I Hate Yellowstone

[@steinblitz1506]

Reminds me of this reddit comment : "It’s a show that stars, 68 year old Kevin Costner as a “badass”, with two spin offs starring 76 year old Sam Elliott and 80 year old Harrison Ford also as “Badasses”. It’s a superhero show for old people where Costner’s super power is that he can sound cool while yelling at young people to stay off his (really big) lawn"

[@ThisIsReviewable]

lol reddit is God's kingdom sometimes. Such a great comment

[@chongsfury4358]

Or Kevin Costner talking to someone with his hands in his pocket, looking off into the distance, then looking at the ground with his tongue tucked in his lower lip giving a slight chuckle walking away as he ends the conversation.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@ lol

[@phyllisford2130]

You forgot the spinoff starring 69 year old Billy Bob Thornton as a "badass" oil man.

[@TheRealBelisariusCawl]

Well put good sir

[@gregoryruff77]

One of the funniest comments I read said something like "So it's a show about a rancher that commits so many crimes that he has to murder anyone who doesn't want to work for him anymore" 😂

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@gregoryruff77 pretty accurate tbh

[@iamthewizardwhoknocks2845]

😂

[@jasonmurdoc9533]

There’s a comment by one of them where he says “i took the brand but I didn’t agree to un alive people” and rip literally says “it means you do what you’re told” like ok well this is a cult and they are not even trying to hide it

[@justinland1208]

That makes it sound good though

[@bobkoroua]

​@@justinland1208 To an immature mind.

[@jasonmurdoc9533]

Fun fact Kevin Costner is from Southern California and has a ranch in Colorado. If he were a character on this show he’d be a villain

[@ThisIsReviewable]

that's hilarious

[@FScott-m1n]

Oh, thr ironity!

[@clovismeaux9532]

Colorado sucks they had legal marijuana and voted for trump. state of complete morons.

[@Needler13]

The writer is also a person who larps being s cowboy. Dude makes good movies but damn, he sucks at writing shows. Landmass is another one.

[@kermitwilson]

Costner has mentioned his ranch a few times in interviews, most recent Incan recal might be The Rich Eisen Show. He comes off as such an arrogant douche the way he talks about owning a ranch that size, and how owning large amounts of property is something like putting a target on your own back. He acts as if really thinks he’s a working rancher who understands what real work of that type is like, and he isn’t a wealthy elite that can write a check for whatever he wanted, then cosplay as a rancher until it’s time to fly to Telluride in a private jet for a film festival or Aspen because why not they just got 2’ of fresh powder. Meanwhile a real working class person has to wake up every day and get back to the grind. Hurt? Work through it. Pay check to paycheck, hope you don’t get sick or the truck breaks down.

[@dubmeisterxd2133]

Montana resident here. We are currently going through a horrific housing crisis and if I had a dollar for every person I've met who has said they've moved here because of Yellowstone, I might actually be able to afford rent. Its a juvenile show made for manlets who put the punisher sticker on their truck.

[@Tigatron1448]

Lmao. Oh God... the punisher sticker. I feel like it's become the modern day's version of truck nuts where you can immediately spot the insecure bros with tough guy syndrome.

[@mr.b3168]

Montana resident talking about a housing crisis lol. Go explore the country little man.

[@ChuckSDeuces]

Every person I meet who is a hardcore fan of Yellowstone is a suburbanite out of the Chicagoland area who desperately wants to present as country but has a crippling addiction to Starbucks. It really is the new Sons of Anarchy, which makes sense, I guess. TS must have saw firsthand how many paper assholes fell for the whole biker aesthetic and realized he can do that for ranchers.

[@methos1999]

@@ChuckSDeuces Don't forget making himself look cool. Every show he's produced he gives himself cameo's to play a badass of some sort.

[@WayneZzWorld93]

@@ChuckSDeucesI hate the accuracy. I was eating breakfast in the south suburbs last weekend when a pudgy dude walked in wearing aviators and a Stetson. My first thought was “wow look at Beth and Rip-off over here”. Sure as hell there was a “Dutton Ranch” Ram parked out front when I left.

[@leejeffries9796]

Yellowstone is a slightly exaggerated version of how a lot of people think that we should treat each other.

[@BigBlack81]

I've gotten this vibe from the show in the way people who watch the show interact out in public. And you CAN tell them out and about, just the same way certain Peaky Blinders hardcore fans ALL have the Cillian haircut and attitude now. Standing in line behind these folk in a store can be hazardous in large doses, real talk...

[@ohauss]

I don't even think it's exaggerated. I think it's precisely how its fans think we should treat each other and they love that in the show, it can actually be lived out while so far, they had to show some degree of composure in real life or suffer consequences. So far.

[@kyleengen6421]

Spot on

[@fritzfxx]

Project 2025 MAGA people need something to indulge fantasies until they get the real thing

[@tennisfameguy]

I haven’t seen a moment of the show, primarily because I assumed it was like this from the beginning, but from this review, I’d say your comment is spot on, except that the most recent events are the proof of concept, yeah? Americans ARE like this, or try hard to emulate it.

[@Peter-vg4sx]

Yellowstone is a teenage series pretending to be productions for adults. At least most of the characters are mentally at the level of 15-year-olds.

[@timmy-oranguta]

Every person I know who watches this show is a Gen Xer (45-60ish). They love it. Makes sense, because their entire generation is stunted.

[@mattbonatto]

I love when the sister gets naked to take a cold bath in that shitty water just to provoke her brother, and like, he was the only one who cared.

[@irregularrex4004]

This is the best way my feelings for this show have been explained.

[@Nightbird1914]

@@timmy-oranguta My Gen X 47 year old son tried one episode. It was an insult to his intelligence. I believe its appeal is more to Baby Boomers. That’s the age group I know who watched it.

[@timmy-oranguta]

@ Well your son is sort of in the micro-generation between X and millennials

[@paulgardner5079]

I immediately thought Beth the character was over the top and dumber than shit

[@ThisIsReviewable]

every mention of her name makes my skin crawl

[@paulgardner5079]

@@ThisIsReviewable IMO she is like a less cunning version of Lydia from breaking bad that can fight

[@ArbitraryLifestyle]

I can't tell you how many scenes I fast-forwarded through because of Beth.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@ the queen of cringe

[@paulgardner5079]

@@ThisIsReviewable IT was just so unrealistic...for instance, in anyu universe with any connection to the real world, she would have caught serveral felony assaults for her temper tantrums, regardless of who her daddy is

[@StarBurstRastaman]

I live in Whitefish, Montana, just outside of Glacier NP. Before this show came out, I was paying $350 a month in rent... Since then, it seems like half of california moved here and now I pay a whopping $1200 a month. Yeah, no, actually fuck this show. It has almost singlehandedly put me in poverty

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@StarBurstRastaman geeez that’s awful.

[@yeshummingbird]

I live in Oklahoma, which has a long history of California transplants. Just wait until they join your local groups and start whining about how they moved there because "it was supposed to be cheaper". SMFH. I see that crap all the time, and it's obnoxious; wouldn't be so damned expensive now if y'all weren't contributing to a housing crisis by moving here in droves! Sorry y'all gotta deal with their nonsense now, too.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@ It has definetly effected where we live as well.

