1923 is sitting around #9 to #10 positions on the streamer, across Latin America, including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, El Salvador, Uruguay, and Venezuela. During the last week alone, the average placement holds in the mid-to-high nines. That bottom-of-the-Top-10 grip matters because it points to steady discovery across multiple territories, not a single market’s binge spike.
That’s an intriguing turn for the franchise’s most polarizing detour. Instead of Yellowstone’s modern ranch power games, 1923 plays harsher and slower, and splits its attention between frontier survival and a broader historical lens that asks for patience before the payoff. But the fundamentals are hard to dismiss: the prequel, which launched in 2022, is led by Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, and currently has an 8.3/10 IMDb score alongside a 92% Rotten Tomatoes rating.
What Makes ‘1923’ Polarizing As Compared to ‘1883’
1923, on the other hand, is polarizing because it refuses that simplicity. One episode you’re in Montana watching Jacob (Ford) and Cara Dutton (Mirren) fight a range war with Banner Creighton (Jerome Flynn) and hard winter economics, and the next you’re halfway across the world with Spencer Dutton (Brandon Sklenar) hunting predators and falling into a sweeping romance with Alexandra (Julia Schlaepfer). Then it hard cuts to Teonna Rainwater’s (Aminah Nieves) residential school storyline, which is filmed like a horror drama and is emotionally brutal by design. That willingness to show the machinery of power behind the Dutton myth is interesting, but the tone whiplash makes it colder, slower, and harder to emotionally lock into than 1883. Still, it’s clearly a massively popular show and has a loyal legion of fans.
