Who Are the Lords of America?(Yellowstone/Kevin Costner)

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[DIRTYSECRET]

John Dutton(Costner) is a petty lord struggling to maintain his power, rights, and his patrimony. The Indians in the show are a reminder of what happens when your team isn’t strong enough to ward off the others. The message is that you can become the new Indian. There are no “rights”-only power — and those who either can’t or won’t wield it will be lorded over by those who can.

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[DIRTYSECRET]

Heard positives about this series and checked it out of the library. It was victimology 101. Guilt trips over the Indians, evil capitalists and a slutty blonde. This writer watched 3 seasons worth and I quit on it after one hour. The fact that there's a long-term market for this kind of stuff suggests we got a lot of work to do.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Same thing happened when I checked out “Rome”. It started with the sex and how evil the powerful are. It lasted 30 minutes.

Now 1923 is out there. Perhaps it’s the Helen Mirren’s and the Harrison Ford’s who will help promote it but I for one won’t bother.

[Hot Tabasco]

I loved it, the best series I have ever watched. As for the slutty blonde, she was the only one in the family with the balls to do what needed to be done to hold on to the land their family has held for generations.

It was the Dutton's against the world, with the world being the Indians, corporate land grabbers and the govt.

[yldstrk]

YucK I can’t stand Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford. Terrible actors.

[yetidog]

“Indians, corporate land grabbers and the govt.”
These are plot lines, not metaphors for the disadvantaged, weak, powerful or otherwise. And it is a movie for goodness sake. Guess you can interpret it as a morality play or metaphor if you want to.

[smokingfrog]

It’s a cowboy soap opera.

[DIRTYSECRET]

If you say so. Perhaps I needed to give them some slack in the form of more episodes. I’m too old for that.

Sex and the city-watched 3 seasons. Loved that Samantha chick. Made me laugh.

Then there was Downton Abbey. A spoof coming off the heels of The Remains of The Day and Gosford Park. Too much class conflict. I guess conflict sells. Jerry Springer knew it.

[Zathras]

David Rockefeller bought most of the Jackson, WY area back in the 60’s

[LouAvul]

Old news. Why bother? Popular series initially but turned into the Beth Dutton Attention Whore Show. Horrible character played by a mediocre actress.

[bobbo666]

Watched a couple of episodes, nothing more than a Costner vanity project.

Oh, and anyone denying that humans have inalienable rights needs to be shot on sight.

[DIRTYSECRET]

**These are plot lines, not metaphors for the disadvantaged, weak, powerful or otherwise. And it is a movie for goodness sake.**

I see it as another guilt trip put on us by the left.

[bitt]

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[7thson]

I watched about three seasons of it, and started watching the 1888 or whatever prequel. I got turned off by the two things. One - Dutton wins the governorship. I realize it is a tv show but in the real world of politics, his gangsterism would have been uncovered very quickly - especially the train station. Two - I got bored with the surliness of every character. Someone says good morning and it’s an in your face reply.

[7thson]

I guess you missed those they take to the train station.

[7thson]

The Duttons were just gangsters wearing cowboy hats. Another program where the viewer is forced to root for the least offensive bad guy. Not a redeemable character in the program.

[1Old Pro]

Yellowstone was a great series, 1883 pretty good and 1928 was also very interesting and entertaining. It beats everything on legacy tv.

[dangus]

I couldn’t disagree with you more about Harrison Ford. Yes, he makes Indiana Jones and Han Solo seem very similar... but that’s what makes Raiders of the Lost Ark so damned funny: Even though Dr Jones is in the role of being ice cool, inhuman superhero, he persistently deviates from that trope to humanize himself but does so subtly, he doesn’t undermine the characterization. In the very interaction that establishes him as a James Bond-type ladies’ man, he’s comically unsettled by the clever forwardness of a man-hungry student. The chops to pull that off is way rarer than the sort of bawling your eyes out that routinely wins Oscars. (Sometimes, he’d be a little broad, like with snakes.)

[Keyhopper]

1923=new Coke

[DesertRhino]

100% with you. The Indians are brave poets who revere the land. The father daughter relationship is depraved. The goofball Taylor Sheridan version of cowboy culture was childish. The woman from “Texas” that had an accent like a mouth full of marbles.
The SEAL veteran with PTSD. Probably 75 shootout murders and terror bombings in a small Montana town and no federal agency notices. Ninjas and hit men sneaking around killing people. The de rigeur white supremacist gang taken out in a night raid ambush. The biker gang taught a lesson by the cowboys. The idiotic “train station” where nothing can be prosecuted.
And most of all, Christianity is trashed and mocked every time it comes up.
This was one of the most hard left shows on TV. It mystifies me that people cannot see that.

If it helps, 1883 and 1923 were even more woke. Both of those were fem-centric female power and sex fetish fantasy films.

[larrytown]

Author of article missed it, and clearly doesn’t understand what Justice is.

Like so much of the product of Hollywood (and make no mistake, Sheridan and his productions are pure Hollywood) - these are the ancient stories are just being recast in the ‘American genre’, which is ‘the West’.

The ‘end’ of the series was pointless, as the immoral survivors attempt to buy/surrender their way to some form of peace, which was a cheap cop-out.

The characters deserve their own justice, to pay for their own voluminous crimes - if the show continued in rational form, they would all be hunted down and exterminated in their peaceful, idyllic hideaways.