![]() ![]() There’s golden boy Jamie (Wes Bentley), a lawyer gravitating towards politics even as he can feel the unethical stink sticking to his clothes. ![]() Regrettably, he can’t put his varyingly feckless adult children out of their respective miseries so easily. Kevin Costner leads the charge of Great Plains grimacing as patriarch John (and earning a whopping $500,000 per episode), immediately established as the morally compromised protector by an introduction forcing him through the tired cowboy trope of mercy-killing a horse. We’re supposed to cast our lot with the Dutton family, but the show’s chief issue of faulty character sketching wreaks the most damage on the home front. The viewer may very well find himself rooting for the local native faction and their plan to buy back the property rightfully theirs, using the white man’s casino losses against him. Of course the oil barons would love the get their grubby little paws on it, and the adjacent townships dying of stagnation because their populations can’t expand outward win a bit more sympathy. The bloated 91-minute pilot introduces the assorted factions jockeying for control of the Dutton ranch, some more nobly intended than others. Credit where it’s due, the nugget at the core of the Yellowstone pitch is all gold: even in the richest nation on the planet, land is the one thing we can’t manufacture enough of, landing the Dutton family and their untold thousands of acres in a constant battle for preservation.
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