[@erictavares678]

Hate to tell you bud but it has a lot more to do with state govt policy that forced many people to flee CA/OR/WA than it does this crappy TV show

[@GigaNietzsche]

What you're feeling right now is basically what White Californians have been feeling for the last 60 years dealing with millions of Mexicans moving there and raising costs while lowering the standard of living and wages

[@MoshJunkie426]

Believe me the only thing worse than the show itself is the wannabe rip and beth clones that run around Wyoming acting like a bunch of tough ranch hands while working in banking and living in a subdivision

[@ThisIsReviewable]

Oh that sounds awful

[@BigBlack81]

@@ThisIsReviewable Comment threads like this make me glad to be a city dweller: at least I KNOW the people here are only PARTLY cosplaying their identities.

[@Galow311]

@BigBlack81 you say that as if yuppies are hard to spot, they aren't

[@BigBlack81]

@@Galow311 I was thinking of other groups who apply social war paint before staking their claims but you are also quite right in your statement. Well typed.

[@michelangelorollf8608]

Suburban Cosplaying Rural

[@dlxmarks]

_Yellowstone_ is popular with people who can't see past its ultra-thin veneer. They think the characters talk tough and confident so they must be tough and confident.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@dlxmarks 100%

[@dlxmarks]

@@ThisIsReviewable The triumph of style over substance. The really depressing thing is that its audience grew significantly season over season with seasons 4 and 5 getting over three times the audience of season 2.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@ sometimes style as substance can work, like baby driver or drive, but here it just does not

[@politkos5348]

@@ThisIsReviewable imo style and substance should work hand-in-hand for the best results. But this show just aint it

[@JasonBirnbaum]

Amen. I hate this show so much. I tried watching it a couple of times, and each time I only made it about 10-15 min. First of all, Kevin Costner is one of the worst actors ever. He has been lucky to be in some great movies, but those movies could have replaced him with a slab of chuck roast and still been good. But put him in a movie with a shitty script, and it falls apart. Everyone else in the show is just as awful, and I just don’t get it. Just like you said, the characters are full of false bravado and machismo, believable only to those who need to think that bullies are tough guys. I used to work at a Western-centric chain store, and we sold Yellowstone swag. The customers loved that show. They were also racist conspiracy believing nincompoops who were also proud supporters of another fake tough guy. Landman sucks, too. Biggest problem with that show is the petroleum propaganda they spread.BillyBob is great, but the show is filled with ridiculous caricatures.

[@ethanlong4670]

I felt alone in my hatred of Beth. Now that season 5 has come out I've become more validated since more people have come out about their dislike this character. Thank fuck. Everytime she had a brush with death I prayed to any god that Beth would die.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@ethanlong4670 and it’s so maddening to see the insane praise she gets on social media. How can you like this character? How??

[@vanessamccool7972]

I COULD NOT STAND HER. I feel the same about her as I do someone who passes gas in an elevator. She is both THAT person and THAT smell. I cannot watch scenes she’s a part of, I’m repulsed by her character.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@ she totally is that smell haha

[@Skywalkerog_]

@@ThisIsReviewable you sir are a good man and a scholar for your astute observation. I’m glad others have the same views on these badly written characters. I think the biggest takeaway is people will say Beth is hated like Skylar white from breaking bad and many people like her, but hating Skylar is because she’s such a great character in the scenario. We hate her because there are people like that that’ll complain about not having money then complain about having too much money, dirty at that. Her decisions although do Walter and others dirty she plays that great stupid character role, the one that thinks they’re doing right but always do the wrong. Hope that made sense😅

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@ I tip my hat to you my friend

[@DrMontauk]

I think the worst part is the fans of the the show who look up to half these characters and defend all their actions while condemning every “enemy” who’s done far less than the Duttons evil history

[@ThisIsReviewable]

100% they are usually the worst people on both sides of whatever conflict they're in

[@garcalej]

If Rip were a character in Red Dead Redemption, he’d be an antagonist. And not a very long lived one, either. He’s the stereotypical ranch goon, hired muscle. “You enjoy being a rich man’s toy?”

[@GwynC]

Arthur Morgan is the badass western villain that every Dutton wanted to be but were too childish and stupid to come close to.

[@WitchHunterSiegfried88]

Never seen this show but Rip’s great, that carrier scene was awesome, Her singing Das Engenlandlied while the crew turned into ghouls and her men awaken from their coffins especially.

[@Koifin3]

Stopped watching Yellowstone when I realized it wasn’t a drama about a bunch of criminals pretending to be cool people and it’s the writers pretending that they’re cool people.

[@WTFisTingispingis]

I've seen so many Taylor Sheridan cameos in his own stuff lately that make me think he's just having a mid-life crisis and wants everyone to validate his peacocking.

[@yipperdeyip]

Well this saved me a bunch of time. I held off on it, because it has a gazillion spinoffs. WHERE DO YOU EVEN START IN THE FIRST PLACE... Well now I know I won't lmao

[@FreakTesticals]

I remember watching one of the spin off in the 1800 and I got hooked, I wanted to get into the main series but I was really disappointed with it

[@kthlars]

One of my biggest issues with the series is how they made Jamie the bad guy for trying to become his own person after spending his entire life making the Dutton name his whole identity and then finding out he was lied about his identity without even being told he was still family regardless of his adopted background. And then they set us up in the end to cheer for his death for a mistake he made as a scared kid who felt like the world was ending for his sister.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@kthlars it just feels gross doesn’t it?

[@John.McMillan]

Seriously! I spent the entire time on his side. Sure, he did stupid things at points, but what did he legitimately do bad? He did all he could for the family and they kept insulting and tossing him out until he had enough

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@John.McMillan great example of a toxic family dynamic. And I genuinely mean that. Jamie is not a great person but he is blamed his whole life for things he did as a kid or things that weren’t even his fault (being adopted). Someone made the point that Beth blamed Jamie for taking her to the clinic and never the clinic for having that policy to begin with. I cannot agree with that more. He was also scared in that situation

[@LuLe232]

@@ThisIsReviewable The staff at the clinic warned him, he knew, and HE decided that his sister should have no more children ever. It's dumb writing, sure, but that's NOT an innocent mistake.

[@John.McMillan]

@@LuLe232 He was literally demanded that nobody find out about it. The only option was the clinic. Should he have told her? Sure. But I seriously doubt she wouldn't have done it anyway. And on top of that; still a scared kid that wanted to help his sister.

[@DuncanNortier]

I was really hoping for "Succession but on the farm" but we got Days of our Lives for divorced dads with back the blue stickers on their pick ups.

[@LAsixx9]

Someone said it FINALLY! This show is like a bad Sopranos rip off to me it’s just not worth the time. It’s fans have this parasocial relationship with it and the characters “Oh you’d understand if you were a landowner or a rancher” No cause I wouldn’t be a shitty business man. It’s amazing how passionate people are for a show with like C tier writing and plots from General Hospital or All My Children.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@LAsixx9 amen friend!

[@williamwade3443]

It's scenery porn. That's why the show prospers. Taylor Sheridan is a horrible writer.

[@Numb217]

@@williamwade3443 Agreed. Also, he has to act in the show. Biggest narcissist. Perhaps, if he hadn’t been so greedy he needed to start two other prequels at the same time, Yellowstone would have had better writing.

[@pinerider19]

As a cattle farmer, I hate this show.

