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I have seen most of Coles tv work but I have to say when I watched the first Episode of "Yellowstone" and the next few I was so entriged with Rips character and he seemed familiar I had to look up who this handsome dark haired cowboy was and imagined my shock when it said Cole Hauser !!! I was telling myself NO WAY !! Brilliant I tell you JUST brilliant !!!

I don't believe anyone does western films better than Kevin Costner and with Taylor Sheridan writing it is a win win for viewers. Take a look at "Wind River" for an example of what Taylor Sheridan can do. Where has Cole Hauser been hiding? He is amazing. I guess the daughter is a necessary part, but she is over the top at being a bitch. The scenery is fantastic and being from Colorado I can really appreciate the vast beautiful land. Do yourself a favor and get hooked on this series as it is going to be a winner.

This is the type of show where cowboy/western life meets big city mafia life. This show is well cast, the first two episodes have been well written and leaves you wanting more after every episode. Not to mention the Montana and Utah scenery is beautiful.

The Dutton's remind me of the Ewing's from the 70's drama "Dallas". In short Yellowstone is "Dallas" meets "Sopranos".

Yellowstone has easily become one of my favorite shows on tv. It's now going on to season five and every season has been fantastic so far. Almost every episode of every season is excellent and moves the story forward. There are some slow parts and slow episodes but that's not a bad thing. There is plenty of action and drama to keep everyone satisfied. The cast is just about perfect as they all give incredible performances. The cinematography is as good as it gets on tv and shows just how beautiful Montana is. I am completely hooked on this show and one of the few shows I still watch live because I love it that much.

(Review is only for the first two seasons)

I came into this show not expecting to like it but the storyline, acting, and cinematography is superb. Basically it's Mafia Wars in Montana with intermittent giant doses of testosterone (cowboys with guns on horses while fishing)! Costner is a master actor as lead of the Duttons. The show is at its finest when it shows the chessboard moves the Duttons and their enemies engage in.

The show gets gummed early in the second season but starts rolling again midway through. Kelsey Asbille is the weakest link as Monica and plays a poor hand badly, the storyline jettisons awkwardly out and the acting just misses the mark.

I think Cole Hauser as Rip may be the strongest acting (sans Costner himself) and looked forward to all the scenes Rip was in. Thomas Rainwater is great too. The storyline hums and the scenery is beautiful.

Just as Cormac McCarthy's "All The Pretty Horses" was a little more raw and brutal than the title suggests, this show strikes in a similar vein. Highly recommend and wish I didn't wait so long to watch it.

Yellowstone is one of the best shows on tv right now and has been since it first started back in 2018. It's been the #1 show on cable 5 years in a row! It's hard to explain just how good this show really is. The acting, writing, directing, cinematography, production, etc, are all incredible! It's exactly what you expect from a Taylor Sheridan show! Everything he does is fantastic! The acting is some of the best on tv right now. Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Cole Hauser, Kelly Reilly, Kelsey Asbille, Jamie Dutton and pretty much the rest of the entire cast all deserve recognition for the incredible job they do season after season! It's one of the rare shows where almost every episode is just as good as the others. I can not recommend this show enough, just go watch it for yourself.

I've been waiting on this show to premiere and I was more than pleased with the performance with the great set of actors and actresses that seem to bring their A game along. Beautiful cinematography and we'll bred horses what else could a gal ask for?

It is so gorgeous and beautiful to look at and I guess being from Texas, I find it comforting. Obviously Kevin has gotten better with age! Hot Daddy! They scored big time to get Kelly Reilly in this! I still tear up when I think of her character in ""Flight"! She is one powerful actress who really puts her heart out there! I am in love with this show! I don't want to spoil anything so I'll just leave it at this. It is enjoyable to let play in the background or focus on intently. It doesn't try to own you, it just offers you everything to take in as you please.

I thoroughly enjoyed this premier. Mr. Costner is Lt. Dunbar, Wyatt Earp and Charley Waite all in one. I like his character and I enjoy watching his cowboy experience play this role.

I totally appreciate the story line, ruthless at times but I can see John Dutton fiercely protect what he has and wants. The Dutton Family is strong and you can tell they share dad's passion, even in the youngest son.

