutton, pulling on the shooters who approached Whitfield from a superior window of his house, mumbled: “Of all that I did for this ranch, it takes the cake.”
As shown in the hasty conclusion of Teonna, the edges of 1923 The finish betrays the effilate of a television program written by a guy who insists on doing it alone. Would gangrene really kill Alex so fast? Why should the Dents have been waiting for Spencer to come back to defend the ranch against Whitfield? It is practical with an elephant gun, and maybe they needed the person who had killed Whitfield to be a Dutton, for reasons of cosmic justice, but the culminating shootings are finished so shortly after his arrival as a child, in town and orders him to fall in love with someone else? Which will happen to Alex and Spencer’s baby – who will become John Dutton, grandfather of the character of Kevin Costner Yellowstone– When Cara, who must be 80 years old if she is a day, can no longer worry about him?
Some of these things will probably be treated in 1944The next prequel to the universe of Yellowstone, which could – gave the chronologies – we give another look at an aged Spence and a twenty -year version of this incredibly small baby. (I bet that he will not suffer too much from the circumstances of his birth; such a bodily weakness would not be very from him.) One thing that we discovered last night, in a voice of hasty voice of the Elsa ghost: Spencer will never get married again. He “will comfort himself in a widow” and the father of another son, because Taylor Sheridan would not want to leave a hero without sex throughout his life, but he will pinch so hard for Alex that he will never be happy again. Well, this love cost Alex. It is only fair.
