1923 greater than doubled its premiere viewers measurement between its first and second seasons. The Yellowstone prequel returned after a virtually three-year wait on Sunday, February 23 on Paramount+, and the streamer says that the Season 2 premiere is now the most-watched premiere of an authentic sequence within the platform’s historical past. Season 2 is rumored to be the ultimate season. With viewership so excessive, indicating clear curiosity on this era of Duttons from Taylor Sheridan‘s universe, may this immediate a 1923 Season 3?
1923 Season 2 Episode 1, “The Killing Season,” broke Paramount+’s world viewership file with 5.4 million world viewers, the streamer introduced on Wednesday, February 26. That is 2.5x larger than the December 18, 2022 Season 1 premiere, which had 2.2 million viewers. Social media exercise in regards to the present can be up by 187 p.c with 1.6 million views.
These numbers come from inside streaming knowledge on premiere day offered by Paramount+. The numbers from premiere day come from Paramount+, Apple Channels, Roku Channels, and Amazon Channels.
1923 stars Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren as Jacob and Cara Dutton, the patriarch and matriarch of the Dutton household in Prohibition-Period Montana. The Season 2 ensemble options Brandon Sklenar, Julia Schlaepfer, Jerome Flynn, Darren Mann, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, Michelle Randolph, Sebastian Roché, Timothy Dalton, and Jennifer Carpenter. Sklenar and Schlaepfer’s Spencer and Alex met in Africa in Season 1 and rapidly fell in love. This despatched them on a high-stakes journey that took a flip once they realized of Spencer’s brother’s demise. John Dutton (James Badge Dale) was killed in a shootout on the Dutton ranch that additionally noticed Ford’s Jacob injured, prompting the newlyweds Spencer and Alex to return to Montana. Spencer’s unjust arrest threw a wrench in that plan, separating the couple within the Season 1 finale.
Season 2 opened 4 to 5 months into their separation, and the stakes are even larger as a merciless winter brings new challenges and unfinished enterprise to Jacob and Cara again at Dutton ranch. With harsh circumstances and adversaries threatening to finish the Dutton legacy, Spencer embarks on an arduous journey dwelling, racing towards time to save lots of his household in Montana. In the meantime, Alex units off on her personal harrowing trans-Atlantic journey to search out Spencer and reclaim their love.
In the course of the present’s hiatus, Sklenar stated that Season 2 could be its final. He additionally confirmed that he’ll lastly be seen appearing with Ford and Mirren, who play Sklenar’s uncle and aunt, in Season 2.
“It’s so onerous for me to not give away spoilers. I do get loads of Helen [Mirren] and Harrison [Ford] time, and it’s going to be particular,” Sklenar advised Forbes in 2024. “I imply, the finale of the sequence might be probably the greatest issues I’ve learn in my life. I’ve sort of recognized the way it was going to finish since day one — Taylor [Sheridan] sort of advised me. I knew the complete arc of Spencer from day one, so in capturing half one, [you’re] aware of the place he must go. I’m actually excited.”
He advised The Hollywood Reporter that very same 12 months that Season 2 is the ultimate half. “It’s bookend. It’s nonetheless restricted, however I consider it as one piece — there’s only a cut up within the center, nevertheless it’s all one piece. It would conclude,” he stated.
Paramount+ has not confirmed if Season 2 would be the present’s final, however the viewership reveals clear curiosity within the story. And with Yellowstone now performed till the Beth and Rip spinoff comes round, 1923 is now the one Yellowstone-universe sequence at present operating. However with extremely sought-after stars like Ford and Mirren within the solid, it could be difficult to wrangle that pair again to set.
Spencer and Alex are the franchise-favorite couple behind Beth and Rip. Maybe there’s a world the place they carry 1923 into the long run? Or possibly their older counterparts would be the stars of the reported upcoming 1944 spinoff?
1923, Sundays, Paramount+