Yes, it reminded me of Longmire in many ways. I just hope the series is just as good as the premier and that it doesn't drag out and get ruined. I enjoyed Longmire, but the ending left something to be desired for me. Hope the end results are better in this new-era Cowboy show.

Yellowstone is a solidly written drama - great characters, well-crafted - that draws it's tone from a few different modern-day masterpieces.

It has the feel and cinematography of Longmire, the plotting and grim outlook of The Sopranos, and the dramatic dynamics of shows like 'Dynasty' or any of the other network dramas similar to that.

Much respect must go to Costner and Cole Hauser - these guys bring it 100%.

I did not expect to get drawn in to this show like I did. It's well worth your time.

This series was very good in seasons 1 and 2 but the writing has become cliche and unintelligent. I have respect for Taylor Sheridan as a screenwriter but in my humble opinion, his love affair with the show is not what it once was, as evidenced by the decline in the quality of dialogue and story. I have no clue why it's necessary to continue to include the character of Jimmy and his story in the series; it contributes nothing to the overall plot. All of the sex and f-bombs that have been added are 100% unnecessary, all the extra ranch hands that have been added are extraneous and unnecessary. It does not make the show cutting edge or add anything positive, and adding a young boy who talks about his balls and uses the f-bomb every other sentence--actually makes me respect the show even less. It seems forced and dehumanizing. We get it that a ranch is a rough place to live and make a living. We got it from the first episode. Seasons 3 & 4 are just beating a dead horse - pun intended.

Going on the other reviews I was hoping for something akin to The Wire (the systems and machinations of power dynamics, and corruption) and Succession (the excellent character writing, and toxic familial relationships that reverberate throughout the whole of the characters' lives and relationships).

This show provides nothing but soap opera characters and scripts.

Shallow, clichéd, predictable.

Workplace dispute with a colleague? Have a punch-up to the last man standing ... that won't deepen any ill-feelings, will it? Want a child to learn some values? Emotionally mistreat them and encourage them to bottle up their emotions. 🙄🙄🙄

Simplistic, farcical, cringeworthy.

The scenery is breathtaking and the cinematography does a great job of showing it off - 3* for that alone.

I live in Darby, MT where most of this is filmed - just yesterday they filmed right across the street from me in a field with a few horse and cattle. I believe the show is pretty solid story, and in the niche where Costner does his best. One thing I did notice about the first season, given my half Native American side, is it leaves you wondering who the good guys and bad guys are - perhaps both sides are both good and bad.

I will admit it is neat to see them filming while here, the ranch is just down the road from me and I pass nearly daily on the way to fish in the Bitterroot River

One of the best pieces of television I have seen. Among the ranks with the Sopranos, Mad Men, etc.. Costner fans know he has always been fascinated with the west. Dances with Wolves, Open Range, Silverado. Costner doesn't need to make movies or TV shows anymore. He is a great writer. Given the quality writing and cinematography depicted in Yellowstone, Costner is clearly enjoying making this one. Excellent acting across the cast and the fact that most of the actors are not household names, makes the characters more interesting. I would urge anyone who likes smart dramas to watch this series. If you like westerns, you can's miss it.

Kevin Costner is the patriarch presiding over a dynastic ranch that is the size of some countries. His way of life is being impinged on by resort developers, tribal rights, and the authority of the state of Montana. Reminiscent of Rock Hudson in "Giant", he is trying to hold on to the old ways.

"Yellowstone" develops quickly with little introduction, yet its story unravels with the natural pace of a wilderness day, pausing for tribal rituals, cowboy conventionalities, and political machinations. It's a far flung undertaking that dwells on the seams between laws and justice, family and friendships.

Costner fills his character's boots naturally, it seems. He is a world-wearied man who has seen too much and lied too often. The land and the family are his lifeblood. He can hear the footsteps coming his way, but he can only fulfill his role-out of habit as much as loyalty.

Although some action is a little confusing due to lack of explanation, it feels natural, as if the viewer is getting a genuine slice-of-life glimpse into another world. I hope the resolution of this saga includes an emotional payoff that justifies its breadth and its attention to details.

Update 7/20/18: After four episodes, this series has a strong voice and a persistent rhythm. We learn the fullness of each story, from roots to fruits. I am increasing my grade to "9".

'Lolita' is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. Nabokov set out to write a beautiful piece of literature but on a subject that was immoral and deplorable. The reader is thrown into a state of cognitive dissonance. It's great novel but....but.....

