The case for Yellowstone

Now that we are fully into winter, a lot of my activities that I’d enjoy doing outside including camping, having friends over for a fire or playing softball and baseball have all hit the back burner. The weather outside sure is frightful but a new show, maybe just new to me, has me and my wife so delightful.

It’s been a while since I could say I’ve been fully enthralled in a show the way I am with Kevin Costner’s Yellowstone. The show is set in the mountains of Montana and nearly every episode begins with some sort of montage of cowboys working at the foot of the Rocky mountains with the sun just peering over the peak of the a mountain while country music plays.

Now, you’re looking at a guy who doesn’t like country music, a guy who is probably better with a computer than with a tractor, and one who certainly isn’t a fan of horses. However, the way the show portrays working on a ranch makes me want to grab the vacuum cord and try to lasso my way into a wrestling match with a wild deer or something in the woods near my house.

The story keeps you on the edge of your seat. So much so, that I’m glad I’m late to the party and that the show is in its fifth season so I don’t have to wait week after week for the next episode to come out. My parents started watching it before me and I thought to myself, “Ah, that’s just some old western that they would probably like to watch.” Now I’m the guy bragging about watching the show.

The show pits the traditional John Dutton, played by Costner, against a myriad of people looking to take his land and ultimately, destroy his family. The family appears to be a tight-knit group at the beginning but as the series rolls on, you learn that they have gone through things in their past that keep coming to the forefront of their relationships.

I will say, the show is graphic and there is a lot of foul language but if you can get past that, the story line sucks you into a world far from here where the sun is always shining and the views are always immaculate. The show is a sort of king of the hill match between the Duttons with a little big city mob element mixed in. It provides for a situation that might not always resemble real life scenarios but definitely keeps the watcher guessing.

If you don’t think you’d like it, just watch the first episode and then re-evaluate whether you’d like it or not. The episode is more like a movie as it is 1 hour and 30 minutes. It really sets the show up well though so after the first episode, you’ll know if you’ll like the show.

I’ll leave you with this, and this says a lot for me. I’m not one to miss watching the Milwaukee Bucks or Wisconsin Badgers basketball games too often when I have the chance, but this show has me opting to watch Yellowstone instead of those games.

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