Anonymous wrote:I haven't heard anything about new episodes of this. Was it a one season spin off?

Anonymous wrote:I love it and think it's the best TV I've watched.

Would love to see Sam and Elsa's story continue but she's in.... a bad place after last Sunday's episode.

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Anonymous wrote:okay I had to grit my teeth to watch this show because I loved parts of it and simultaneously hated other parts of it.

I really wanted to watch the story of the characters getting across America. It was so interesting, how people lived and died trying to do that.

There were a lot of things that didn't hang together in the show, but I could easily ignore/forgive the writers for that.

But the more the show turned into "The Elsa Show," the more I was frustrated.

I do NOT want to sit around and listen to self-absorbed teen who thinks she is so deep....thinks she has more experience than either of her parents, thinks she is soooo wise of the ways of the world, and nothing to learn for anyone--ANYONE--around her.

Her voiceover thoughts were so over the top. And monotone. (And btw, how the f does she know that "even stars die"?)

And in person, she's insufferable. I swear, when her dad was saying "you're the most important thing to me in the world," all I could think of is, "Why?"

And btw her version of heaven does NOT include the man who JUST SAID "you're the most important thing to me in the world" and who is going to LIVE the rest of his life at the spot where she dies so as to remember her. Or, the cowboy that she loved, oh, but forgot about in ONE WEEK.

Finally, I never could get over her hair. It's so fake. I think they made it that way to match Beth Dutton's in "Yellowstone"--sort of to evoke and explain where Beth gets her spirit--but while Beth's fake dyed hair is fine because bleaching hair is part of today's culture, it is just too fake for the 1800s. If they wanted a blonde, they needed to cast a real blonde. And lose the eyeliner and mascara too. In sum, both in behavior and appearance, Elsa was just too modern to be believable.

NP - wow, I agree with everything you wrote! At first, I was interested and intrigued by this story, but I can't seem to get past episode three. I'm going to have to grit my teeth like you did, just to finish up. And yes, Elsa's monotone and fake blond hair are so distracting. She's a pretty girl and a good actress for the most part, but those voiceovers are so tiresome. I do like the way she's got a tan and freckles - that is believable considering all the time spent outside.

I love Tim McGraw and think he's an excellent actor. Of course, so is Sam Elliott but I can't understand a WORD the man says.

You sound like you're laying the blame for the bad parts of the show at a young actresses feet. It's not her fault. It is appallingly written - Taylor Sheridan has literally never written well for women, he has that whole madonna /whore syndrome going on and it is achingly painful to watch.
Also the hair and make up - those are director choices. And yes, they're bad ones.

Anonymous wrote:Spoiler here. Although it seems like no one cares.

I watched the finale - and cried, although I felt like they could have tied it up nicely with showing James and Margaret building their homestead. Maybe just an aerial shot of a small cabin (future Dutton Ranch). Something!

Also I'm assuming that Sam had also died around the time Elsa did which is why they showed Elsa and Sam together in "heaven".

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Anonymous wrote:okay I had to grit my teeth to watch this show because I loved parts of it and simultaneously hated other parts of it.

I really wanted to watch the story of the characters getting across America. It was so interesting, how people lived and died trying to do that.

There were a lot of things that didn't hang together in the show, but I could easily ignore/forgive the writers for that.

But the more the show turned into "The Elsa Show," the more I was frustrated.

I do NOT want to sit around and listen to self-absorbed teen who thinks she is so deep....thinks she has more experience than either of her parents, thinks she is soooo wise of the ways of the world, and nothing to learn for anyone--ANYONE--around her.

Her voiceover thoughts were so over the top. And monotone. (And btw, how the f does she know that "even stars die"?)

And in person, she's insufferable. I swear, when her dad was saying "you're the most important thing to me in the world," all I could think of is, "Why?"

And btw her version of heaven does NOT include the man who JUST SAID "you're the most important thing to me in the world" and who is going to LIVE the rest of his life at the spot where she dies so as to remember her. Or, the cowboy that she loved, oh, but forgot about in ONE WEEK.

Finally, I never could get over her hair. It's so fake. I think they made it that way to match Beth Dutton's in "Yellowstone"--sort of to evoke and explain where Beth gets her spirit--but while Beth's fake dyed hair is fine because bleaching hair is part of today's culture, it is just too fake for the 1800s. If they wanted a blonde, they needed to cast a real blonde. And lose the eyeliner and mascara too. In sum, both in behavior and appearance, Elsa was just too modern to be believable.

NP - wow, I agree with everything you wrote! At first, I was interested and intrigued by this story, but I can't seem to get past episode three. I'm going to have to grit my teeth like you did, just to finish up. And yes, Elsa's monotone and fake blond hair are so distracting. She's a pretty girl and a good actress for the most part, but those voiceovers are so tiresome. I do like the way she's got a tan and freckles - that is believable considering all the time spent outside.

I love Tim McGraw and think he's an excellent actor. Of course, so is Sam Elliott but I can't understand a WORD the man says.

Anonymous wrote:okay I had to grit my teeth to watch this show because I loved parts of it and simultaneously hated other parts of it.

I really wanted to watch the story of the characters getting across America. It was so interesting, how people lived and died trying to do that.

There were a lot of things that didn't hang together in the show, but I could easily ignore/forgive the writers for that.

But the more the show turned into "The Elsa Show," the more I was frustrated.

I do NOT want to sit around and listen to self-absorbed teen who thinks she is so deep....thinks she has more experience than either of her parents, thinks she is soooo wise of the ways of the world, and nothing to learn for anyone--ANYONE--around her.

Her voiceover thoughts were so over the top. And monotone. (And btw, how the f does she know that "even stars die"?)

And in person, she's insufferable. I swear, when her dad was saying "you're the most important thing to me in the world," all I could think of is, "Why?"

And btw her version of heaven does NOT include the man who JUST SAID "you're the most important thing to me in the world" and who is going to LIVE the rest of his life at the spot where she dies so as to remember her. Or, the cowboy that she loved, oh, but forgot about in ONE WEEK.

Finally, I never could get over her hair. It's so fake. I think they made it that way to match Beth Dutton's in "Yellowstone"--sort of to evoke and explain where Beth gets her spirit--but while Beth's fake dyed hair is fine because bleaching hair is part of today's culture, it is just too fake for the 1800s. If they wanted a blonde, they needed to cast a real blonde. And lose the eyeliner and mascara too. In sum, both in behavior and appearance, Elsa was just too modern to be believable.

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although I felt like they could have tied it up nicely with showing James and Margaret building their homestead. Maybe just an aerial shot of a small cabin (future Dutton Ranch). Something!