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Binge-watching Paramount+
1923
Fingers crossed for this one.
I’m halfway through S1, EP 1 and still don’t know why we opened with a man killing a lion in Africa.
We bounce back and forth from him in Africa and the Duttons on the now-established Yellowstone Ranch.
Already we see another Dutton with PTSD. In 1883 many men had PTSD and night terrors from the Civil War. This one is from fighting the Germans.
Immigration was an issue back then too apparently since an Irishman wants to argue about how his sheep are starving thanks to the drought. Totally escapes him that if there’s a drought then that means all ranchers and farmers are suffering not just him. He thinks it’s perfectly okay to allow his animals to graze on another man’s property so they won’t starve.
While I get his thinking, thinking a thing is not the same as the law which is another thing in this instance. Four men hung. One manages to survive. The senior Dutton hoped that at least one survived so he could tell the rest of the world that the Duttons were not to be fucked with.
Message received.
I have yet to figure out what the school for Native American girls who are being abused by nuns has to do with the Duttons. I’m guessing time will tell.
