‘1923’ Finale Recap and Ending, Explained

The final season of 1923 reeked of death. Every individual character reeked of death, even the youngest ones — the ones who appeared too vibrant to ever die at all when we first met them. By the end of “A Dream and a Memory,” though, they are all dead or widowed, motherless or fatherless or both. Setting aside the series’ heaven-set, Titanic-indebted coda, the final image we get of the Yellowstone is this: A childless 80-year old man, his body equal parts skin and scars, sits with his drolly acerbic…