1923
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Welcome to America; now, just leave.
(But also, obviously, lined with thieves and perverts.)
Except Alex is not disembarking in New York City because that would be actual progress.
Sometimes it feels like this show is just about finding new containers to keep our characters.
Needless to say, Alex stands out on Ellis Island as she did in steerage.
Her clothes arent worn and drab; she wears her golden curls like a halo.
What happens next is a series of humiliating physical examinations that Id rather not have seen.
They make her pick up a stool; they make her undress all the way.
In reality, there turns out to be a third currency: marketable skills, like literacy.
Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.
She also lets him know that the trollop he processed before her left lipstick on his collar.
But the officer approves Alexs visa system anyway because America used to be a real country.
Gumption used to get a girl somewhere.
Hide your money in your shoe; keep your eyes open; dont wander any empty streets.
Hide your money anywhere but your shoe; buy a solo car; dont wander any empty train platforms.
Who told her that it was safe to pee?
Everyone knows that in New York City you just hold it until Boston.
Episodes of1923arent really structured like a TV show.
Its unclear whats happening simultaneously or even if time progresses the same way in each theatre.
For Alex, this literal gut punch happens at the hands of the Ellis Island medical examiner.
Lizzie spends the time between jabs throwing her few personal possessions into a suitcase, like Alex.
What do I make of this symmetry?
Its the baby that will be Alexs ultimate anchor to Montana.
Does she even mean it?
Since the deaths of his parents, Jacks completely transformed as a character.
He used to be the shows warm heart; now hes just another grumbling cowboy.
Doc diagnoses the Yellowstone foreman with a subdural hematoma.
Out on the range, meatball surgery is the only medicine available.
You want to look in Zanes face and complain about those pesky little shots now, Lizzie?
They repeat that hes free to stay on the land; theyll even pay him for catching strays.
The same Four Sixes supposedly destined to become the setting for its own yet-unairedYellowstonespin-off?)
Is this Runs His Horses plan?
Not explicitly, but maybe Kent is right.
Theres no place in America for an Indian on the lam from the law.
Its also not a great place to be a lawman on the run from Indians.
