Season 2 of “1923″ is well underway. With Episode 3 of the “Yellowstone” prequel around the corner, viewers are not holding back from sharing their opinions on the show’s rather graphic and slow-moving second season.
Warning: spoilers ahead.
While the Season 2 premiere on Paramount+ brought in 5.4 million viewers globally, according to reports by Collider, select fans appear to be growing tired of the pace and the stark contrast to the first season of “1923.” One Reddit user on the r/1923Series subreddit called the second season “lackluster” compared to the first, while another described Season 2 as a “slow-motion train wreck.”
The last time viewers saw two of the show’s main characters, Alexandra “Alex” Dutton (Julia Schlaepfer) and Spencer Dutton (Brandon Sklenar) together was at the end of the first season. With “1923″ Season 2, Episode 3 set to drop at midnight ET on Sunday, March 9, some wish the two would be reunited by now.
The last time fans saw Alex was when she boarded a ship at the end of Season 2’s premiere. As for Spencer, his journey back to the Dutton Ranch in Montana has been further delayed due to angering a few members of the Italian mafia in Galveston, Texas, in Episode 2.
Some viewers point out the differences in pace between “Yellowstone” and “1923,” with one Redditor posting, “More happens in an episode of “Yellowstone” than so far in the first two seasons of this show.”
Aside from the slow-moving pace and the frustration of watching Elizabeth “Liz” Strafford (Michelle Randolph) failed to learn from her mistakes while waiting in Montana for Jack Dutton to return, things have been rather dark in Season 2.
‘1923′ fans are ‘annoyed’ with Season 2 plotlines
From Donald Whitfield (Timothy Dalton) abusing sex workers to Spencer stepping in to save Lucca as he was raped in the Season 2 premiere, the stark contrast between the first and second seasons of “1923″ is hard to miss. And fans do not seem too impressed.
“Anyone get angry at the scenes with Donald Whitfield and those two women,” asked one Reddit user. “I get that they want to show him as an evil rich person but there are other ways.”
Another Redditor expressed similar feelings of frustration and disappointment: “Season 1 started out so great…. But how many times do we need to watch people get beaten, or sex torture and rape, or people getting murdered, or Spencer getting into some new mess…,” they asked. “I’m not squeamish but none of it seems to serve a real purpose.”
