1923
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In Only Gunshots to Guide Us, he largely does the unimaginable.
But the change in geography doesnt change much.
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
So, Im going to stop watching this show in a way that drives me crazy.
This is not a series about a young Indian girl discovering the meaning of freedom after escaping state-sanctioned abuse.
When we first see Teonna in this episode, her blind faith in a new homeland is finally cracking.
Theyre forced to run again.
Regardless, its the wrong call.
All hat, no cattle, as they say.
Yet I was intrigued when he compared Teonna to the wolf.
Heading north out of Amarillo isnt just a mistake because Kent and Renaud are on Teonnas heels.
Its an arid, inhospitable patch of country with no place to rest.
The confrontation ends in an electric if futile horse chase.
Pete may be fast in the saddle, but that hardly matters when theres nowhere to hide.
His horse collapses of exhaustion, and Pete and Kent are quick to draw.
It almost doesnt matter.
True as that might be, Alex is white, pretty, and well-spoken.
Like grit, pulchritude is its own form of armor.
Shes been robbed, beaten, verbally and possibly even medically abused.
Are Marys small children going to pee in her new work shoes?
Mothers can endure anything, her spiteful bunkmate tells her condescendingly.
For a second, no one moves.
Except the train to Fargo has been canceled on account of a snowdrift.
Will they sell her out to her parents, who are friends of friends of friends?
Will they want to steal her baby?
What happened to this country?
What did Spencer expect to happen?
is perhaps the better question.
Anyone whos ever left home before will find themselves sympathetic.
Perhaps he even imagined a Spencer-size hole that he could pour himself back into.
But in this new America, Spencers not himself anymore either.
Fossett buys Spencer a one-way train ticket out of her jurisdiction anyway.
Perhaps the most amusing exchange of the entire episode is a completely meaningless aside.
Shes saying it to us.
Taylor Sheridan is saying it to us.
Its a conspicuously didactic moment on a show thats full of plausible didactic moments.
Jake Dutton might say it.
Append a darling to the end and it could be dialogue from Spencer.
Usually, I buy it.
Seemingly, Sheridan like the Duttons he writes has something to get off his chest.
