ITT people complaining about Yellowstone based on their imagination.

it's a crazy show. and so is it's prequel 1883 (which turned one of the shallow assumptions of Yellowstone on its ass), and i imagine the 1883 sequel, 1923, will be as well. it's one of those shows, like Sopranos, where a chud can enjoy it because bang bang / mean words / yee haw, but it contains the multitudes. so basically, the ideal entertainment product for $$$.

Taylor Sheridan is a white hot commodity with pen and camera, and Paramount was brilliant to let him run absolutely wild with a story where the main character is a chunk of land in a specific place over 140 years. my other favored works of his

• Sicario (screenwriter)
• Those Who Wish Me Dead (adapted novel to screen, much improved over source material though fairly boiler plate action set piece)
• Wind River (writer & director debut, this is what made me obsessed)
• Mayor of Kingstown (series creator, writer & director)

besides the Coen brothers' (as seen especially in No Country for Old Men), Sheridan is one of the only people i am seeing in major dramatic production who shows places and especially land in a way that reveals its close tenderness and its uncaring hostility with love and fear. in movies he does it quicker, but TV lets him build set pieces and their impacts slower, subtler.

i think his ability to create this emotive seeing and draw tension reached a new level when he worked with Villenueve on Sicario, because there's been times i'm just like chilling on the couch watching some some slow burn investigation and i realize that my jaw is clenched and parts of my body are tensed up like a string about to snap. he has got the moves.