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Jesse S.'s avatar

My favorite/least favorite thing about Yellowstone (only watched into the second season and my paramount sub ran out) is how Beth is basically Samantha Jones on a ranch. She's so catty and vampy, but as a character on this ultra red blooded macho tv show

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Liam Mathews's avatar

Hahaha, I never made that connection, but you're absolutely right. Just swap cosmos for Tito's.

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Jesse S.'s avatar

Basically! “Listen honey his stones weren’t yellow if ya get my drift”

“Cowboy style? Babe I’ll try anything once!” “He hit my Dutton button ladies. I’ll leave it at that”

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Vincent Gallagher's avatar

A less than masteful series of cartoonish wierdness from the very queer mind of Taylor Sheridan. Who prefers to appear shirtless in painful cameso. An aged beefcake - who looks like he was broiled until a queer shade of orange. His use of HGH and other chemical enhancements make him look like a giant tumescent sausage. As for his shows. Dialogue is a string of vapid, right-wing, Anon cliches churning thru a totalitarian dreamworld presented as some manner of hardened reality. The pretense it is nuanced and an inside look at power is absurdist. Looks as to be written by a third generation John Bircher on bad acid.

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James Madison's avatar

OK, I don’t understand how the Cattleman’s Police, armed with M-4’s and blasting bad guys at remote rural intersections, killing a dozen or five dozen people, isn’t normal.

It’s not like they use IED’s or RPG’s or nuthin.

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Sunset Thunder's avatar

I’ve only watched clips of various scenes on YouTube but that’s been enough for me to know I don’t want to watch the whole thing. I think the get branded to show you belong to the ranch thing is a bit off-putting.

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Beth Lisogorsky's avatar

You had me at the title for this article and this Substack. I'm now subscribing.

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Liam Mathews's avatar

Thank you, Beth.

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Jason Allison | A Second Act's avatar

I loved early Yellowstone, but my wife and I gave up when horses spun in circles for entire episodes. But reading about the spiraling of The Taylor Sheridan Project has been baffling and hilarious.

He’s got chops, when he’s able to get out of his own way.

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Liam Mathews's avatar

You just actually made me lol. There are two separate scenes of Taylor Sheridan spinning around on horses in this episode.

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Will's avatar

My wife is a horse girl, and she would geek out over those horses. Million dollar reining horses. Spinning like that is one of the main skills in freestyle reining. It’s fun to watch in person, but weird in a show like that.

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Roy Brander's avatar

When I saw people in Stetson hats and riding horses around the ranch - and this is supposedly after 1950 - I never watched a minute. I was born in Calgary, did the Stampede every year and grew up on cowboy shows.

But the only Alberta farmer and rancher I know (gave up the hog barn, still does cattle) couldn't possibly afford a horse, a rich person's affectation. He has a $19.99 straw cowboy hat for Stampede week, but wears, obviously a ball cap as he takes his battered old pickup around the farm. The family got by all right, but owning a horse? It's a city-person's fantasy ranch.

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Brian B's avatar

I have not watched the show, but as a resident of Wyoming, I can call bullshit on it nevertheless, because nothing ever happens in this part of the world. Nothing.

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Liam Mathews's avatar

They go to Wyoming to dispose of the bodies of people they kill, because even if they are found, no one has jurisdiction over this particularly lawless corner of the state. Sound about right?

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Brian B's avatar

Nah. Law enforcement is stellar here. They'll send you to state prison for 20 years for stealing a car. We don't mess around, so....nothing happens

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Chris Lesley's avatar

I dunno. I guess the crime-family-full-of-psychopaths-but-in-Montana shtick got to be too much for me.

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Odgie's avatar

I made it through the first season, and found that I could not start Season 2. Yellowstone is "Dallas" with better scenery. But none of the villains are as fun as J.R.

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Akos Peterbencze's avatar

You're quite on a roll with the Sheridanverse, huh? :) At least once it ends, Sheridan can start writing another 3 shows while developing 5 new ones simultaneously.

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Liam Mathews's avatar

I want him to do a sci-fi version, 2883. The Duttons have to protect their ranch on Mars.

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Mikhail Skoptsov's avatar

Never watched it but I think I'd like to hate-watch it. I mean, that scene of the grave digging is INSANE! And it's like without a drop of irony?!

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Liam Mathews's avatar

Everything is presented with a straight face all the time. But there's also so over-the-top and Sheridan is so savvy that I have to believe there's just the tiniest drop of irony in there somewhere. I think always looking for it is part of what makes me feel insane while watching the show. It's fun.

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James Madison's avatar

OK, I don’t understand how the Cattleman’s Police, armed with M-4’s and blasting bad guys at remote rural intersections, killing a dozen or five dozen people, isn’t normal.

It’s not like they use IED’s or RPG’s or nuthin.

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Cynthia's avatar

Have you heard of “Heartland”

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Guy Dudebro's avatar

Sounds like Sons of Anarchy honestly

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Will's avatar

It’s a weird show. My wife and I are in the target audience for Yellowstone. We made it through season 2. It’s just so over-the-top absurd in whatever point it’s trying to make, which, to be fair, I think is none.

This quote, though: “actually fairly reasonable brother Jamie”

Jamie got his teenaged sister a hysterectomy in the show for some favor, right? Tough to call him reasonable after that.

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