[@mattbonatto]

They have the same family dinamic as the Godfather. Even the oldest brother dies. But in a really shitty way

[@matman000000]

Watching season 1, I thought the point of the series was that these proud cowboys are just ruthless gangsters who hide their shallow psychopathy behind these talks about nature, family and the honest life on the ranch. The Duttons seemed absolutely like the villains just a few episodes in, so it's weird to see people idolize them and the writers treat them like some cool badasses, when all they seem to do is ruin anyone who comes near.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@matman000000 yes!

[@nnndddzzz1]

100%.....and this applies to most white evangelical Christians in America

[@Arminian100]

@@matman000000 the Duttons were the clear villains in episode 1. It's an insane right-wing arc of White settler colonial identity. An old rich white guy goes to war with natives over land and cattle, getting his son killed, in the very first episode. And all the while he's trying to intimidate people an d build connections to stop the development of housing??? Episode one is a dystopian hell-piece of white supremacy and settler colonialism without an ounce of window dressing. I laughed at him for his son dying at the end. Turned it off and said "I'm all good. Don't need to watch anymore."

[@BasedStruggler]

​@@Arminian100LOL, lmao. You're actually restarted. 😂

[@Arminian100]

@BasedStruggler if you say so

[@placebo5466]

This show is masturbatory conservative fan fiction, and I lean right on most things. It's cringe af and I don't think I even finished the first season. Everyone is a complete psycho lol and every time Beth is on screen it's torture, the actress is good but that character is fucking awful. When I started seeing the "liberal" insert characters so the main characters could give some monologue you think of in the shower on how to 'own the libs' I was done. Lame af. With all that said, 1883 was fantastic and Sheridan's movies are pretty great.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@placebo5466 I haven’t seen 1883 yet, big agree with you on his films and of course this show

[@placebo5466]

@ThisIsReviewable 1883 is worth the watch. It still has its Sheridanisms but not nearly as off putting as Yellowstone. That might be cause it's only 1 season. IMHO most shows should stop after 3 seasons.

[@BigBlack81]

@placebo5466 That line about conservative fan fiction made me laugh so hard, there's fruit drink all over my monitor now. Thanks. 🤣✊🏿💯

[@anthonyrowland9072]

@@BigBlack81 I love Billy Bob but The Land Man is the same thing. The world is more complicated than "Make it make sense" facebook posts.

[@pamelalansbury94]

@@ThisIsReviewable 1883 is definitely worth the watch. I enjoyed it a lot more than Yellowstone.

[@chrischuba5037]

I hated the way they made being cowboy ranchers into some kind of super-noble lifestyle. It's something us city folk will never understand. I have nothing against ranching, but it doesn't make you better than everyone else. And yeah, the thuggery and murder doesn't help.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

I think this show needs to get out of its own arse and just be honest about the fact that the duttons are a crime family... They might not be pushing dr*gs, moving people, or intimidating companies for monthly payments but they are commiting serious crimes and basically keeping people at the ranch against their will.

[@MrContemplation]

That wasn’t even a slight point of the show. The main point regarding ranching is that it’s a dying lifestyle. Cattle from other countries are flooding the market and driving down the prices. Making it nearly impossible to make a living on cattle. The people who work cattle are proud of what they do. Being a real cowboy is an art that only you see as I believe it was put.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@ No, the point of the show was for it to be a crime genre-inspired, cowboy soap opera with some messages about natives and ranching sprinkled in. It's not that deep.

[@MrContemplation]

@@ThisIsReviewable tell me you didn’t actually watch the show without saying you didn’t actually watch the show. Because despite the silly “crime family” drama that’s exactly the entire theme of the show. Even the Natives were fight to keep the old ways against the new wave movement in their own community.

[@BasedStruggler]

Well if it was just about ranching it'd be boring and have 2-3 seasons max

[@Bazookatone1]

My main problem with Rip is that he has literal plot armour, he is a Mary sue. No one is as tough or as smart or as bad ass as Rip, and reality has to wrap itself around him. Rip shrugs off two gunshots to the abdomen at point blank range when he's saving Beth, then effortlessly kills her attackers with his bare hands. Rip kills the medical examiner and stages an explosion, and is so proficient at it that apparently no one ever suspects it wasn't an accidental death. Rip tows a trailer up to the door of the cowboy bar and releases an angry bull into it causing widespread mayhem and presumably several serious injuries, but somehow no witness or CCTV managed to catch that it was a truck and trailer with a big "yellowstone" sign on them that was responsible, because when Rip does it, it always works! In the finale, Rip manages to extricate Jamie's body and his car form his house and bring them to the train station and not have one eye witness or CCTV camera (like maybe every Ring doorbell on every house on the street of this upscale neighborhood) catch him driving Jamie's car or end up with trace amounts of blood or other DNA on his clothes or his shoes or anything.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@Bazookatone1 love it. There’s so much to dislike about how things play out in this show

[@e-1074]

i actually like rip, but i totally agree with what you are saying

[@ytyoungrichnhigh]

Rip isn't that "smart" lmao.

[@Qwerty_Man_123]

Jack Reacher frfr

[@ElectricianAl]

Thinking those houses front doors can see the street is hilariously naive. Edit:although I do 100% agree about the plot armor.

[@MuadDab]

Every Dutton (+Rip) in the show is a written as a complete Mary Sue. No one is tougher or stronger than Rip. No one is smarter or more acerbic than Beth. No one is more politically omnipotent than John. No one is deadlier than Casey. It’s a show written for adult children.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@MuadDab no oooone fights like Gaston, no one’s right like Gaston

[@erocktherockjohnson5169]

Eh I mean kayce makes sense since he was a navy seal but other than that yeah

[@easternrebel1061]

At least casey was a navy seal so there is a somewhat logical explanation, but yes, the plot armor everyone except Jamie has is insane. Ironically Jamie was the only character I could kinda relate to. Bro was abused and exploited hos whole life, hated by his family for trying to do the right thing, yet I'm supposed to hate the guy?

[@dngn4774]

The only one who didn’t have plot armor was Lee, the oldest brother who died in episode one that’s almost never referenced again. That’s kind of what turned me off of the show. After the first three seasons I realized none of the villains had any chance of getting the upper hand over the Duttons. There’s no stakes to anything.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@dngn4774 He's much less a character and much more a first episode plot device

[@gajacome1]

Finally I’m with people who think the same way about Beth

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@gajacome1 You know what they say: “Beth is worse than meth”

[@gajacome1]

@ haha it’s funny on other videos people are constantly writing Beth is taking Jamie to the train station that phrase is driving me nuts and I’m sick of reading it. I don’t understand how everyone treats Jamie the way they do, everything he has done is to save the ranch, he understands the necessary evils he has to agree too.

[@dale85311]

It’s Sons of Anarchy for boomers. A tight knit gang that wastes dozens of hours never realizing their insufferable self serving behavior causes 99% of their own misfortunes. And the fans don’t see it either

[@TechTokOffical]

3:43 I can attest to this as not realistic portraital of life. I've been an a$$hole my whole life and have NEVER had someone be like "wow...ur ruthless. I could REALLY use that." Most times people just think I'm an a$$hole.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@TechTokOffical this is actually hilarious. Thank you hahah because it’s true. People don’t want to be around, do business with, or talk to an a$$hole. And yet we are shown time and time again that people like Beth???

