‘Yellowstone’ Prequel ‘1923’ Season 2 First Look, Release and Recap

Yellowstone prequel collection 1923 — which options film stars Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford atop the Dutton household tree — is returning two years after its season one finale.

The first season of the Taylor Sheridan-created Paramount+ collection launched its finale again in February 2023. After delays from that 12 months’s strikes and the long-gestating (possibly) remaining season of Yellowstone that’s at present airing, 1923 now lastly has a return date: Sunday, Feb. 23.

Along with the premiere date announcement, the Sheridan-verse has launched two teasers and a number of other first-look pictures (all beneath) providing a glimpse into what comes subsequent for 1923‘s Dutton elders when the second and remaining season of the prequel collection returns following the cliffhanger occasions of season one.

In the 2 teasers launched for 1923 season two, Spencer Dutton (Brandon Sklenar) is seen making an attempt to speak the urgency of his return to his household in Montana, as everybody he left behind finds themselves beneath assault, as Spencer’s uncle Jacob Dutton (Ford) says within the footage.

For a refresher (warning: spoilers from each 1883 and 1923 are forward), the second prequel collection to Yellowstone adopted the subsequent technology of Duttons after the occasions of first prequel collection 1883.

With 1923, Sheridan traced the Dutton household lineage again to Jacob and Cara Dutton, performed by Ford and Mirren, the aunt and uncle to Elsa Dutton (Isabel May), who heart-achingly died on the finish of 1883; John Dutton Sr. (performed by James Badge Dale), who viewers met as a younger boy in 1883 and who died within the third episode of 1923; and Spencer Dutton, who 1923 viewers met for the primary time, performed by Sklenar. The trio’s dad and mom had been James Dutton (Tim McGraw) and Margaret Dutton (Faith Hill), who perished between the occasions of 1883 and 1923. Meanwhile, 1923 is narrated by May’s Elsa from past the grave.

The 1923 episode that noticed the dying of John Dutton Sr. additionally left Jacob (Ford) severely wounded, prompting his spouse Cara (Mirren) to step up and run the Dutton household ranch. The first half of the season served as a prologue to the central 1923 story that might start to unfold, because the collection then turned its focus onto the rising Dutton-in-command, Spencer, and his soulmate Alex (Julia Schlaepfer). The remainder of the season hinged on Spencer and Alex’s transcontinental journey again to Bozeman, Montana, to each save the Dutton ranch and his household from exterior threats.

But the finale sophisticated Spencer’s impending return when he and his now-wife, Alex, are separated at sea when Spencer will get banished from their vessel after killing a passenger from Alex’s previous who threatened her future. “All I learn about half two is that I’m sure there’s going to be a shift within the tone, only for Spencer and the present itself,” Sklenar advised The Hollywood Reporter after the finale. “The stakes throughout have been raised to a brand new stage [for season two], and the ache and the guilt that he’s carrying into this subsequent half goes to form him right into a model of himself that we haven’t seen but. If I can speculate because the character, I may see it going there. And then, hopefully, he carries that house and is ready to notice his objective by way of combating for his household and saving the ranch.”

In addition to this heartbreaking Titanic-style goodbye for the present’s central romance (the pair are the highest guess in Yellowstone-verse theories for who the dad and mom are to Costner’s John Dutton; since they’ve but to be recognized), emerged a ray of hope with Teonna Rainwater, the breakout Indigenous character performed by Aminah Nieves. The season’s eight episodes tracked Teonna’s treacherous journey to freedom, displaying ultimately how she is a real survivor.

When viewers first met {the teenager} of Crow descent, Teonna — who hails from the household tree of Yellowstone‘s Chief Rainwater (performed by Gil Birmingham) — was being abused for her refusal to culturally assimilate, shining a lightweight on the Indian boarding-school period when Native youngsters had been despatched to government-funded colleges run by the Catholic Church. Teonna murdered the nuns who abused her and escaped, heading on foot by way of the wilderness the place she contended with wolves and males despatched on horseback to seek out and return her to the top priest. In the finale, she finally prevails when she is reunited together with her father and seems to be falling in love with Pete Plenty Clouds, performed by Cole Brings Plenty. (In a real-life tragedy, nonetheless, Cole Brings Plenty, the nephew to Yellowstone star and franchise marketing consultant Mo Brings Plenty, went lacking and was discovered useless at age 27 three months after the season two finale aired, in April 2024.)

Back on the Dutton household ranch in 1923, there’s additionally John Sr.’s son, Jack (performed by Darren Mann) and spouse Liz (Michelle Randolph, who’s now starring in Sheridan’s new collection Landman), who was revealed on the finish of the season to have had a miscarriage.

The description for 1923 season two reads: “A merciless winter brings new challenges and unfinished enterprise to Jacob (Ford) and Cara (Mirren) again at Dutton ranch. With harsh circumstances and adversaries threatening to finish the Dutton legacy, Spencer (Sklenar) embarks on an arduous journey house, racing towards time to save lots of his household in Montana. Meanwhile, Alexandra (Schlaepfer) units off on her personal harrowing trans-Atlantic journey to seek out Spencer and reclaim their love.”

The forged additionally contains Jerome Flynn, Brian Geraghty, Sebastian Roché, Timothy Dalton and Jennifer Carpenter.  

Similar to the treacherous journey of 1883, 1923 isn’t for the faint of coronary heart. And there may be one season remaining to inform this story of the prohibition-era Wild West throughout a time of each nice drought and growth, and the way this Dutton-centered saga will lead into the occasions of the flagship collection.

Yellowstone, in the meantime, has two episodes remaining of its season 5B, which was introduced as the ultimate season within the flagship collection, although a sixth season has been in talks with fan-favorite stars Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser.

Paramount Network will start a linear re-airing of 1923’s first season this Sunday, Dec. 8, following the brand new episode of Yellowstone. 

1923 is government produced by Yellowstone co-creator Sheridan, David C. Glasser, John Linson, Art Linson, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin, Bob Yari, Ben Richardson, Michael Friedman and Keith Cox. The collection is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution and produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, 101 Studios and Bosque Ranch Productions.

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