Finally got around to watching this show. Despite having soured on Yellowstone which I think is a poorly written soap opera disguised as a good drama, I was cautiously optimistic about 1883. So far, I like it more than expected. I think Tim McGraw is doing a surprisingly good job in his role and Isabel May is easy on the eyes. The scenery is good and I like the descriptions of Texas. There are definitely some frustrations I have though: 1. Completely agree with the posters who pointed out they went north to the Red River, then to avoid going east to Denison, their only other option was to go southwest and cross the Brazos?!? Abilene is way the hell out of the way at that point and that would put them on the south side of the Brazos, meaning they need to cross it again or go way west to cut around it. Why on earth was this part of the script? They could’ve just headed west along the south bank of the Red River and avoided crossing both rivers. Or, if the goal was to show the difficulty of river crossings, there are countless other ways to force them to cross a river in a way that makes geographical sense. Given that Taylor Sheridan lives in Weatherford and has part ownership in the 6666 Ranch, these types of pointless mistakes are almost unforgivable. It’s a show about a wagon journey to Oregon (or likely Montana) so the geography and the route they are traveling are pretty damn important. 2. We are 5 episodes in (~3 weeks in show time) and they’ve basically gone ~150 miles and had half of their people die. At what point do they say fuck it and go back to Fort Worth? Or will they suddenly do warp speed in the last half of the season? 3. The Germans don’t speak English in episode one, but then they mostly speak English in the next handful of episodes. Well sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t. But then you have a scene with Josef and his wife alone, where instead of speaking in their native German as you would naturally expect, she is speaking broken English to just him. Be consistent with it. Let them speak German and we can manage the subtitles. 4. When that first bandit interaction occurred on the banks of the Trinity River, why in the hell did the SIL widow start throwing rocks at the bandits? She basically gave them a reason to start shooting people including her daughter. Dumbass. 5. The Elsa narration seems like a direct rip-off of Dolores from Westworld. Surprised no one else has brought that up.