Within the lead-up to Yellowstone’s fifth season premiere final yr, I binge-watched its prequel collection 1883 and 1923. Rapidly, my love for 1923 overtook me, and it turned my favourite present in Taylor Sheridan’s universe. That’s in nice half due to Alex and Spencer’s story about getting again to Montana. Nonetheless, on the finish of Season 1, the lovebirds had been separated, and I turned apprehensive about Season 2. Though, Brandon Sklenar and Julia Schlaepfer’s feedback about their characters’ journeys this season have given me hope about what’s to return.
So, to recap rapidly, on the finish of 1923’s first season, Alex and Spencer Dutton had been forcibly separated after Spencer unintentionally killed Alex’s former fiancé, and so they promised to satisfy one another again in Montana. Now, understanding the Dutton’s luck and the journey these two went on in Season 1, the percentages of them truly reuniting in Season 2 really feel low. To be blunt, I don’t love that for us and that is why I have been apprehensive.
Nonetheless, whereas previewing Season 2 forward of its 2025 TV schedule premiere with TV Line, Brandon Sklenar teased what’s coming for Spencer within the new episodes, saying:
He undoubtedly encounters some sturdy resistance at just about each flip, and he offers with that the best way he is aware of greatest. I can say that it’s undoubtedly quite a lot of enjoyable, as an actor, in taking part in him to lastly take him to these locations within the second season, and simply attempting to let the cat out of the bag and the lion out of the cage.
The It Ends With Us actor additionally defined that within the new season of this Yellowstone present, we may see extra of the brutality that Spencer works actually arduous to repress. The man’s acquired trauma from his time within the warfare and it’s clear that he has some Dutton-inspired demons too. Plus, Alex, his rock and love, is now gone. So, the trail he’s headed down shall be harmful each bodily and mentally. And that, my mates, is thrilling.
In Season 1 of 1923, we began to find out about Spencer’s relationship along with his aunt and uncle who raised him, and I’m dying to know extra about his emotions towards his brother and nephew. Hopefully, we’ll get to study extra about that in Season 2. Primarily based on Sklenar’s feedback, it appears like we’d as he fights his approach again to Montana and Alex.
Talking of Alex, Julia Schlaepfer opened up about what’s to return for her character too. Whereas it appears like Spencer shall be actually combating his approach again dwelling, there’s a unique battle in retailer for his spouse, because the 1923 forged member stated:
This season is all about testing her resilience and her energy, and she or he has to dig deep to discover a stage of grit that I don’t even suppose she knew she had. However on the prime of Season 2, she is set to attempt her darndest to get to Bozeman to satisfy Spencer.
Earlier within the interview, Schlaepfer defined that in Season 1, Spencer was at all times by Alex’s facet, and that made issues approach simpler. Now, she’ll be a lady touring alone within the ‘20s, which presents a very new set of challenges, and it’ll spotlight a really actual drawback ladies nonetheless face to this present day.
Seeing how Alex defies the percentages and will get again to her husband on her personal will possible be entertaining and empowering, and I can not wait to see her discover her true particular person energy this season.
So, general, whereas I’m not thrilled that considered one of my favourite Yellowstone {couples} gained’t be collectively, these previews from the actors who play Alex and Spencer made me very excited concerning the particular person journeys that lie forward for them.
To see what occurs to those two in addition to the remainder of the Dutton household, you’ll be able to catch the premiere of 1923’s second season on Sunday, February 23 with a Paramount+ subscription.