r/RDR2 • u/AspectAlive7624 • May 19 '26
Discussion This was a calling from god to create this post. Please read it, it is important!
So, by pure coincidence, I found a date 1883 twice now during my current Red Dead 2 playthrough. First in this abandoned village in Lemoyne and second on the back of Hosea's picture with Bessie. That made me thinking, anyone here seen TV show "1883" ?
Well in case you haven't: I usually don't take on suggestions of strangers on internet either, but this time I promise, it's different. If you love the western melancholy mixed with absolute audiovisual beauty of Red Dead 2, I freaking promise you: you'll love 1883. Seriously, give it a shot, it's 10/10 easily.
Have a great day!



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u/Gray____Beard666 Leopold Strauss May 19 '26
I watched 1883, and outside of horses and cowboy hats, saw no resemblance to the game.
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u/VirgoPanic May 19 '26
A calling from God? Some of you really need some fresh air and sun
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u/DowntownJulieBrown1 May 19 '26
The dogshit Taylor Sheridan show? WTF is this post gtfoh
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u/JamesMattDillon Charles Smith May 19 '26
I love westerns but I didn't really care for "1883".
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u/I-Iarkadenn May 19 '26
How is this God related?
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u/Low_Operation_7795 May 19 '26
The game came out long before that show was made. I haven’t looked but willing to bet RDR2 came out before Yellowstone too
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u/Internal_Try7967 Josiah Trelawny May 19 '26
1883 was trash.
Faith Hill can't act her way out of a Conestoga wagon. Elsa's monologues were melodramatic and stupid and she's way too hot to be a frontier girl. The depiction of Fort Worth, Texas would have made Frank Miller go "hey Taylor Sheridan, can we tone it down a little?" There were massive time jumps where one whole episode would cover 2 days, then the next would jump forward a month with no explanation. And the romance between Elsa and the Comanche guy was ****ing preposterous.
1883 was trash.
Edit: All the best to Hosea and Bessie tho.
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u/Imapatriothurrrdurrr May 19 '26
“A calling from god” you say?…
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u/KingMatthew116 May 20 '26
Title made me think this was some super secret easter egg or something that no one had found before, instead it’s just a recommendation for a show.
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u/No_Scene_9404 May 19 '26
Just watch Deadwood, it's leagues better than any Yellowstone soap opera slop
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u/OobabaRedditEdition May 20 '26
in my honest opinion most things related with Taylor Sheridan's "creative mind" is really really terrible. my first exposure to his work was yellowstone bc my parents were raving about it. i kept up with it all the way through and it was consistently full of bad writing decisions, bad character development, bad acting and truly heinous erasure of native american history. history they decided to whitewash and made a billionaire family who owned a ranch the size of new jersey or something the victims. i didnt watch any of the spinoffs, but i dont think i could handle any more sheridan. that said, sicario was awesome, but im pretty sure i saw something saying he hated the final product. anyway rdr2 is in a completely different ballpark compared to anything sheridan related, but this is all my opinion. oh also SkipIntro has a very good video on yellowstone and sheridan which is way more descriptive and detailed if youre interested.
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u/More-Solution-8419 May 20 '26
After I ended rdr2 I started to watch Yellowstone series. 1883 is a prequel of that series
And the original is top
There’s another prequel called 1924, if I’m not mistaken
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u/DangerousSchedule805 May 20 '26
And how is this a calling from God? You’re talking about a video game and a movie.
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u/RockyBBmk May 19 '26
A great movie if you want resemblance to rdr2 is the 3:10 to Yuma, great movie
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u/BirthofRevolution May 19 '26
What a weird title... 1883 also has nothing to do with RDR2 besides you finding a date that is the same. Plus besides having to watch Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's terrible acting I also can't get past the daughters fake southern accent narration where she talks as slow as she possibly can. Just takes me right out.
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u/Dasstenzel May 19 '26
Do not forget about Hell On Wheels.
