This review contains spoilers for 1883 episode 7, “Lightning Yellow Hair.”
The wagon train has spent a week in the plains seeing no other living things, according to Elsa’s opening narration in the latest episode of 1883, but that quickly changes when a pair of Native Americans are spotted on the hill. Elsa is told that they are Comanches here to collect a tax in order for the wagon train and cattle to go through their land. It is the first Native American character we see in the series since the flash-forward that started episode 1. But considering this episode takes place before that in the story, it serves as an introduction to a larger world for Elsa (Isabel May) and us as an audience, leading to a fantastic, jam-packed hour.
