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1923 Series-Finale Recap: Meet Me in Bozeman
The farther this epic sprawls across the 20th century, the more it seems that saving the Yellowstone is the real tragedy.
Setting aside the series’ heaven-set, Titanic-indebted coda, the final image we get of the Yellowstone is this: A childless 80-year old man, his body equal parts skin and scars, sits with his drolly acerbic wife on the freezing cold front porch, clutching their motherless grandnephew — a pipsqueak of a baby born three months too soon. Perhaps this is the showrunner seeding Thomas Rainwater’s eventual Yellowstone biography — how the one-day Chief of the Confederated Tribes of Broken Rock could be a descendant of Teonna’s and grow up not knowing it. After witnessing an abducted sex worker in Whitfield’s stocks and leaving her there in last week’s episode, Banner lives through the dark night of his soul to realize he’s on the wrong side.
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