SkyShowtime is literally going to occupy this section of the web. The platform that just arrived in Spain a few weeks ago has landed like a tsunami. 43 new series released all at once, and 5 of them from creator and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan (Sicario, Comanchería). I wouldn't know if 1883 is the best, because Yellowstone, 1923, Tulsa King and Mayor of Kingstown are all in a higher category. The most admirable thing is that each of them has its own voice, within a dialectic marked by violence and the context of the characters, usually close to police stations and prisons.
1883 has an exceptional quartet of protagonists. Parents with a daughter on the verge of adulthood who are determined to survive a dangerous journey to the American West, and a veteran scarred in a thousand deaths and battles. He is the one who leads this nomadic population, and sustains the best moments of the series, with fantastic dialogues that define a luminous loser, an immortal in a permanent state of reconstruction.
At almost 80 years old, Sam Elliot had appeared in major films and series, but his 120 characters have been more in the B series of cinema and television. Here he unfolds an extraordinary character that unites several generations of westerns with admirable naturalness. 1883 draws as much from Ford's Stagecoach as from Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. Likewise, the very young Isabel May plays an indomitable heiress of a legacy in which Mauren O'Hara, Marlene Dietrich or Jodie Foster have shone.
The miniseries has drama, romance and action, with a literary voice-over that gives the story depth and truth. A modern western that drinks from the classic, with a cinematic language of immortal craftsmanship in editing, soundtrack, planning and production design.
Claudio Sanchez
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