[@TheodoraBrass]

Maybe this is finally your year to shine! 😉

[@MK384]

this is a reflection of where we are in our society: The bad, ignorant, and loudmouth, are basically who root for just because they sound tough and confident.

[@BigBlack81]

Avatars for the powerless tend to show up in fiction time and time again. Great comment, and I'm wondering if we'll see more of this during the 47th presidential term on all sides and slants. There's LOTS of streaming networks out now.

[@roysalazar7855]

The only, only, only good thing about this show ? Montana. Beautiful country. That's it.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

It is extremely pretty, which isn't a small plus. I feel like westerns really benefit from those landscape shots, but it's so hollow otherwise

[@roysalazar7855]

@ThisIsReviewable it's too bad with all that beautiful scenery, there's just ugliness in it

[@churchofthegreatpumpkin]

yes but then you get yellowstone tourists 😭 i was at murdochs today they had YELLOWSTONE JEWELRY. GET OUTTA HERE!!!

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@churchofthegreatpumpkin there's Yellowstone merch everywhere I seem to look its so obnoxious

[@roysalazar7855]

@churchofthegreatpumpkin that's what kills it

[@kendrojr]

As a Northern Arapaho who grew up in Wind River, his film about my people was one of the most sickening films I’ve ever watched. Natives getting ***** and killed only to then saved by a white guy in the end? Not only that he horrible misrepresented what my people look and sound like. Taylor Sheridan is just writing out his Wild West fantasies

[@im_flat]

Wind River is especially egregious because it takes a very real and serious issue (human trafficking and sexual abuse of native women) and writes the most offensive and terrible plot you could concoct instead of portraying the issue with any semblance of tact

[@KateeAngel]

The Duttons are crazy angry when anyone even comes close to their land, even though if it was not for those random people's tax money their giant piece of land would be burned down in the last wildfire. Ranchers would lose all their lands long ago if not for public services

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@KateeAngel this whole “all government always bad” sentiment is so juvenile to me. The opposite sentiment is also juvenile. Just seems like there’s no room for nuance in today’s America

[@melodytheatre2887]

I remember being literally so confused by all the praise the finale got as if we hadn’t all just watched two serial killers get away with the murder of some poor guy that we watched get abused by his serial killer family for 5 seasons. Justice for Jamie, wanting to see him get at least some type of catharsis or happiness after all he was put through was the only reason I was still watching 😭

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@melodytheatre2887 i haven’t seen part 2 of season five but if that’s how it ends I hate it already

[@malalford]

Dexter was a serial killer

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@malalford that’s true… are you pointing out that we shouldn’t root for Dexter if we root against the Duttons? If you are I have to point out that I have t seen Dexter so I can’t really comment

[@mjjf26]

Omg yes!!! I only watched this show for my dad. I HATED the way Jamie was shat on the entire show. He didn't usually deserve it either. They turned him into a pathetic loser just to shit on him more in season 5. It's not believable, they're a bunch of cartoon characters!

[@GodsStrongestHater69]

Yesssss finally someone agrees 😂 this show is super edgy cowboy fan fiction like i saw a scene where they fight/kill like 30 fuckin bikers and just get away with it. Or they roll up with all types of artillery in the middle of nowhere to beef with some Indians? Hate every second of it 😂

[@Brettmlyons]

Beth is the definition of a karen that everyome wanta gone.

[@Tehstampede]

Yellowstone is a Lifetime series for a specific type of man. That's really all there is to it; may as well analyze Cher's toxic behavior in Clueless, it's just a cheeseburger for the soul

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@Tehstampede maybe so… but at least Cher evolves in the end, these Duttons just kinda stay awful

[@PoliticalReptile]

Hate to break it to you but women absolutely love this show for some reason

[@diana2063]

Clueless was based on a Jane Austen novel FYI

[@vanyadolly]

The whole point with Cher is that she isn't as shallow as she appears just because she's a high school valley girl. She's a modern adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma.

[@mnk9073]

It's just 40 to 90 minutes of "Muh land" this, "Muh land" that, every single time...

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@mnk9073 RANCHIN’ We do it for the RANCH

[@AggressivelyMediocre]

Bro it took me forever to realize Jaime was supposed to be a BAD GUY. Cuz I was rooting for him to finally break free of Beth who’d been abusing him for years as he tried over and over to do the right thing. Beth was reason I stopped watching the show because I realized she was never going to get comeuppance

[@ThisIsReviewable]

That might be one of the most real things about this show, Beth (and other bad people) will probably never get what should be coming to them

[@AggressivelyMediocre]

Genuinely had to ask myself “Does he WANT me to hate these people?” And boy did you nail it with Monica. Literally the worst character in the show. Every plot with her revolved around sexism or racism. It was like the show felt that because it gave conservatives their power fantasies they had to give liberals their power fantasies. Unfortunately liberal power fantasies all revolve around the same oppression tropes.

[@desepticon4]

It’s never even addressed that he must have been scared what their father would do to her after what he did after Kayce got his girlfriend pregnant. It’s like they were planning to write a better show and then just decided not to. They ruined Jamie’s character.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@desepticon4 it’s so sad when you can see glimpses of what could have been and instead of giving us that they shit on it

[@AggressivelyMediocre]

@ judging from how Chief Rainwater went from villain of the show in season 1 to instantly noble Indian leader in the remaining show I think they had to change a lot about the show which hurt it. Also shows morals are all over the place. Kayce chastised a cop for shooting a kid who had a shotgun pointed at them and show acts like he’s morally superior when the cop had every right to fear for his life and plug that kid. Yet not a season later Kayce is threatening protesters with a gun.

[@brantheblazed4322]

I think the popularity of this show is a perfect representation of the general stupidity rampant in the audience.

[@diana2063]

This is it, exactly

[@miladrahim5437]

The show is tailor-made for those rightoids pretending machomasculine. They're its target audience.

[@rootin222]

Chad Fargo vs Virgin Yellowstone

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@rootin222 LOVE Fargo

[@rootin222]

@ Fargo is what Yellowstone thinks it is

[@rookiefloridasportsman7787]

I am a cowboy from Okeechobee. Now I’m a farm owner in the Myakka area. And we don’t have giant ranches here but I’ve been on some of the biggest for work. And this show makes me feel like I’m a vampire watching twilight. That’s the only way I can put it into words.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

lol that contextualizes it perfectly, despite vampires being fictional

[@europeannighean]

I just watched first episode of Yellowstone, and it's not for me. I may have skip some parts because I felt like it was taking forever. I know someone who lives on the farm, and they don't act like Dutton family. Also, which women in some part of universe speak like Beth? I much prefer watching the Beth actress in Sherlock Holmes movies than Yellowstone.

[@The_noticer-u2b]

Boomerslop for old men who flirt with the hooters waitress and think to themselves "yep, still got it" Same with Tulsa kings or any series catered to aging boomers

[@semibreve]

The show is conservative fan fiction. So many scenes are just gotchas or the writer's fantasy of owning the libs. It's funny how content on both sides of the spectrum have been falling into the "abrasive and mean = cool and empowered" fallacy.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

Right? It's so lame either way. I really hate been preached to, or seeing other sides being straw-manned and that's becoming so popular now in media.

