OK, so Taylor Sheridan killed off Kurt Russell in the first episode of The Madison. But with that bold move, the newest series in the Sheridan-O-Verse has also established a tenet of its format, where extended flashbacks play like transcripts of Preston and Stacy Clyburn’s conversations throughout their years of marriage. And Russell and Michelle Pfeiffer are so great together in these scenes, whether they’re on the phone 2,000 miles apart or hanging in their swank New York City townhouse, we don’t even miss Preston in the present. Seeing Pfeiffer and Russell together in The Madison has also reminded us to rewatch them as hot young things, in the kinda trashy 1988 crime drama Tequila Sunrise.
And here’s some pure, uncut Sheridan writing for The Madison Epsiode 2 (“Let the Land Hold Me”), which Russell totally sells. One of these flashbacks has led to Preston’s thoughts on the singular goal
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