1923 review: Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren lead intriguing Yellowstone prequel

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The latest show in the Taylor Sheridan universe features strong performances from two elder statesmen of the screen

, is the most-watched linear TV show in America behind NFL football. It is best described not as a “red-state show” or “Republican Succession” but as a soap opera about property rights: between the mega-ranch-owning Dutton family, long-displaced Native Americans, and the gentrifiers/coastal elites whose land development threatens a pastoral way of life.

Much of 1923’s hour-long premiere – the only episode made available for review – is similarly expository, stage-setting ambitiously disparate pieces that will presumably come together for a Sheridan-esque power struggle amid panoramic mountain vistas. Director Ben Richardson takes the landscape appreciation global, with several gorgeous shots of the African savanna.

The bulk of Ford’s screen time goes to this convincing-enough embodiment of moral authority in the not-as-wild West; his sandpaper gravitas is already more compelling than Costner’s. Save her brutal opening salvo, Mirren’s Irish-accented Cara is confined in the premiere to the role of chastened, world-weary ranch wife. Mirren is over-qualified for Cara’s speechifying on the bargain that is the “way of life”, which skews cliched and corny .

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