I’ve been a faithful simp for Taylor Sheridan’s 1923, but what he did to Alex was absolutely unforgivable. After everything she endured, all the near-death escapes, and that all-consuming love story with Spencer, she deserved a heroic arc. Instead, Sheridan turned her into a damsel with bad timing and worse decisions.
Alex was fearless, fiery, and ready to burn the world down for Spencer. She fought so hard just to be sidelined like that? C’mon, Taylor, Alex deserved better than a love story derailed by lazy plot devices and cheap heartbreak.
Taylor Sheridan did Alex dirty in 1923, and I’m not over it
1923 had me roped in tighter than a Dutton family secret. But when Taylor Sheridan decided Alexandra’s fate in Season 2: Man, I was ready to throw my remote at the prairie wind.
This was so damn unearned. Alex, who survived everything from lions to shipwrecks, suddenly forgets how to use common sense? The gas station scene sealed it. An old lady warns them about the weather. Alex hears her. Then… totally ignores it. That made her death feel less like a tragedy, more like avoidable nonsense.
It wasn’t just her dying, it was how she died. Offscreen chaos. The car breaks down. Her friends are frozen. She wakes up alone. That’s it? No real struggle? No heartbreak scene? Just a hard cut from dumb decision to disaster. It made Alex look careless and dragged her entire arc down with her.
And let’s not ignore the bigger blunder – Alex and Spencer were the emotional center of the show. Their chemistry was fan-magnet gold. Girls who never watched Yellowstone were tuning in just for them. Then Sheridan axed half of that duo five minutes after their reunion. Even Julia Schlaepfer said she “sobbed” reading the ending.
Sheridan had two years to fix this. Instead, he doubled down on déjà vu heartbreak. And now, 1944 has to carry on without the spark Alex brought to the Dutton legacy. Creative genius or not, Sheridan straight-up fumbled. Alex deserved better. We all did.
Fans react: Alex deserved better in 1923, not a frostbitten exit
Taylor Sheridan’s decision to kill off Alexandra in 1923 wasn’t just heartbreaking, it was lazy. Fans are calling out the snowy disaster plot as a weak setup that made Alex look clueless after everything she had survived.
The entire trip felt like a rushed excuse to wipe out the couple. No gloves, no real prep, and a gas station warning that was ignored twice. Even basic realism went out the window, how did they make it that far up a snow-covered mountain with no plowed roads?
Fans have tossed out way better alternatives. A busted wheel. An animal on the road. Even a Dutton horse triggering the wreck would’ve added depth. But instead, Sheridan made them look silly just to fuel Spencer’s grief.
Alex went through hell. She deserved a smarter ending. Not frostbite and a fumble. Just saying.