LETTERS POLICY

Is there anything more annoying than the current trend of turning everything into a series rather than a 2-hour movie? After sequels came the prequels and then the reimaginings and now we’ve apparently moved on to dragging out stories that could be told in two hours to 8-10 hours. And let’s not forget about adding additional episodes to seasons and extending them from 10 to 14, like the current season of Yellowstone.

I’m not a fan of Yellowstone but I warmed up to it somewhat when my husband watched season four, only to be annoyed with the current season where the story could have been told in half the time.

Then I came across 1883, the prequel series to Yellowstone, and

I loved it - even though it checks two of the boxes that annoy me (prequels, now called origin stories, and series).

When I thought about why I loved it so much I realized it’s because (almost) everyone dies in the end. Which is tragic, of course, but that’s life and it also means that there won’t be another season.

Encouraged by 1883, my husband and I started watching 1923, the next Yellowstone saga.

I’m already over it because it is dragging on and I read somewhere that there will be a second season. Enough already!

What to watch?

I might have to go back to re-watching the best movies of all time, you know, from when I was young. Forrest Gump, Fried Green Tomatoes, Amazon Women on the Moon, Terminator 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Amazing, right?!? It feels like everything new is geared towards continuing on, no matter how boring it becomes. It’s nice to have something that has a beginning and an end - life is already hard enough and we don’t need to add multi-season underwhelm to the list.

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