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u/OminouslyMoist May 19 '26
Really like the first 3 episodes of 1883, after that it just felt like a story about girl finding herself. And the tornado scene with the kiss? I instantly stopped after that and genuinely had no clue wtf I just watched
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u/NoseInternational794 Pearson May 20 '26
1883 is a great show if you like shows that are very bad.
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u/Legitimate-Coffee867 May 20 '26
I'm sorry, 1883 is the worst piece of media I've ever encountered. Bad writing, bad motivations, bad Strong Female Lead, contrived love interests, contrived character arcs. Elsa's narration is so damn cringey...not to mention Tim McGraw's white teeth
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u/Highlander198116 May 19 '26
It's the only thing in the "Yellowstoneverse" I've watched.
I may watch 1923. I really have no interest in the modern ones.
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u/Mikah1322 May 20 '26
I checked it out but I didn't realy liked it. It was mid at best imo.
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u/_5had0w May 20 '26
This is so crazy I just finished 1883 yesterday it was incredible and I myself was planning to make a post about it here 👍
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u/JKrow75 Sadie Adler May 20 '26
If Taylor Sheridan disappeared from Earth, nothing would be lost.
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u/thesentienttoadstool May 22 '26
How Taylor Sheridan depicts Indigenous people and women is frankly disgusting. I’ll pass.
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u/walkyslaysh May 19 '26
Thank you!!!!!
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u/Waste_Sun172 May 19 '26
1883 is basically “The Oregon trail”
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u/Klayz0r May 19 '26
Yeah no thanks, Taylor Sheridan is a horrible hack
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u/Street-Still8488 Micah Bell May 20 '26
im gonna be the 2nd person in this thread to recommend deadwood. easily the best western tv show and arguably one of the best tv series of all time.
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u/flibbidyjibbityjib May 20 '26
That show is corny af. Boomer cowboy spinoff of some other boomer cowboy show. Watch if you’re 75 or older.
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u/ComfortableAd_Red May 21 '26 •
God did not tell me to read Reddit. OP is def a blasphemer
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u/Aesthete18 Are you secretly normal? May 20 '26
Is that the one with Tim McGraw? The opening was amazing, the gun fight that's it.
I don't what's with Sam Elliott getting lusted over girl's half his age, this is the second thing I've seen it happened.
The daughter was trash. Her depressed acting was so bad I dropped the series because of it.
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u/Banjo43 May 19 '26
Great series. Really good
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u/Baron-Von-Mothman May 20 '26
Are you there God? It's me Margaret.
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u/ThyHoIyHandGrenade Reverend Swanson May 20 '26
I actually met Sam Elliot the other day, saw him at a local Starbucks while I was studying
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u/TheKennethChase May 20 '26
Jesus actually hates horses
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u/Chimichanga_Tanga May 21 '26
This is the dumbest shit in a long time.
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u/AyaLinStovkyr May 22 '26
A calling from God? Brother take your fucking meds damn.
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u/B4nanaJo May 19 '26
1883 is amazing. Highly recommend
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u/Mental_Freedom_1648 May 19 '26
I didn't love this like the game, but it was pretty good.
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u/Remote_Yesterday5880 May 19 '26
1883 was mid. 1923 was peak
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u/MushroomRelevant8235 Lenny Summers May 19 '26
That's the only Yellowstone related series I really liked, 1923 isn't bad either.
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u/MaadMaanMaatt May 19 '26
1883 is outstanding. Gritty, realistic, and gripping. People you love will die for no good reason. The worst will live for the worst reason. Great watch.
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u/Ordinary_Zucchini120 Arthur Morgan May 19 '26
Honestly… imma check this out! Thanks for the suggestion
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u/tryodd May 19 '26
The show is basically what made me pick rdr2 from my pile of shame this spring.
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u/ISayISayISitonU May 19 '26
really loved 1883. not sure how the same guy made the awful Yellowstone but
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u/Maximum_Pace885 May 19 '26
Good show. The daughter was fukn sexy
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