[@MrContemplation]

It has everything to do with the death of a lifestyle and nothing to do with politics.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@ What do you mean? There are political hot buttons aplenty in this show. If you want to re-term those issues as "lifestyle" differences, then that's just semantics. Also if you want to argue that Taylor Sheridan has no political messages he wants to purport in his shows, you're gonna have to explain Landman too.

[@MrContemplation]

@ it’s only political if you frame it politically. What it’s really about is a family trying to save a way of life. It’s not political. I agree with a lot of the criticisms but to call it political is simply personal framing.

[@actualturtle2421]

Bro, it's the exact opposite lmao. It's, at best, retarded boomercon bullshit. In reality it's leftism in cowboy boots. You just see rural people and assume they're conservative because you are an urbanite midwit, and apply that framing to everything they do. The show literally reinforces all of your ideals. You're just not used to hearing them in a man's voice.

[@xtian1987]

A lot of The dutton's "villains" just feel like just people the writers dont like or dont agree with and just want to portray them as obnoxious or evil just to justify their dislike of them 😂😂😅😂

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@xtian1987 I think you’re getting pretty close to the truth with this comment

[@BrokePrairiePrep]

As a native guy. This show single handedly made me stop having conversations with my co workers about our favourite show. I’ve never seen it, but after having four separate white ppl say stuff along the lines “oh I’m sure you love yellow stone?!” Or “I know you must have seen Yellowstone!” and “have you seen Yellowstone yet?”And all this time I couldn’t for the life of me understand why I keep getting asked that. Then I watched it and was like… aha… now I see why they keep saying that.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

Have you seen Wind River? I'd be curious to hear what you thought of it since it's a front-and-center theme in that film

[@rosariocannistraro3561]

As a native too and a Montana native a show like Longmire is a thousand times better than that supremacist fantasy that is Yellowstone ,Those attitudes have always been out there growing up in the 80s and 90s in the west they just distilled them all into one show .

[@Oaksloves]

As someone from Montana, this show is made/produced by some rich kids who wanna play cowboy and is marketed to rich kids who wanna play cowboy. They and anyone worshipping this show should go out and work with horses or on a ranch for 5+ years. Really get their hands dirty, wake up before dawn to feed, muck, and tack, get trampled, bitten, bucked, etc. Understand how there’s really not much to do in these small towns except go to the bar, local rodeo, drink, and work, really make a point how boring it can get out there.

[@AWAL602]

13:12 it’s not just that he’s saying he only cares about his own ranch; he’s basically admitting to corruption; he’ll only do things if they enrich him and his family. He doesn’t have the interests of the State in mind; he’s the very definition of a corrupt politician.

[@thixiemattel]

beth is excruciating to watch because kelly reilly is incredible but all the potential of the character is constantly being dragged back to earth because of the insane borderline personality disorderish immaturity she’s cursed with because her mommy didn’t love her. you could say the same about jamie because his dad doesn’t love him. the duttons were awful parents which is fine but I DONT THINK THE SHOW KNOWS THIS.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

This actually made me lol I think growing up is realizing that Kelly Reilly is also the bitchy sister from pride and prejudice(2005).. And while beth and Caroline both are the worst, at least Caroline is written well..

[@theunknownuser9609]

I have a lot of problems too but the biggest one is precisely how out of touch iy is with what's on screen and what it wants to say. Sheridan wants you to root for John, Beth and Rip and hate Jamie when Jamie is the only slightly likeable character and Jonh, Beth and Rip suck. Shows with character that are bad guys are fine but those understand that the characters are bad guys. Yellowstone doesn't and that fucks with the viewing experience. Ultimately the best way to enjoy this trash is either turning off your brain or pretending it's a parody of boomer conservatives or rural folks. Best thing thats come out of Yellowstone is the prequel 1883. While it still is ultimately a soap opera is done wuth much more heart and has likeable characters. It's genuinely beautiful. Almost like another dude wrote it.

[@jaredkrol3739]

Jamie is definitely the most conceptually interesting character. But the later half of the series is basically Jamie character assassination over and over. He is shown next to no compassion outside of his utility to John

[@mohebbi71]

Yellowstone is beloved by some of my relatives... and there's reasons beyond their love of this show that makes me hesitant to spend much time with them

[@xXcajunblazeXx]

Lmao exactly

[@easternrebel1061]

Lemme guess, they see it as macho man Americana , a true embodiment of the American spirit, when in reality it's just a shitty crime drama of a corrupt evil family of serial killers?

[@dzonbrodi514]

Beth's only redeeming feature is that she is played by an amazingly charismatic actress with total conviction. The show doesn't deserve her.

[@naporeon]

I spent most of a week in the hospital, recovering from surgery, literally unable to sleep for more than 45 minutes at a time, with a limited number of streaming options to keep me company. Maybe it was the pain medication combining unfortunately with my love of cowboy flicks, but I watched 3 seasons of Yellowstone. I wasn't _impressed_ exactly, but I still have fond associations, owing to how it kept me going during a rough moment in my life. When I was on my way home, I told my wife that I'd watched and kind of liked the show. Being the one that usually has to find stuff to watch together, I suggested it to her. "What, that show about super-rich people being miserable on a ranch? No thanks."

[@angogoblogian4390]

Fuckin thank you. Finally, I found people who despise this “show”

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@angogoblogian4390 you’re not alone

[@dawgpost90]

I liked the show when it was a country mafia family situation, albeit a bit cheesy at times. The slop that it has become is insane.

[@easternrebel1061]

After season 1 it lost the plot completely IMHO. I stopped watching completely about halfway through season 2.

[@DestinyPifer]

Thank you! I despise Beth and Rip and can't understand why people worship their characters.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@DestinyPifer they’re both such chowder heads it really feels like the twilight zone

[@RascalMcGovens]

All this show became was a cowboy version of days of our lives with better cinematography...

[@Bazookatone1]

Because Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser are so talented that their talent and charisma can disguise how terrible the characters are.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@Bazookatone1 it’s a good point, I’ve fallen victim to the charisma trap before in other shows I’m sure

[@Silent_Shadow]

Because live their terrible cowboy depictions

[@vahlen5281]

The most ironic part about the show is had the Duttons arranged themselves with that Business guy from S1, most of the issues in later seasons would haver never come up. But antagonizing influential people for no reason is their whole MO. Yet the showrunners nonetheless postulate this idea of the Duttons being some galaxy-brain geniuses, when they're in fact just a bunch of cringe-ass, barely functioning violent psychopaths, who only succeed because the writers gave them ridiculous plot armour.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

YES.

[@branthandford2212]

It's an absolute shit show, Beth is intolerable. Glad it's done.

[@fahim102]

apparently, its getting 4 spin-off shows. The one that came out already, Landman, has not improved quality-wise. FML

[@Kilkenny1923]

Yellowstone is MAGA comfort food. It gives viewers permission to be the absolutely worst they can be. I''m only surprised they didn't write in a role for Trump.

[@Isaac-mc6er]

What do you mean? This show is a anti-Montana show, its fans are from the Coasts, no one person in the State likes the show, not one person in the prairie states likes the show, hell even all the Missoula people hate the show. The only people who watch and like the show are coasties and Canadian's.

