Tag: Taylor Sheridan
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Shakespeare Is Not Dead, But Alive, For He has Risen
No blasphemy intended by the title, just borrowing a phrase. Allow me to share just a small sample of a single contemporary work set in America’s 1920s to make my point. Let me describe some scenes, so you can tell me what this work is all about. A young woman is a waitress on a…
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Shakespeare in 1923
I’ve mentioned Taylor Sheridan’s 1923 before. The end of this, his second prequel to Yellowstone, just aired (or streamed?), and, by all that is holy, I can’t say enough about it. I could not believe it when I found out this was going to be the last episode of the series. “There’s no way Sheridan…
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1883 and 1923
I just finished streaming the ten episode miniseries 1883, and I have to say I’m really impressed. It is a truly profound meditation on life and death. Elsa’s monologues are some of the most moving prose ever penned. A sample follows: Here, there can be no mistakes. Because here doesn’t care. The river doesn’t care…
Musings of a Restless Mind 