Yellowstone (2018-24)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.00:1 TV - 5 seasons
Director: John Linson, Taylor Sheridan
Cast: Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Cole Hauser, Danny Huston, Wes Bentley, Kelsey Asbille, Jefferson White, Gil Birmingham, Forrie J. Smith
Synopsis:
A Montana rancher fights to protect his inheritance from the predations of big business that wants to build on it, and Native Americans who want it back.
Review:
Remember Dallas? Well, this is forty years on and the story tropes are similar, as are some of the characters and situations. You might also think of The Godfather, just a little. Like all such series it is over-extended and takes an eternity to mark its beats, with scenes that come and go a dozen times. But then it's about the characters, and boy do we love 'em: whether it's Costner, righteous but implacable, or Hauser, who does soft and strong equally well, or members of the sizeable supporting cast like Will Patton. It all gets a bit melodramatic in places, and inconsistent too (could a forty year-old man about to become Attorney General really never have had sight of his birth certificate, and could a teenage girl undergo a hysterectomy and still go home the same day and convince her boyfriend nothing was amiss?); but the themes are contemporary even if the show sometimes seems old-fashioned: how to strike a balance between progress, expansion and conservation, which foods to grow and produce, whether to restrain corporate greed, whether it is ever right to abuse political power, even for the right reasons, and not least, how to render justice to the disenfranchised American Indian.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.00:1 TV - 5 seasons
Director: John Linson, Taylor Sheridan
Cast: Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Cole Hauser, Danny Huston, Wes Bentley, Kelsey Asbille, Jefferson White, Gil Birmingham, Forrie J. Smith
Synopsis:
A Montana rancher fights to protect his inheritance from the predations of big business that wants to build on it, and Native Americans who want it back.
Review:
Remember Dallas? Well, this is forty years on and the story tropes are similar, as are some of the characters and situations. You might also think of The Godfather, just a little. Like all such series it is over-extended and takes an eternity to mark its beats, with scenes that come and go a dozen times. But then it's about the characters, and boy do we love 'em: whether it's Costner, righteous but implacable, or Hauser, who does soft and strong equally well, or members of the sizeable supporting cast like Will Patton. It all gets a bit melodramatic in places, and inconsistent too (could a forty year-old man about to become Attorney General really never have had sight of his birth certificate, and could a teenage girl undergo a hysterectomy and still go home the same day and convince her boyfriend nothing was amiss?); but the themes are contemporary even if the show sometimes seems old-fashioned: how to strike a balance between progress, expansion and conservation, which foods to grow and produce, whether to restrain corporate greed, whether it is ever right to abuse political power, even for the right reasons, and not least, how to render justice to the disenfranchised American Indian.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.00:1 TV - 5 seasons
Director: John Linson, Taylor Sheridan
Cast: Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Cole Hauser, Danny Huston, Wes Bentley, Kelsey Asbille, Jefferson White, Gil Birmingham, Forrie J. Smith
Synopsis:
A Montana rancher fights to protect his inheritance from the predations of big business that wants to build on it, and Native Americans who want it back.
Review:
Remember Dallas? Well, this is forty years on and the story tropes are similar, as are some of the characters and situations. You might also think of The Godfather, just a little. Like all such series it is over-extended and takes an eternity to mark its beats, with scenes that come and go a dozen times. But then it's about the characters, and boy do we love 'em: whether it's Costner, righteous but implacable, or Hauser, who does soft and strong equally well, or members of the sizeable supporting cast like Will Patton. It all gets a bit melodramatic in places, and inconsistent too (could a forty year-old man about to become Attorney General really never have had sight of his birth certificate, and could a teenage girl undergo a hysterectomy and still go home the same day and convince her boyfriend nothing was amiss?); but the themes are contemporary even if the show sometimes seems old-fashioned: how to strike a balance between progress, expansion and conservation, which foods to grow and produce, whether to restrain corporate greed, whether it is ever right to abuse political power, even for the right reasons, and not least, how to render justice to the disenfranchised American Indian.