OMG! We still have Episode 11 to go - to tie some loose ends together... But OMG! I don't know if I can take anymore...
This Series just mule-kicks you in the head from the first episode, and then horse-drags your emotions through the briars, sagebrush, and gravel until it rips out your heart and does a dance on your face. I'm a full grown man, and I cried so hard when Ennis got killed and Elsa killed the killer then crumbled down beside him on the ground. Now I'm trying to write this... Dammit! You know, If 'Yellowstone' and '1883' don't literally sweep the SAG Awards, Golden Globes, Emmy Awards, and Oscars, then Hokkywood and our entire entertainment media establishment has become so corrupted and is so decadent with frivolous 'social justice' issues that they cannot see the forest because of the buttercups. They are worthless as any kind of reference to excellence in the performing arts. (Like the Pulitzer prize becoming a mutual pat on the back for propagandizing the biggest political hoax in our nation's history.)
In both Yellowstone and 1883, every scene; every frame of every scene; every nuance of every interaction within every scene; is breathtaking... a literal work of art. The character portrayals are nothing short of phenomenal... And the cinematography, so integral to the impact of the story, reaches a level of mastery that I have never witnessed before... with the exception perhaps being 1990's 'Dances With Wolves', which is another American Epic fraught with the joy and sorrow of our nation's creation.
The primary thesis I gleaned from '1883" so far, as so eloquently stated by Elsa's narrative during her death's journey in Episode 10, remains the same today: "To survive the frontier, you must learn to recognize those who won't and be weary of their doomed decisions. They are to be avoided at all costs - because their fear is tragedy's closest cousin. And tragedy is contagious in this place."
All you have to do is substitute the concept "today's world" for "the frontier" then zoom-out to 50-thousand-feet and really examine what's happening today... right now... even as we speak.
Much more of this, and I'm going to need a full-on emotional support group.
