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Ps. Here’s a nice reference to Taylor Sheridan’s world view in an article from American Thinker.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/montana_cowboys_adam_smith_and_president_trump.html

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Well, good detailed summaries of the scenes, but what about a summary of what you think of it over-all Richard?

I like all the Taylor Sheridan series we’ve seen and the sheer volume and range is impressive. We cancelled Amazon Prime a few years ago (after they deleted all my 20+ years of 936 product reviews), and then cancelled Netflix last fall which led us to sign up for Roku and Paramount Plus - which has produced all the Sheridan shows (except Yellowstone perhaps which I haven’t seen any of).

Anyway, no more of the excellent Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer series, but an abundance of Taylor Sheridan… including the Yellowstone prequels 1883 and 1923, and Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King and Lawmen Bass Reeves besides the two others you covered here.

Maybe when you revisit this review you’ll give a summary to tie it all together. I certainly would be hard pressed to! But it does seem the basic themes are respect for hands-on risk taking honest work, zero tolerance for BS and politically correct/woke ideologies and agendas, and a grounding in good old fashioned even chivalrous relations between the sexes (at least chivalrous men interacting with strong, independent and capable women who appreciate them but don't necessarily need them). In other words, he strikes me as an America First kind of guy, but in the Western frontier - just leave me the fuck alone/don’t tread on me - mould.

ps. My wife says she’s heard that Yellowstone supposedly started good but then became more woke, which makes her wonder if Sheridan played a lesser roll as it progressed, considering how anti-woke all the other stuff he’s associated with is.

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