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1883 Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2021 - 2022
Episode 1
1883
Sun, Dec 19, 202167 mins
The Dutton family embarks westward through the last bastion of untamed America. James arrives in Texas, where he and his family prepare to make their way through The Great Plains in search of a new home and the promise of opportunity.
Episode 2
Behind Us, a Cliff
Sun, Dec 19, 202160 mins
Thomas and Shea recruit James and some local cowboys to corral a herd of cattle. As they begin their journey, the caravan is confronted with some of the many dangers they will face along the way.
Episode 3
River
Sun, Dec 26, 202144 mins
In the unforgiving wilderness, camp life strains under clashing wills and unspoken fears. Decisions ignite conflict, accusations unsettle fragile bonds, and budding attraction threatens to complicate survival. Every choice carries weight, every glance carries desire, as the group navigates the harsh realities of the frontier.
Episode 4
The Crossing
Sun, Jan 9, 202255 mins
The group faces the harrowing task of crossing the river with their wagons and supplies. Thomas and Noemi grow closer.
Episode 5
The Fangs of Freedom
Sun, Jan 16, 202256 mins
Shea and Thomas cope with the aftermath of the river crossing, but there is little time to grieve and no shortage of challenges ahead. Elsa and Ennis share a romantic moment.
Episode 6
Boring the Devil
Sun, Jan 30, 202251 mins
Shea helps Elsa cope with her loss. The group crosses another river and prepares to enter Indian territory. Thomas buys Noemi a gift.
Episode 7
Lightning Yellow Hair
Sun, Feb 6, 202253 mins
Elsa Dutton crosses paths with a Comanche warrior who challenges everything she thinks she knows about survival and belonging. Meanwhile, the wagon train confronts a devastating storm that tears through their fragile sense of progress, leaving the camp fractured and desperate. One of their own goes missing in the chaos, forcing the group to make impossible choices about who to save and what to sacrifice. The prairie becomes a character, merciless and indifferent.
Episode 8
The Weep of Surrender
Sun, Feb 13, 202255 mins
Heavy snow clouds gather on the horizon while the wagon train stalls in the unforgiving dirt of the Great Plains. Elsa Dutton finds herself torn between the beckoning freedom of a life with the Comanche and the rigid expectations of her family's westward journey. As Shea Brennan grapples with the mounting mortality of his group, the pioneers must decide whether to chase a dream of Oregon or succumb to the brutal reality of the wilderness.
Episode 9
Racing Clouds
Sun, Feb 20, 202256 mins
A devastating misunderstanding ignites a brutal clash between a wagon train and a grieving group of Lakota warriors. Survival becomes a desperate scramble as Elsa and the pioneers face the horrific fallout of a crime they did not commit. Fear turns to cold reality under the wide Montana sky when the cost of the journey finally demands its heaviest toll. Blood spills across the tall grass, forever altering the path of the Dutton family.
Episode 10
This Is Not Your Heaven
Sun, Feb 27, 202265 mins
Elsa Dutton stares down the inevitable end of her journey while her parents, James and Margaret, scramble to find a final resting place that will keep her spirit tethered to the land. The wagon train reaches its ultimate fracture point as the remaining immigrants face a brutal choice between safety and the unknown. In the shadow of the majestic mountains, a father makes a desperate pact with the wilderness to trade his daughter's peace for a permanent home.
