1883: All Episodes Talk

[chimneyman]

I've just binge-watched 1883 and I found it extremely moving.  But I think I took a very different view of it from most of the reviews and comments which I have read.  For me, the story was mostly about 'man's inhumanity to man' (etc) and the setting was almost incidental.  Most of the people on the trail were fleeing from some kind of horror - some from the recent civil war and some from a miserable life in Europe.  It was only the cowboys and the Indians who were at some kind of peace with themselves but their days were clearly numbered.

I think that most of the practical difficulties and dangers which the members of the wagon train faced were not really any greater than the difficulties which have always been faced by the human race and which continue to be faced today.  I watched the first half of 1923 (episode 1) and it was just more of the same but in a world of brick buildings, religious perversion and motor cars etc.

Edited December 28, 2022 by chimneyman