Grass on the Streets and Weeds on the Rooftops

My friend Carmel loves this show. She's always waiting for the new season and she's even creating iCal events so she won't miss any of the episodes. Well, I on the other hand watch it casually and I have developed a love-hate relationship with it. Like all popular family dramas Yellowstone feeds of itself constantly by exaggerating so much that it holds the viewer accountable but at the same time on the brink of madness. You choose to watch Yellowstone so you as a viewer come with your long list. Yellowstone will cater for your needs. Do you want to watch more John Dutton philosophies? Do you want to see Beth being a total agro-lunatic? Do you want to weave some environmental issues? How bout we show you some rodeo things too? And what if we show you how big corporations want to destroy beautiful Montana? Want to see scars from the past, go do Casey's thing. And whatever these Yellowstone characters do, they do it because they either love (or hate) their family, the Duttons, or because they belong to the Duttons, the cowboys. Something so hyperbolic as the script of Yellowstone can only sustain itself with more hyperbole. It's pretty ironic how in all this madness all the side stories (Billy, Jamie's dad, Carter, the cowboys feud) is totally unimportant. It's a shame that they had the great Jacki Weaver but only used her as a possible Beth nemesis with little to no effect. What a waste!

I really like this show, im hooked, but why do I feel like nothing's really moved forward from the first episodes? What I specifically mean is the character arcs. It's getting really boring seeing Jamie being the punching bad of this show, Beth being the chaotic tornado that wrecks everything and then goes "oh sowy *tear eyed emoji*" and all is forgiven, Kayce straight up going away for a subplot that, again, will go nowhere with "the heir" thing that I thought was set up for him from the get go, and John just... I don't know. When I first started watching I thought this show filled a space that Succession left when it ended, but that show really had the feeling that no matter what happened there was an end goal, with character development and growth. This show, I don't know where it's going.

I think it ultimately boils down to the fact that the guy with the best arc of the whole show... is Jimmy, and what does that say about our main characters?

....is only another disappointment. There is nothing at the end of this season that makes me wish season 5 was coming soon. Not like last season did. Not even close. It was a lackluster season that reflected a half hearted effort from the writers.

I do look forward to the 6666 spinoff and the 1883 spinoff. Which, I can only surmise, was the intention of the writers for this entire ten episode let down.

Oh well. Nothing good lasts forever. Yellowstone was good. Damn good. Now? Not so much.

Love me some Yellowstone and was excited for the direction of the series and was pumped after the first episode and then.... It just got worse and made less sense- wtf is this Kayce subplot and the name of the episode is based on the protestor plotline, which can go away and take Kayce's wife with it.

Was jumbled and the final episode was predictable and didn't really have me "wanting" season 5 to start. It's sad when the Jimmy storyline was the most interesting - and can Beth get off the whole Jamie destroyed my life - didn't she ask for his help and you are telling me she had no idea what they were doing?? Just seems too forced and overdramatic at this point.

Hopefully they turn things around.

We were all in on this show for 3 seasons. Last season's finale was awesome. Then this season they just gave up. They completely abandoned the main plot and chased stupid rabbits. Why does John care about a hippy protester? It makes no sense. Then there's Kacey and the wolf; absolutely the dumbest thing this show has ever done! I give the first three season a 9. I give this season a 5.