Watched the premiere tonight. Not sure what to think yet. Leaning hard to it might just suck. Seems like I have seen some of this before (Longmire). Already dislike almost every single character other than the Native American wife and her son. Everyone else seems to be a total unmitigated ******* or a suck up toady. Not sure that is going to do much to get me watching.
Yellowstone - new TV "western"
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Fun anecdote: Jefferson White, who plays Jimmy ("last-chance" criminal living in a trailer who gets tased/branded and brought in to labor on the ranch), is an Iowa native and ISU alum.
Have it recorded on my DVR to watch this weekend. Hard to really gauge most new shows off of 1 episode so I usually will give a show 2 or 3 episodes. I have a hard time getting too attached to new shows anymore because too many of them seem to get canceled after just 1 or 2 seasons.
As someone who works in the natural gas business AND lives in the west, this show will not be my cup of tea.
Watched the premiere on DVR last night and it was good enough that I'll give it a shot and keep watching. It's basically a "modernized western" and if you never really liked westerns or don't see this show as a true wstern I could see how this show may not appeal to some. Has some good plots to it with the old school rancher (Kevin Costner) fighting to keep his family land from being taken over by both the Indian reservation and the rich developers. Some internal family struggles too with the son that feels his father sees him as a disappointment, the outcast son who has a child with an Indian woman, and the daughter who moved to the city but is back to do the "dirty work" of infiltrating the rich developer and finding out his plans.
Definitely a lot to process in the first episode, the opening scene was a dramatic attention getter once they panned out the view of what had happened.
Definitely a lot to process in the first episode, the opening scene was a dramatic attention getter once they panned out the view of what had happened.
These are the roles that Costner nails... No nuance, no growth, monotone talking, etc... but I still love him in all his vanilla roles.
Costner is such a good actor you can barely tell he IS acting.
I wanted to hate him as Jonathan Kent, but I couldn't really do it.These are the roles that Costner nails... No nuance, no growth, monotone talking, etc... but I still love him in all his vanilla roles.
Costner is such a good actor you can barely tell he IS acting.
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The ratings for Yellowstone have been fairly good apparently and the series has been renewed for season 2. I have to say as the season has progressed as much as I like Kevin Costner's character his daughter and the guy that is the branded farm hand she fools around with are becoming the 2 characters that have had the best story lines so far as they both seem to have some dark history. It's a slowly progressing story but I like how they are peeling back the layers behind the history of the characters as the story lines progress.
The ratings for Yellowstone have been fairly good apparently and the series has been renewed for season 2. I have to say as the season has progressed as much as I like Kevin Costner's character his daughter and the guy that is the branded farm hand she fools around with are becoming the 2 characters that have had the best story lines so far as they both seem to have some dark history. It's a slowly progressing story but I like how they are peeling back the layers behind the history of the characters as the story lines progress.
After the first episode I wasn't sure I would like it but each episode gets better.
Wife and I are 4 episodes (out of 5) into it and we are hooked.
I DVR’ed the first 2 episodes and deleted them after seeing the opener. There’s no recovery from that level of bad.
Are all episodes available on the Paramount App or SlingTV through the channel? I don’t have the package that has the Paramount channel, but would add it if I could watch all the episodes.
Can't wait till season 2, hopefully it is early in 2019. Lot of good story lines left hanging in the season finale. Kevin Costner has been great in his role but I think my favorite character so far has been Rip and the episode that had the flashback to how he became one of the branded men really added some perspective to the story behind him. While rural Iowa is not the range of Montana I've been sucked in by some of the story lines as I know just how much people in this state will do anything to keep farm land in their family name over generations before they will sell it to someone that wants to develop it.
Season 2 trailer just came out and my first reaction to some of the story lines being teased: WOW!
I really tried with this show but god was it bad. After 6 episodes of constantly having random people show up for Casey to kill I gave up on it. It had a very promising premise, but some extremely lazy and idiotic writing did it in for me.
Kelly Reilly in the water tank was a bonus though.
Kelly Reilly in the water tank was a bonus though.
I get that it's probably not for everyone just like I cant get into shows like The Walking Dead or other big shows everyone seems to like. Yellowston surprisingly the highest rated summer cable show and grew its ratings from week to week so it turned into a bigger hit than anticipated. The season finale was quite an episode too leading into this season I think. I'm excited it got renewed for another season as it quickly became one of our favorite shows to watch last summer.
And yes the water tank scene was quite a treat.
And yes the water tank scene was quite a treat.
Anyone been watching Season 2 this summer? It sure hasn't been a letdown from Season 1 and in some ways I think its been even better. Sucks there is only 2 episodes left of this season then have to wait until next summer for a new season. The acting is really good in this series and the story lines have not disappointed either. The addition of Neal McDonough to the cast to play a new villain character has added nice twist to the stories that where already setup in season 1. Have really enjoyed the behind the story videos they post on YouTube and Facebook after episodes air where the actors break down what happened and add some more insight into the characters. This may be one of the best things Kevin Costner has starred in his career but the rest of the cast have been very good too, especially Kelly Reilly this season probably deserves to win some kind of award for last week's episode alone.