[@polysyllobic]

Maybe I’m missing something since I haven’t seen the show in its entirety, but based on what this review presents I’m admittedly having a hard time reconciling the idea of “MAGA comfort food” with the character of Monica, who apparently takes every possible opportunity to remind white people that they are evil colonizers? Is there something more to this than what the reviewer presents?

[@TheTrevler]

Leave it to perpetually online people to bring up their political opponents up in online discussions that have nothing to do with them

[@vaultboy1419]

​@@TheTrevlerGotta seek that attention somehow. And nothing brings attention better than mentioning the big and horrible orange man. Because the other side loves him so much, he's their god, so if I mention his name in a bad light surely that will bring a lot of attention like moths to a flame. Why is everyone so dumbed down and obnoxious? Everything is a political discussion now, I'm tired of the internet, tired of people. People forgot how to have fun.

[@creed8712]

@@vaultboy1419hard to have fun when we can’t afford shit anymore and both Joe and Donald didn’t and said they can’t do anything about it

[@Likel3baws]

Montana resident. The show is bad. It really fucking sucks. This is extremely cathartic as everyone who I’ve talked to that I’ve told, the show is bad, they look at me like im crazy. It’s just bad. The amount of people who think it’s good and are moving here just because of a really really dumb show, is disturbing. The world would be better off without this god awful show.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@Likel3baws I truly am sorry so many people have invaded your state because of this garbage

[@fritzfxx]

Bro, you're going to end up on the Project 2025 deportation lists if you keep riling up the MAGA cult

[@Crazeddude1000]

FINALLY! Someone who gets it. This is a man who can think for them self. Keep it up man, be the ones who willing to go against the grain.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@Crazeddude1000 lol thank you so much, it just shocked me that basically no one else had made a video complaining about this show in a thought-out way (at least not when I went looking for it a few years ago)

[@fritzfxx]

The majority of American adults find this show insufferable. I feel bad for you if you are living somewhere that is not true.

[@Crazeddude1000]

@@fritzfxx It’s conservative fan fiction 😒

[@sprint429]

Yellowstone had a lot of potential that never manifested in its 5-season run. The filming, production, and backdrop were all great, but Taylor Sheridan failed to construct good character arcs in the show, notably for Beth and Jamie. Beth was not protagonist worthy, because she was sleazy and had no desire to better herself or others and Jamie was a bad antagonist, because he was victimized by his own family and got pigeonholed into the villain role. I quit the show after I started Part 2 of Season 5, because I was tired of getting angry and frustrated with the characters and I’ve been sleeping much better at night since then.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

lol I'm very glad to hear your sleep has recovered from this nightmare. It's adverse effects know no bounds apparently

[@og3dkooz1]

You spent that much time on something you hate? To see if it got better, I assume? Sounds like a monumental waste of your time 😅🤣

[@vaultboy1419]

If a mere show did that to you, then something is not right with you. The ones I like I watch seriously, the ones I don't I laugh at them. But I sure as hell ain't losing sleep over a SHOW.

[@og3dkooz1]

@vaultboy1419 Absolutely, man. This kid said he did it for "therapy." Traumatized by a television show🤣🤣 Imagine him having to go through real-life issues. 😵 💥🔫 Soft.

[@Mechanomics]

@@vaultboy1419Me when I'm so dense that I don't understand hat hyperbole is:

[@wjbushjr]

I think the worst thing about Beth is that I’ve yet to meet a woman who acts like this in business roles.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

As a general rule, it just would not work.

[@wjbushjr]

@@ThisIsReviewable Not only that but it pretty much downplays a lot of women who worked their ass off to get to their positions to just have: OH HEY LOOK AT ME I SWEAR AND DRINK LIKE A MAN. I AM A WOMAN BUT I SWEAR AND DRINK LIKE THE GUYS.

[@bigrich6075]

My sister has a boss who is sorta like Beth but more tone down.

[@kaianthony8077]

All my conservative friends treat this show like it's a better version of Mad Men lol

[@ThisIsReviewable]

Oh that's just insane. Those shows shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath

[@fritzfxx]

​@@ThisIsReviewablewhat if that breath is "shows that fit suspiciously easily into the common themes of fantasies of narcissistic misogynists".

[@heyitsgabriel6965]

It’s pretty much the country godfather ! The youngest son who was in the military that doesn’t want to join the family , the hothead blond , 1 son gets killed , 1 son who’s a lawyer but not really the son, it’s a copy and paste 🙄 also Beth does suck

[@alsndiego97]

I love westerns. I tried to like this. I really did. Couldn't even finish season 1. And I still don't get my parent's fondness for Beth. Its like being expected to root for Cersei Lannister.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@alsndiego97 it really is…

[@alsndiego97]

@@ThisIsReviewable I started binging The Great North as a palate cleanser

[@ARNYKATZ]

A friend recommended Yellowstone, so I thought I'd give it a try. After watching a few episodes I felt like I needed to take a scalding-hot shower to get clean again. To me, it's a show about stupid people doing stupid things for stupid reasons.

[@djangofett4879]

when dumb writers try to write extremely intelligent characters, it's always so painful. it always feels like a child's idea of intelligence.

[@albertw38]

I legitimately enjoy Yellowstone and the spinoffs and everything addressed here is 100% true

[@Awwscrewit]

I'm glad you stuck to the characters instead of trying to unpack the themes of Yellowstone(and now Landman). There is so much white nativism, misogyny, anti-intellectualism and straight up criminal apologetics it would take hours upon hours to dissect.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

Not to mention it's dicey and contentious territory that I'd really rather not even touch. I'll leave that to more qualified analysis and wack at the "low hanging fruit" as it were

[@eileenhetherington3704]

NAH. It's simple. Everything Taylor Sheridan writes f'ing sucks. Landman. ( it's a desk job, not a cutthroat wildcatting job, I KNOW because my husband supplies tools to Big Oil companies) The laughable 1883 ( chock full of historical inaccuracies, we live in Oklahoma and he got almost everything wrong) Tulsa King- just no.

[@marketteers]

The show started out good, but once they ruined the ranch house I was done. Every other episode is about the ranch hands acting like little girls and the Duttons throwing a huge party on their property (even though they are trying to save money and save the ranch). Tater ruined the show for me, and whatever happened to the cliff they threw all their dead bodies off of? Beth f’ing sucks

[@lewislorethe6553]

Ive only seen series 1 of this show so if you’re saying it starts out good then i can only imagine how shitty the show gets later because series 1 is absolute garbage

[@stormlakebobcat9058]

Teeter is Michael Landons daughter. He would cringe if he saw her now😅

[@drvonschwartz]

I'm with you. I went looking for the same video and was in disbelief that I couldn't find it.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@drvonschwartz it’s crazy no one else has, plenty of people seem to feel the same way we do

[@TheGardengal638]

I honestly thought Paramount was keeping bad video reviews out of view. I couldn’t find a single video critical of the series.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@TheGardengal638 Is the cowboy mafia actually real? Feel like it has to be. And they have a PR team

[@gleebybooer]

@@ThisIsReviewableI think it’s also partly because many of the shows viewers are older and don’t use KZbin at all, I am in college and none of my friends have seen it- but I read an article calling it “prestige tv” and was shocked at how it was just a slightly annoying cowboy soap opera. The characters are too unlikeable for me to consider it a watchable soap opera, even.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@ “prestige tv??” Good God…

[@williamwade3443]

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO!!!! I HATE BETH DUTTON!!! She's the worst character that was ever written. I hate how she blames and accuses Jamie for every freaking thing. Taylor Sheridan has a hard on for Beth.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

And then they bait and switch her death cause they have no balls to commit

[@jaredkrol3739]

Jamie was basically the whipping boy of the writers and the family in universe and it got old quick.

