The show is vgood at keeping interest
and the visual impact is extraordinary.
There is a lot of room for "things to happen".
However:
The characters are very flawed and not very appealing. It is hard to find anything appreciably admirable in any of the characters. Greed, power, cruelty, duplicity, corruption, and megalomania seem to rule the day.
The people depicted in the show are...well.... convincing in their deficits and excesses, and demonstrate the sickness that ties of blood (family) can produce.
The most disturbing fact is that the characters in Yellowstone are quite believable ...they seem every bit as insane as the caricatured cast of "Dallas" (old evening soap opera), without the parody, hyperbole and humor of that old show. We "knew" the Dallas characters were a parody of themselves.
The Yellowstone characters, on the other hand, are not exaggerations, they are not parodies, they are not hyperbolic, they are, in fact, "dead" serious.
A story well told, but not one that allows any feeling of goodness or redemption, or even hope, to surface in the face of the ugly qualities on display from nearly every corner of the screen. Maybe my misgivings are that it is all a bit too real, too raw, and too contemporary.
All this does not make it a bad work, just not an easy watch.
There is a lot of room for "things to happen".
However:
The characters are very flawed and not very appealing. It is hard to find anything appreciably admirable in any of the characters. Greed, power, cruelty, duplicity, corruption, and megalomania seem to rule the day.
The people depicted in the show are...well.... convincing in their deficits and excesses, and demonstrate the sickness that ties of blood (family) can produce.
The most disturbing fact is that the characters in Yellowstone are quite believable ...they seem every bit as insane as the caricatured cast of "Dallas" (old evening soap opera), without the parody, hyperbole and humor of that old show. We "knew" the Dallas characters were a parody of themselves.
The Yellowstone characters, on the other hand, are not exaggerations, they are not parodies, they are not hyperbolic, they are, in fact, "dead" serious.
A story well told, but not one that allows any feeling of goodness or redemption, or even hope, to surface in the face of the ugly qualities on display from nearly every corner of the screen. Maybe my misgivings are that it is all a bit too real, too raw, and too contemporary.
All this does not make it a bad work, just not an easy watch.