Posted on 11/13/2021 7:32:20 PM PST by simpson96
Every week there’s a new chart from Digital Entertainment Group of the movies most watched at home, rented on DVD or digital.
This week, “Free Guy” starring Ryan Reynolds, which I watched on a plane this weekend and was very enjoyable, was number 1.
Number 3 was M. Night Shyamalan’s “Old.” Beats me why, I thought it was terrible.
More importantly, number 2 was “Yellowstone, Season 4.” Number 11 is “Yellowstone Season 1.” Number 19 is Season 3.
“Yellowstone” is a TV series, and it’s the only in the top 20. In three spots.
“Yellowstone” is a rare phenom these days. As everyone reported recently, the Season 4 premiere o the Paramount Channel broke records for a cable show with well over 9 million people tuning in. “Yellowstone” did better than almost all broadcast network shows. It performed like “The Walking Dead” in its early, popular seasons.
What does this all mean? First of all, Kevin Costner, thirty years after “Dances with Wolves,” still has his finger on the pulse of the mainstream. He was a Reagan Republican back then, and something he’s doing now is tapping into that again. Of course, this time he’s doing it in partnership with another master storyteller, Taylor Sheridan.
Water cooler shows are hard to come by. But “Yellowstone” has tapped into something out there, and it’s worth paying attention. Is it the soap opera? The Western angle? Are these MAGA people? And if they are, what does that say about the electorate sitting at home. “Yellowstone” is set in Montana and shot in Utah. Not in Beverly Hills or Manhattan or any place urban or Blue. This is something to take notice of if you’re the Democratic party looking at mid term elections.
Stay tuned…
(Excerpt) Read more at showbiz411.com ...
John Dutton loves ‘control’.......of his family, even to the point of branding!
“The Unit” reruns, start to finish. Or “Person of Interest”
LOL! They replaced all of ours - and many of our water fountains - with spigots dispensing ‘filtered water to fill your own environmentally-aware, BPA-free water bottle.’
“I must be one of the few that doesn’t like the show.”
one of the most ridiculous, stupidest, unrealistic, nonsensical shows i’ve ever tried to watch ....
It does put their shocking obsession with their supposed racial superiority of their tribe in clear focus.
Most of us have no interest in living in an area populated only by people with a similar racial heritage and continuously hone a grievance from 200 years ago. But, it's good to expose it.
LOL!
My husband started watching a really gross, stupid sci-fi film tonight. About a third of the way through, I said, ‘this is really gross and stupid’.
He said, ‘Yeah, it is’, and turned it off.
(I don’t often win them that easily...)
I agree with your criticism, Guenevere.
NOT and uplifting series!
I watched the first couple of shows, hoping they might be something like the Longmire series.
Refused to watch any more of them - too dark and depressing - filled with unlikeable characters!
I don’t think it was ever revealed how Kasey got branded. Maybe he took the iron voluntarily!
Interesting show. My husband loves it. We also started bing watching the old series “Hell on Wheels”.
I thought it was a great movie.
I enjoy Yellowstone too. Been watching it from the beginning. Did you know that a spin-off series, titled "1883" will start airing on Sunday, December 19th? It's a prequel of Yellowstone. They gave us a teaser at the beginning of this season's first episode.
Longmire was another favorite of mine.
I love “Yellowstone” too. But it is hardly “Red State Comfort Food”
Not only was it, from the beginning, “white man stole all the indian’s land” as mentioned above.... THIS season, (and the end of last season) “The Militia” is the bad guys (along with “big business” trying to steal not only the Yellowstone Ranch, but more indian land).
But then what we are learning about Blackrock and other hedge funds lately, that latter might be more on target than I would have thought a couple years ago.
In some ways, it is “Game of Thrones” in a modern setting, and smaller scale.
Mrs CC and I love Yellowstone. Looking forward to trying the prequel and 6666.
When people that haven’t seen it ask me what it’s about I simply tell them; “It’s The Sopranos on a ranch”...ha ha ha
Longmire was first....
I liked The Postman” as well. We received passes to a screening prior to its release. We were selected to stay after and sat with a group of other viewers to give our thoughts on the movie.
As we were leaving the theater the theater employees were all abuzz with excitement. It seems Costner was sitting behind us listening to our critique and made a quick exit just before we were dismissed.
I wanted to like it.....because I like Westerns!
John Wayne....some Clint Eastwood.....etc
But this show, even with its interesting elements, is too raw.....
Dutton branding people.......the railroad of death.......too much misery in a world filled with misery right now.
My husband and I have rediscovered ( 1950 era) the vintage Real McCoy series......
....and it is such fun!
I’m waiting for Ozark to return. Until then I’ll just watch docs/educational stuff.
In the interest of full disclosure, I never watched that one, either.
Neither did I
“…with well over 9 million people tuning in. “
A whole 9 million in a nation of 330million.
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