[@vizagothx7294]

like how did the writers not realize that every single person in montana would know about duttons little "train station"? like, what cowhand would willingly work for people who kill their own employees? this show was hot, wet garbage.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

Totally agree. There’s no such thing as a secret when it comes to stuff like that

[@jaredjensen4691]

It’s funny, on paper Yellowstone seems like the kind of show I would love. However, I had never seen it before until one day I was at a family member’s house and they were watching it. I sat down and watched exactly one episode and came away disappointed. I remember thinking that none of the characters are likable and I really don’t care to watch any more of this. I don’t want to offend anyone, but it came off as if it was written for the Trump era. All the characters came off as egotistical, selfish, and needlessly vulgar but without any real depth that could justify any of that. It was presented as we are supposed to like and care about these people BECAUSE they behave like that.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

Yeah... and I can promise as well that the characters don't endear themselves to you at all after that one episode you watched

[@penedulumskateco7691]

Written by liberals btw

[@JohnRStrachan]

If Americans idolise these characters, they scare me even more than normal.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@JohnRStrachan lol fair enough, but not all of us do… so don’t give up hope

[@JohnRStrachan]

@@ThisIsReviewable Yeah sorry I should've worded that better... thanks for making this video, I was looking for something like this for a long time

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@ no offense taken, glad you liked it

[@erocktherockjohnson5169]

Trust me we DONT lol. The yellowstone subreddit is full of people clowning on the show.

[@kevinmcgrane3014]

Then stay in yr country

[@alvinkey3468]

I would also add that i liked Monica's character for the first two seasons, but watching the third season, i realized that her character arc is just be depressed. Over and over again, be depressed and offended. Taylors writing is so shit.

[@jaredkrol3739]

Yellowstone is literally just a bunch of static archetypes the writers shove into the same situations over and over. Monica gets victimized. Beth has quips. Rip is a badass. Jamie is the whipping boy.

[@grodanboll8825]

Yellowstone is pure cringe.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@grodanboll8825 agreed my friend

[@thedudethatplaysguitar9882]

It insists upon itself

[@Arminian100]

I don't know how anyone got past episode one. Some grumpy white guy wants to fight native Americans about land boundaries and wants to fight off new houses being built? And decided to go to war over it? And his son died? Who cares? Play dumb games, win dumb prizes.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

I'm glad you jumped ship so early, saved yourself some headaches

[@Part-Time-Pope]

A show about fake tough guys for fake tough guys.

[@markeaton6435]

You speak of the guys that made some people a good bit of cash with their "Train Station" t-shirts and stickers.

[@adabsurdum5905]

Beth acts exactly like a huge portion of the target demographic for this show. That's why a lot of viewers love her so much. It's the same reason Ellen got a standing ovation at her last special. Mean people look up to mean people

[@ThisIsReviewable]

fair

[@TomisaLami]

I think the big problem today is that there's been so many movies with the bad guy being the protagonist and then just American culture turning into fascism so rapidly that people love to see terrible people do terrible things to other people. They want to praise the bully in general.

[@Michael-yu2yk]

I watched seasons 1-4 of this show on deployment (mostly because my external drive corrupted and this was one of the few shows I had saved on my desktop) and I hated it. This show is for wannabe cowboys who haven’t done anything masculine in their lives.

[@Depositron]

fckin finally. I was in to Yellowstone when I caught a few clips on KZbin shorts but the deeper in to it I got, the less interested I was. Maybe its neither here nor there, but Yellowstone also seems to be a big hit with the Back the Blue crowd which is ironic since the characters show *absolutely not regard for law enforcement*.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

THIS. This is a huge issue I have with the show as well.

[@andrewdarowski1975]

Oh, I'm sure the Venn diagram of Blue Bloods and Yellowstone lovers is just a circle.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@andrewdarowski1975 this made me laugh

[@BigBlack81]

@@ThisIsReviewable Second. I'm STILL laughing as I type this.

[@spiraljumper74]

Yellowstone is almost as bad as Bluebloods. Do The West Wing next. Fuck that show.

[@KnotyerbizKut]

It’s insufferable

[@jmhollingsworth8396]

I’ll never understand how anyone can like this show the acting is so bad too

[@quintonbrady3238]

You want my honest opinion? Supernatural, a cheesy over the top buddy cop monster hunting show with demons and angels and characters physically unable to stay dead has better writing, and over arching plot compared to Yellowstone. This shit is made for middle aged men who think they are ‘rougher’ than they are, and teenage boys who think the same damn thing. In short: this feels like a Facebook exclusive show. If you get that- you get my problem with it

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@quintonbrady3238 that is such a great and hilarious way to put it. A Facebook show 😂

[@dtowns]

Does anybody else remember the scene where Rip has to pretend to lose a fight against Jamie, who is A TRAINED NAVY SEAL! That was so ridiculous that I had to stop watching. I don’t give a shit how tough and badass a guy is supposed to be, there’s absolutely no way Rip is a superior fighter. Sheridan needs to remember that these are characters, not comic book heroes.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

If it was a to-the-death fight, my money is for sure on Casey, but I will admit, as a brawler, Rip likely has more experience and he's a lot bigger. But it's not like he's a prolific actual boxer or anything so having an issue with that scene makes sense to me

[@blakepipkin7536]

As much as I don't like rip I do generally disagree with the notion that just because someone's in special forces or even the millitary In general they suddenly know how to fight. I've been doing martial arts for awhile now and you would be surprised at how many millitary dudes think the limited hand to hand training they get somehow translates to the wrestling mat or the boxing ring. It's ultimately all about experiance, and as far as I'm aware rip would probably have more experiance fighting then Casey would.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@ do you know what rank or branch of the military they were in? I generally agree with you (and I'm assuming here) but if Casey was a Navy Seal and potentially high up I would expect some level of hand to hand combat was apart of training

[@blakepipkin7536]

@@ThisIsReviewable oh man I've trained with a bunch of millitary dudes and ladies, I can't really speak on everyone's rank or job just cause like, I never really asked usually, but the best dude I ever trained with who had a millitary back ground was a navy dude who I suppose was essentially a mechanic? But he was so good because he was a former state champion wrestler and he was actively competing at the time in bjj comps as well as amateur mma fights. I don't know for sure if I've ever trained with any special forces dudes, but based on what anyone ever told me about the hand to hand stuff they get taught in the millitay it's just some stuff that's either useless or it's just not really drilled in that much. I think it's kinda stuff they're taught just so in the event you happen to get in that close to the enemy they might have some confidence in what they're doing. In my experiance millitary people who come in and are brand new usually are about the skill level you would expect a new person to be, but they're often in better shape then a regular dude off the street and a little bit more athletic, but unless they've already been training they usually ain't anything special. Maybe the navy seals are different, I wouldn't know, but the best fighters i know are dudes who train to compete and most of those guys weren't in the millitary. That's why I say rip probably takes it because even though the show treats him like the incredible hulk most of the time he does seem to have more experiance beating up dudes with his hands then Casey would.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@blakepipkin7536 that makes perfect sense to me, I once got into an argument with my friend about whether a pro mma fighter would win vs delta force or navy seals and I was like… dude the pro mma fighters do this for a living

[@3dartxsi]

Taylor Sheridan TV projects feel like self-insert fan fiction for the worst kind of internet tough guys.

