1923
The Killing Season
TV Flash files “The Killing Season” as a desk essential hour — 1923 (2022–) on Paramount+, season 2, episode 1, aired 2025-02-23, 58 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 9 of 15 in the 1923 guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 2025-02-23 (58 min). The listed hour before it is “Nothing Left to Lose” (S01E08). Next is “The Rapist is Winter” (S02E02).
Essential hour: “The Killing Season”. The Killing Season as season-two launch: the titled hunt, Ford and Mirren still the reason this bridge series is not leftover ranch inventory.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The winter brings new challenges for the Duttons.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Killing Season sit in the 1923 guide?
S02E01 is listed hour 9 of 15 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.
When did 1923 S02E01 air?
The Killing Season aired 2025-02-23 and is listed at 58 minutes.
Do I need 1883 or Yellowstone first?
Helpful for Dutton myth, not required. 1923 is built as its own brutal western with Ford and Mirren — connective tissue, not a homework packet.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren on the range, bridging Dutton myth between the wars. Prohibition, drought, and land as a weapon — Sheridan epic with movie-star gravity instead of ranch-soap default. Watch for timeline connective tissue that still plays as its own brutal western, not a homework packet for Yellowstone fans.
So about the timeline charts — 1923 is the group chat's Dutton homework that still plays as a western. Taylor Sheridan's Paramount+ series, 2022 onward, puts Harrison Ford as Jacob and Helen Mirren as Cara on the range, Brandon Sklenar as Spencer, Prohibition-era chaos, drought, land as a weapon. Duttons between the wars. Movie-star gravity instead of ranch-soap default. Fifteen episodes, two seasons, connective tissue that does not need you to pause for a family tree. (I said spoiler-free. The year in the title…
Filed against
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- Helen Mirren as Cara Dutton
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- Brandon Sklenar as Spencer Dutton
Brandon Sklenar carries Spencer Dutton through 1923 — the between-the-wars Dutton who makes Prohibition-range myth feel like a body, not a timeline footnote. Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren own the ranch gravity; Sklenar owns the younger…