1923
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I dont generally take the politics of the Taylor Sheridan Universe too seriously.
She can be a jester and a magician and sometimes plain annoying.
But its never occurred to me to engage with their anti-progress, anti-city, woe-is-me griping.
Until this week, the Duttons moth-eaten values seemed mostly to exist in service of the plot.
So far, so Hobbesian.
Their conversation is a little ugly but overall familiar.
Parents are uptight; kids are idealistic.
If youre not a conservative by the time youre 40, you have no brain.
She seems to represent a distrust in the media and in American institutions thats in the ascendancy right now.
Caras got no evidence that the papers are deceiving her, just an intuition she believes in regardless.
This isnt the news, Jack.
before the end of tomorrow.
I think the smart money has to be on Whitfield here.
Better to have a judge in your pocket than a sheriff.
(I guess Mrs. Creighton and son are still living in the log-and-sod cabin in the hills?)
This is what happens to men when theyre exposed to life inside city limits.
Hes dragged off to the clink looking every part the debauchee in his silk robe and slippered feet.
The vignette hes authored doesnt even seem to make him horny.
He leans back into the kitchen cabinets, looking self-satisfied.
Hes rich enough and powerful enough to orchestrate this particular torture.
Incidentally, the scene marks the end of our one-week reprieve from watching women get beaten.
The answer is that bad news travels simultaneously.
If only they had stayed together!
(I think his name is Pete after rummaging around in the end credits.)
For this particular priest, America is only the latest stop on his salvation world tour.
Why cant the Indians be more like the Argentine Aboriginals he converted last week?
Luckily, before his pseudo-Catholic speechifying results in another dead teenager, Runs His Horse tracks them down.
He scalps the priest and eats his soul, which Im guessing is in his heart.
Anyway, that guy didnt really seem to possess much of a soul to begin with.
Teonna bashes the last breathing Jesuit in the skull with a rock, but there are no winners here.
Just dead Catholics and dead and traumatized Natives.
When Spencer pledges himself indebted to the captain, Shipley shakes it off.
Alexandra continues to be her vivacious self, but its not so bothersome when theyre on vacation.
Her shtick works when the situation is frivolous.
Plus Spencer really does need her in his own way.
I mean he cant even recognize an arancini.
Its her pipsqueak old fiance, but rather than look amused by the coincidence, she looks stricken.
Maybe its just that this is her last chance to ditch and run.
Her old life, easy and reliable, has crisscrossed with this hardscrabble new one.
Is this where she gets off the Oregon Trail and back on the grand tour?