[@enjoythedecline3616]

Dude yes! Beth is awful, she's so unlikable, RiP is barley even portrayed as a human.

[@MrCondor26]

I guess i'm too much of "wOkE lIbtARd" for some folks, because boy do i hard disagree regarding Monica. I'll take a thousand Monicas and Summers over just ONE Beth Dutton any day of the week. 🤷‍♂️😁 Other than that, goddamn i'm glad some people are finally saying what NEEDS to be said about not only Yellowstone, but by extension every project that Taylor Sheridan has going on right now in TV, ESPECIALLY regatding Sheridan himself. Dude is so fuckin' high on his own "hollier than thou God of TV drama" supply these days. 🙄🤦‍♂️

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@MrCondor26 thanks for watching! I’m torn about finishing season 5 to make another video specifically about that, I just can’t stand grinding through this show.

[@MrCondor26]

@@ThisIsReviewable To be honest, i am watching it right now just to see how it ends, nothing more. I actually was enjoying it from the start, but as time went on and Sheridan starting shitting out other series, i started to pickup on both how much of a lazy as fuck "bOtH sIdEs BaD" type of Centrist he is with his writing/commentary, as well as how much egotistical premadonna he is with him having to control EVERYTHING, blow away budgets, and always self-inserting himself into his own work. Was even enjoying Tulsa King quite a bit until Stallone came out as Trump's newest out of touch celeb ballsucker. 🤦‍♂️ Wanted to try out Lioness, but already feels like a drag just getting through the first few episodes. And Landman already lost me when i saw all those TikToks of Billy Bob Thornton's character bitching about windmills, which felt so "oWn tHe lIbS wHo dOn'T lIvE iN tHe ReAl wOrLd"-type forced, and complete with Mexican/South American-esc "Piss Filter". As if Sheridan is trying to pander to the most of the low-IQ roughnecks out there who have such a irrational and vitriol HATRED enviromentalists/climate change activists and new Green Technology because their betters (i.e. their bosses and the Right-Wing Oil & Gas lobbyist politicians that they voted for) told them to hate all of it, while he's ALSO trying to say "Fuck you!" to Big Oil/Fossil Fuel corps and the government ect. 🙄🤦‍♂️ The guy is so far up his own ass that he truly believes he can have his cake AND eat it, too! LOL 🤣🤣🤣 So yeah, i think i'm done with Taylor Sheridan after Yellowstone is done. 🤷‍♂️

[@eileenhetherington3704]

Thank you for this video. It's not just Yellowstone. It's ANYTHING Taylor Sheridan writes. Absolutely, Yellowstone is f'ing ridiculous. A bunch of whiny ass violent disturbed rich "ranchers" in designer "Western" clothing looking for opportunities to assault or kill people. 1883 was so historically inaccurate it was laugh out loud funny. Tulsa King was filmed in an abandoned office building 5 blocks from my house in Oklahoma City. I knew people on the crew. Absolute garbage scripts and storyline. Landman? Absolutely false premise. Landmen spend most of their time in the office. It's a desk job. In the oilfield, rig workers know it can be dangerous but there is no bullshit drama, just hungover workers, cranky bosses and the occasional accident. It's like they are trying to re-do "There Will be Blood" as a soap opera tv series. Everything Sheridan writes is complete garbage.

[@FlyingFocs]

I genuinely feel like you could write a western type show with the antagonists being like the Duttons, change basically nothing, and you’d have some amazing villains.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

You totally could

[@j.a.1785]

Montana 90210 Yellowstone is god awful.

[@hitokiribattousai6406]

This is peak Boomer entertainment. If you bootstrap yourself hard enough, you'll be able to buy half the state of Montana.

[@Squella7]

I watched a random scene some months ago. I couldn't stop rolling my eyes at all the macho men speeches and quips. I could immediately tell i was not the target audience by a margin of many years...

[@JL-ze5qm]

Thank you for finally putting into coherent words just why I don't love this show. It's not terrible. It's just badly written. Tries too hard to be shocking and is just ridiculous.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

I'm just trying to give the people what they want. So thank you

[@justinpeterson5821]

I never thought the Duttons were even half decent people so i rooted for the land rather than the characters.

[@72jonboy]

There are no likeable characters in this show. Everyone is horrible.

[@lunarlightasmr4660]

I think my issue with Yellowstone was they tried *far, far* too hard to focus on *far, far* too many characters. In the first few episodes, I had the impression this was going to be a story following Kayce and his family struggling against the rest of the Dutton family and their ways, given his split ‘loyalties’ and history. Instead it…spiraled into a chaotic mish mash of Sopranos meets Sons of Anarchy meets fuckin’ Bonanza, all while trying to do social and political commentary. Yellowstone just attempted to have way too wide of a scope, and it did not work out, imo.

[@ThisIsReviewable]

@@lunarlightasmr4660 yeah…and since Sheridan is writing almost every episode plus all his spin-offs there’s just no time to polish anything (I imagine)

[@lunarlightasmr4660]

@ I agree with the polishing part. I also think, from my experience with Sheridan’s work, he does really, really well with more ‘closed’ and ‘contained’ storylines so to speak. Stories that follow a single character or group of characters, on one arc, with that arc as the focus, 1883 being a great example of this. It’s the story of the Dutton’s journey, and that’s it. It was awesome, and very well done. I dunno, I think Sheridan is great at contained stories, but nearly all his projects that were more open ended and too expansive to fall apart

[@x2z964]

I just started this series a month ago and I can't for the life of me understand the love for it. Who are the good guys? The family chef dude is about the only one I don't want to see butchered in a brutal manner. And wtf was with the S3 ending? That was some blatant plot armor, horrible writing. I will never be fooled by 5 star reviews again, complete deception!

[@ThisIsReviewable]

Totally agree. We too have been burned by 5-star reviews

[@mistertwister2000]

Yellowstone lives in the same place to me that Reacher does. It comes off as something that a 15 year old boy made trying to seem cool.

[@tedwojtasik8781]

Your analysis was spot on, just an outrageously stupid show. The dumbest aspect of this show is it completely contradicts one of the main premises and promises of its prequel, 1883. At the end of 1883 the Dutton family is granted four generations of land STEWARDSHIP, not ownership, STEWARDSHIP by the native tribe which owns the land. Both parties agreed to this. The Dutton's do not and never have owned this land and are 100% screwing over the natives. This is never addressed in the series. Plus, if it were addressed the Dutton's could have solved the collective problem they and the tribe had in regard to development and encroachment. The Dutton's could have simply given the land back to the tribe LIKE THEY AGREED TO DO IN 1883 with the caveat they could stay on until John Dutton died, especially as none of his malignant idiotic kids even wanted to stay there in the first place. Who TF was Johnny boy saving this land for? After his #1 son died in season one, the only one who wanted the land, the only one who gave a single shit about the land, the very premise of the show was moot. That is some next level dumbass writing right there.