As “Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan’s TV empire grows, his original hit is spinning its wheels with a premiere that, frustratingly, revisits the same old themes and tropes, writes Nick Schager.
Despite such expansion, however, Sheridan’s biggest hit largely spun its wheels last year, spending 10 episodes on a variety of storylines that could have easily been handled in five, and taking only baby steps in a new direction.
John wears a cowboy hat but he’s less Gary Cooper than Tony Soprano, and in many respects, the season premiere ofkeeps casting him in prototypical contemporary-Republican terms, with John promising an insular, America First-esque governance approach that punishes outsiders and upholds the old ways—even through legally questionable means. Sheridan’s series has always hinged on us-vs-them conflict.
Kayce hasn’t had an original thing to do in at least two seasons, and that remains true here; after dealing with some cattle thieves , he’s once more asked to race to rescue wife Monica , whose pregnancy grants the show a cheap opportunity for melodramatic suspense.Kayce isn’t the only one going through familiar motions. Jamie covets the spotlight and fumes that he’s not in the center of it, thereby making him an inevitable pawn to be exploited by Warner.
As with everyone else, the series has no novel ideas about how to further develop Beth—an impression bolstered by the fact that the premiere wastes energy rewinding to Beth and Rip’s first, contentious date as teenagers. That flashback only confirms that the two were no different then than they are now , and affords Sheridan the chance to have adult Rip announce that Beth’s intellect is only matched by her heart.
Sheridan now prizes stasis over maturation to an enervating degree, and he has John overtly articulate as much during a reunion with Beth and Rip’s surrogate son Carter , who’s become a teenager since John last saw him—a change that’s amusingly addressed by the show when John exclaims, “Jesus Christ it’s been a while!” John’s subsequent demand that Carter stop getting bigger because “it freaks me out” is meant to be another example of the newly elected governor’s fear of death and obsolescence.
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