Kevin Costner Hates ‘Yellowstone’ November 12, 2024
On Sunday, Yellowstone finally returns, delivering the back half of its fifth and final season nearly two years after the season’s first half began to air. But all is not well in the land of the Duttons.Since its 2018 debut, Yellowstone—a sweeping fa...
'Yellowstone' Captures the True Mindset of America November 04, 2024
Yellowstone is the most popular TV show in America, but somehow also a well-kept secret. When the first episode of its penultimate season was shown on American television a couple of years ago, more than 12 million people watched it live. For context...
‘Longmire’ Is the Perfect Show for Fans of 'Yellowstone' September 29, 2023
It's easy to attribute the recent success of the Western genre to a series like Taylor Sheridan's Yellowstone. As one of the most-watched television shows of our day, not to mention the general hype surrounding the Dutton family, it's hard to ignore ...
Taylor Sheridan Does Whatever He Wants June 23, 2023
“They’re scared,” says Taylor Sheridan, looking amused as he steps onto his porch and away from a gaggle of publicists huddled inside his house. “They’re scared of what I might say.”With good reason. The Yellowstone showrunner — who’s gone from an ob...
Taylor Sheridan's Fallen World June 01, 2023
The following is a condensed version of "Taylor Sheridan's Fallen World" by Mark Eckel, published at Law & Liberty. Each 21st century Taylor Sheridan hero fights for ideals in reality’s gray landscape. Sicario offers a hard look at the drug trade, qu...
Taylor Sheridan's Fallen World May 22, 2023
It is the streaming series Yellowstone where America sees its reflection, the struggle between good and evil. Sheridan expects America to be answerable for her sins, showing the reverberations of consequence over the nation’s 400 years. At the very s...
'Shrinking' and the Rebirth of Manliness May 01, 2023
Harrison Ford has suddenly returned to acting at the age of 80, after a decade of mostly forgettable cameos. He’s now making movies and even TV series that are bound to get quite a bit of critical attention and renewed popularity. He’s even going bac...
The Race to Build the ‘Yellowstone’ Universe January 10, 2023
FEELY, Mont.—Helen Mirren had her shoes off and her feet propped close to a hissing propane heater. With co-stars Harrison Ford and Timothy Dalton she was huddled in a nook of a hollow building, a film set that looked like a stately stone-and-timber ...
Joyce Carol Oates intellectualizes Yellowstone December 30, 2022
Aneo-Western drama set on a vast ranch in Montana run through with trashy romance plot lines and violent disputes about land and legacy — "who owns the West?" — has made Yellowstone the most-watched TV series in America. The season four finale drew o...
The 15 Best TV Shows of 2022 December 22, 2022
Television has always been a tether—to other people and to ourselves. In 2022, a year of turmoil and uncertainty, TV has provided something even more essential: a lifeline. Some shows reflected the moment’s surreality back to us. Some made us see oth...