'Yellowstone' has a similar effect. Viewers are presented with a stunning aesthetic and seduced by the cowboy myth. But the family at the centre of the story are ultimately corrupt, vile murderers. Yet we are expected to sympathise and cheer them on. It's not unlike another popular series, 'Succession', but on horseback. However, while the family in 'Succession' are more clearly ugly, the Duttons and their entourage are held up as a shining example of America as 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'. It's a terrifically manipulative series.

Show is great. Excellent cast, acting, production and all. Indeed I agree in season 4 and 5 it beggins to slow down a little an less action means more talk. As role/acting, Monica is the only one not keeping up with the rest. But all in all this series is GREAT, addictive and I think people that complain are just those protestings under Summer Higgins in front of the fur coats shop :). May be a little too hard to understand for diehards leftists or as Beth once said, for bearded hippies comming to work on scooters. Some episodes are true masterpieces. I also admire a lot the costumes, and I even watch the lady responsable for that while explaining her choices.

Not only is this one of the best produced, best acted, best written shows in history -- Catherine Fitts even quotes it in her interviews -- but it is also one of the only shows in our new streaming universe that has maintained the quality through four seasons. Your humble reviewer, with over 1700 reviews here, watches a lot of TV. Maybe too much. And, as exciting as the Netflix phenomenon may be, I have tracked literally dozens of shows that ran out of quality writing by the second season. They literally did not have an actual plan to follow in the event of renewal. Many of these shows are still in production, which is even more astonishing. And distressing. Yellowstone, against that backdrop. Is a true wonder. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))

This series has been on since 2018 but now is the first time I have watched any of it. Last night I completed the first episode of the first season, it runs right near 90 minutes. As to introduce the Dutton family we see they have powerful influence in their valley but are fending off "attacks." One from developers who want to put up condos. Another from the neighboring Native reservation looking to get some of their land back plus some livestock. To help deal with all that and the sprawling size of his ranch Dutton (played authentically by 60-something Kevin Costner) has several grown Cowboy sons and a helicopter with a dedicated pilot.

The reason I watched episode one of season one (on Peacock streaming) was to get the feel for the Dutton family because I am currently watching the ten episodes of the more recent Taylor Sheridan program "1883" which is the prequel of sorts. It was (fictionally) in 1883 that the Dutton family from Tennessee joined a larger group to wagon train from Fort Worth Texas to "somewhere in the West". They must have stopped when they reached Montana.

Again it is all fiction but if we look at the ages of the men, and the fact that Costner was born in 1955, his character would probably be the great, great grandson of the Dutton patriarch (played by Tim McGraw) in "1883". E.g. With sons born about 1875, 1900, 1925, and the 1950s.

"Yellowstone" is a really fine series, the actors are all first-rate, the cinematography and sound are excellent. It just ins't the kind of program I could get invested in and continue to watch. It is hard to find characters with redeeming qualities and I really don't long-term enjoy programs which constantly focus on arguments and fights, and often killing. Now in my 70s I prefer to spend time watching "pleasant" stories.

NB - "1883" is a really fine and interesting series, how it authentically depicts the great hardship of pulling up roots and traveling through unknown territories to try to find a new life in a new place.

Seasons 1-3 are great with an interesting plot and action. 4 is just lame. There are a lot of silly useless side characters that need to just die off. It's obvious this show needs to end soon but they're just dragging it out. As others have said it feels like they've abandoned the series for 1883 and trying to hook people on buying another streaming service.

Edit: Beth ruining this show. She's unlikable in every way and so over the top it's ridiculous. No one would listen to a person that insane. I've gotten to the point I just hope someone kills her off.

This show has run dry on ideas and I'm done investing time. None of the characters, save Jimmy, grow or change. It's gone from a modern western to soap opera. To add insult to injury the story now is completely unbelievable, I really think that the duttons are the bad guys in their own show.

I would love to continue watching this series. Love the cast and I'm happy with the plot(s). However, I cannot understand what anyone is saying unless I turn up the volume all the way, then I have problems with the loud music and the loud ads. Can't anything be done to make the sound quality better!!!

Binged both seasons in a few days. Best show I've seen in long time, I pray they keep it going for years to come!