i had this weird notion in the first season that the show would be about land conflict between the white rancher, extractive energy capital formations, luxury home developers, BLM, the National Parks Service, Forest Service, and the indigenous tribes because that part of Wyoming has this really contentious history and present where these various interests have repeatedly collided and it could be elucidated in a character driven drama about the people, communities and institutions ensnared by these interests.

and like sometimes they nibbled around the edges of this, teasing like it would be the big arcs, but it rapidly just became a show about hardcharging pricks trying to big dick each other in and around this toxic power family at the center of it all. in short, it just became every other show i don't give a shit about only the setting, context, and establishing shots are not Lower Manhattan or West Hollywood or Near North Side, Chicago.

it sucks harder than it should have, because i believe there's an untold story there worth bringing to a wider audience.