I can't tell if the comic is turning 20 or if that's just a dig at how long the show has taken lol.

It's odd that 8 out of 9 of your comment history has been awarded in some way or another.

Oof, I struggle with Tate and his weird ass relationship with his bath-giving mother. I don't even know how old this kid is supposed to be in-universe, but he's old enough to take his own baths and know what an erection is.

Only kind of related to that video, but I think that automatic dismissal of anybody who criticizes the show as elitist is a bit unfair. I like the show, but in large brush strokes, it has been the same story 4 years in a row about how outsiders want to take the ranch away. I also disagree heavily with this being an "unknown" show online, the Rip/Beth memes have been around for years and it's a staple of the front page of this sub during its season.

Oh was it a plane? That's what I meant by the helicopter.

You: Give me examples.

Me: Okay, here's ten.

You: LALALALALALALA

Beth could easily be such a great character and Kelly Reilly could absolute kill some more rounded traits. They just cannot seem to write her as anything other than absolutely as vile as possible.

One of the most unintentionally funny scenes in Season 4 was when Jackie Weaver's CEO character fires Beth, tells her how she broke her contracts, had contact with both the environmentalists and the media, and how they have a slam dunk case for corporate espionage and Beth was like "Good luck".

Good luck with what? She just explicitly outlined the exact ways that you broke the law, all of which are exceedingly easy to prove, and how your ass would realistically be in prison in a few weeks. Of course it won't happen, but I just thought it was funny.

The cinematography is gorgeous.

I agree. In your opinion, who is the show trying to appeal to?

> That might be a slight facade, because the dynamics of the family itself, which the show revolves around, are not conservative.

I don't even know what this means.

>Surface level viewers will see the things you mentioned because that is as far as they want to go.

I mean...I just gave you the overarching plot of every season? Not really sure how they are surface level.

>Kevin Costner is behind this, and he's probably politically diverse.

His speech literally used the phrase "the wall that progression bashes against". A speech that is then in the next episode called "prophetic". I don't know how much more clear that can be.

>People that paint this as right leaning or pandering

It is right leaning. Every single main antagonist so far has been some sort of liberal coastal elite, with the exception of the Texas brothers who then end up being white supremacist elites. The antagonists for season 1 magically see the errors of their ways after understanding the Montana way of life and teaming up with the Duttons in season 2. Monica has multiple scenes showing her as a screechy liberal shrew pulling Kayce from his family legacy while still happily spending the family's money. The entire Yellowstone brand plotline is a literal cult/gang that you have to kill to get into and have to die to get out of. Jamie is repeatedly shown to be a spinless, cowardly pussy because of his elite coastal education to the point where he cries multiple times on screen begging for his family's acceptance. And then, he's actually SUCH a pussy, it's genetic and he was never really part of the family anyway. Because that makes sense. Every problem is solved with Beth walking in bitchily or Rip punching the issue and multiple women who stand in the way of John succumb to his magical cowboy dick.

Talk about a surface level understanding of a show, I could easily go on and on.

> But you're coming off as just a contrarian without providing a lot of evidence.

1. Helicopter (Edit: Airplane Bomb)

2. Dinosaur bones

3. People bones

4. Jamie's child for like 2 whole seasons

5. Tate's varying issues with PTSD

6. Jimmy being paralyzed....twice...for like two episodes.

7. Edit: The California boy whose mom had a flat tire and was then gunned down.

>Beth, Rip, etc. are some of the better written characters on modern TV.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

> because it’s about people on the political right and their way of life.

The show isn't about anybody's way of life, it's complete fantasy.

First of all, I like Yellowstone.

Second of all, the people who think the show isn't EXTREMELY conservative are the other side of the coin as the people who were surprised Homelander is a bad guy.

I actually just caught up on Seasons 3 and 4 after previously having binged 1/2. I think the latter two seasons spin their wheels a bit much that is amplified by a binge, but I still think they are worth watching.

Binging season 4 I think was the first time I have fast forwarded through annoying scenes (Horses spinning, Jimmy in Texas, even Kayce's later scenes) in any show, ever.

> The writing is up there with some of the best shows in TV.

What? There have been dozens of storylines that have been completely dropped. Every single person has like two characteristics at most. And this is from someone who likes the show.

The politics on the show absolutely are right leaning. The two main antagonists of season 1 are a California Liberal Elite and a Native American leader taking advantage of reservation laws to try and steal the Dutton's land. In season 2, it's the Texas brothers who want to develop the land. In season 3 and 4 it's the New York liberal elite developers with a minor thread of a Berkeley-led environmentalist who literally has her world rocked by the lead cowboy's dicking. Every season has multiple Californian minor antagonists or comically stupid tourists who often die for their mistakes and the entire point of every season so far has been the Duttons accumulating political power to, in John Dutton's winning governor's speech "be the wall progression bashes against".