1923 (TV Series) Ghost of Zebrina (2023) User Reviews

Too much going on without anything really happening

[ajmillar · 7/10 · 6 February 2023]

A decent episode-good but not great. I love Elsa's narration, Mirren's performance and Brandon Sklenar as Spencer.

However, the scenes where Spencer and Alex were traveling together dragged.

Watching them walk, talk to traveling agents (lol) and look stern?-ugh. My mind wandered and I thought I miss Elsa, James, Margaret and everyone else from 1883.

I also wonder how the Spencer/Alex storyline will work after they arrive in Montana?-no time for "intense love" when there's work to be done and a ranch to save?.

Also, no time to mourn for Emma?...really?. Poor Teonna...brutal.

1883>1923, guys.

CONTINUITY COCK UP!!

[ianptemple · 8/10 · 7 February 2023]

I like the episode. Good stuff as always.. But I did spot on Continuity Cock up. It was when 'Spencer and Alex' go into the Union Castle Line in Mombassa, enquring about passage! That was fine as UCL did have offices there. However the ship shown at the dockside was the 'RMS Mauretania', never a UCL ship at all. It was owned by 'Cunard'. And used on the North Atlantic Route, between Southampton and New York. Indeed she she was the 'Blue Ribbon' Holder for many years. Apart from that! Another excellent series that i'm thoroughly enjoying. Helen Mirren oozes what a Quality actress she is. More please..

Ghost of Zebrina

[bobcobb301 · 6/10 · 17 February 2023]

I am not sure if 1883 is miles better than 1923, but so far it seems like the better show. The news of this program getting renewed gives me hope, but also worry as I do not know how many stories are left for this group. I found myself really bored a lot in this episode, that is usually the case with 1923, but much moreso than normal here.

They need to bring back the danger to the ranch in Montana, and stop deviating so much from that initial plot. The safari hunt is fun, but this is a continuation of the Yellowstone franchise and we expect cowboys and that kind of stuff, not trouble on a global scale.

Oy, with the ghost ship!

[yadaboy · 4/10 · 7 February 2023]

I'm really loving this series, especially the story line of Spencer & Alexandra in Africa. But it feels like Mr. Sheridan is WAY unfairly toying with our limits of suspending disbelief with that damned tugboat debacle. Really, all the contrived coincidences leading up to the upside-down tug just left me shaking my head. Did Mr. Sheridan leave the room and let some intern write that crap?

Oh, but the scene of Teonna awaking on the rock to a flock of sheep - PRICELESS!

Did imdb always require 600 characters for a review? I thought it was lower, and it should be. I've read reviews that can well cover a show or movie in half that.

Keep it on land!

[ArneHenriksen · 3/10 · 6 February 2023]

Mr. Sheridan should stick to cowboys and the West.

All the boat-related scenes of this story is appallingly bad in all ways, more like something out of a C-movie with The Rock than what we have been used to expect from Yellowstone, 1883 and now this 1923 series.

If you don't have the cash to be actually using a real boat on real water, and maybe use someone who had been in a boat before as reference - why go to the lengts here?

A ghost ship, floating around - FASTER than a boat going full ahead for hours? With the wheel roped, on a constant bearing? This is so out of context and level of performance we should be getting that it really makes me wonder why I keep following this series.

Needs attention to historical details.

[edkap-62761 · 5/10 · 25 March 2023]

A cowboy refers to the "silent pictures". The year is 1923 and "talkies" were still several years down the road. So movies were not yet referred to as silent pictures because that was all there was. It's like someone in 1955 said they were watching a "black and white TV". Color TVs were not around yet, so a TV was just a TV and we didn't refer to it as being black and white.

This is just personal.... but the Alexandra character really annoys me. Don't know if its the character or the actress playing the part.

In fact, on the whole, this prequel to Yellowstone has a much less likeable set of characters than the really good series I just watched, "1883". Helen Mirren is the exception. And I really don't get the business of having a dead person narrating the story.

Alex and Spencer are unbearable

[dimasrox · 1/10 · 14 April 2023]

Did the writer delegate this part to an intern?

Impossible to watch this: first attacked by elephants, then lions, hyenas, a shipwreck, then sharks come (lol, classic), then the captain gives her his wife's ring!

But that's not even the worst: that would be Spencer being freaking DEEP all the time. The guy can't go on a sentence without being philosophical or plainly annoying. All their dialogues and cringy and cliche, horrible.

The rest of the show and episode is great.

They should stick to the natives and the cattle ranch storylines because those are well written and definitely interesting.

Hopes dashed

[southgatekid · 3/10 · 25 February 2023]

I started watching this series due mainly yo the cast. All great artists . Scenery is beautiful... but again disappointment rears it's ugly head, in American productions. We go from boat sinking , then rescued, then back to ranch. All well done, but there's the obligatory, hookers, the bsdm. I took a shot at this even after Yellowstone. I don't know if it's studio pressure for the sex scenes or filler for gaps in the script, but once again American programming ceases not to disappoint in being mediocre. I thought with such a cast of British actors, they'd bring this this series up a bit. While being good, you can't save lousy writing D-