Imagine the worst people you can think of, but they’re all cowboys. Then give them a shit ton of wealth, influence, and land; their own private paramilitary too. They fuck with each other, the local Native American reservation, and politicians. A few people try to have a conscience sometimes. There ya go, that’s my review.
Only clip of it I’ve seen is Kevin Costner shooting a shotgun in the air to scare Chinese tourists away from a buffalo after he first must explain the concept of private ownership to them (their feeble Eastern minds cannot comprehend it)
Also it’s really funny to me that the conservative darling show is a bunch of nepobabies who were literally given their land for free by the government a century and a half ago and they’re supposed to be these hardworking salt of the earth people when in reality they’d have a gaudy Papa John style mansion and exclusively use illegal immigrants to farm their land for whatever the most profitable cash crop is
I love the Chinese bear scene. It’s absolutely perfect in an American brainworms way.
Yellowstone exists because somebody saw Game of Thrones printing money and decided to make it about cowboys and without any likable characters. They were like “people like watching rich people be shitty to each other, right?”
It’s really odd (but not so odd if you really think about it) that you got the liberal/urban leftist version in Succession versus the red-state version in Yellowstone. The way they both tackle similar ideas, scenes, and stories are completely split along taste downstream from their politics. They both also both undermine their own thesis in ways that are equally split. They came out almost at the same time.
Nah it’s because Taylor Sheridan (the showrunner for Yellowstone and the rest of the chud cinematic universe) was a writer on Sicario (and a few other less high profile movies) and was able to build a career from there.
I’d argue it’s just appealing to the chud demographic, and as can be seen by cop shows generally having the best ratings on TV, there are a lot of fucking chuds.
I’d say it’s moreso the demographics of who is still watching broadcast tv. Mostly old people who are unable or unwilling to change over to streaming and piracy like the rest of us did 15 years ago
Ballpark game of thrones viewership and yellowstone
Someone has been watching it on their down time at work and it sounds pretty bad.
Watch Damnation.
I have it, but I’m oppositional so… No.
YES!!
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From what I’ve heard Landman is even “better”. Watch it and report back for us about Hardworking Oil Beard Man.
Watched like a third of season one. That show is fucking vile. They seem to stop every episode and have a miniature lecture written by oil companies that tell outright loes mixed with half-truths.
So just like Yellowstone is to land rights and beef industry. Kinda seems like a pattern with this guy…
1883 was half decent, and everything else Sheridan makes is fucking trash
Yeah, I watched 1883 and 1923. 18 was a pretty good peek into how hard things probably were on the Oregon trail. But the cynicism and murderous intentions of everyone was laughable. Then the pretty blonde somehow lives two weeks after a perfectly placed arrow doesn’t take her out just long enough to get their perfect homestead. 🙄 The funniest part for me was Tim McGraw and Faith Hill as the leads, it got corny at times.
19 was pretty interesting and entertaining to me. But goddamn, Timothy Dalton’s character made me skin crawl, and subsequently I now hate him. But I couldn’t help my think that he was actually a good representation of how the ruling class actually thinks and behaves. Acting was pretty top notch imo, but I came away from it feeling a little traumatized from that shit tbh.
23 I hated everyone. I dropped it when they felt the need to show the villain torturing sex workers for several minutes. It felt lurid, like the fetishbof the director or somethi g
Yeah, that’s what fucked me up, and it gets worse after the initial scene. He grooms the one that survives to become an agent of sorts to gain control over politicians. I would honestly not recommend anyone watch it, it was traumatizing to say the least. I felt like it was a truly evil work, and Taylor Sheridan somehow knows this reality among the ruling elite.
There’s a guy in my town that cosplays Yellowstone it’s very cringe
Maybe take him to that county where there’s no residents like in the show…
