And Kayce (Luke Grimes), the ex-Navy Seal now married to a pretty young Native-American teacher who lives on the rez with her and his son. There's Jamie (Wes Bentley), the be-suited lawyer and maybe-politician who spends a lot of his time in Helena arguing against the Dutton Ranch being annexed through public domain. The episode continues as we meet each of the Dutton children in turn.
This isn't a complaint exactly, because Yellowstone isn't a comedy by any means. There are, of course, Beth's withering insults to brothers and prospective lovers, but they're less funny than shattering. In fact, I'm not sure if I've ever seen a more humorless hour and forty-five minutes of television, not that that's necessarily a bad thing - it's not like Sicario was a barrel of laughs, either. It's a scene that sets the tone for the rest of the premiere: weighty, slightly lurid, and as serious as a funeral. "You deserved better than this," Dutton says.
The horse has been grievously injured, and Costner's Dutton growls some portentous lines to it before putting the barrel of his revolver under the animal's chin and pulling the trigger. The hand is reaching out to comfort a panicked horse, injured in a nasty collision with a semi-truck carrying construction equipment. And the very first image of Yellowstone is of Kevin Costner's hand entering the frame against a turquoise blue sky, the Big Sky of which we are so justifiably proud.
But for anyone who lives in Montana, Yellowstone's version of Montana is slightly distorted, as in a dream.īut let's start at the beginning. Which means lots of reference to Montana locations, and plenty of scenes taking place in Bozeman and Helena, if not always necessarily filmed there. Sicario and Hell or High Water took place in and out of Texas and Mexico, and his mournful neo-noir Wind River in Wyoming, but Yellowstone concerns a ranch right here in Montana, or more specifically, the Paradise Valley. Yellowstone swims in similar waters, with another hard-bitten tale of life on the borderlands. In fact, I'm a huge fan of some of creator, writer and sometimes director Taylor Sheridan's previous work, especially the singularly grim Sicario, and the modern-day western crime drama Hell or High Water. Call it a "Yellowstone" rewatch - if you've a mind to join me, you're welcome to come along. And maybe I'd better start with season one, episode one and write something about each one. And, seeing as how it's a show about Montana, and now one filmed entirely in Montana, I figure I'd better start watching. Like many Montanans my age, I grew up watching Kevin Costner ride a horse, mostly in Dances With Wolves, which remains one of the best Westerns ever made, but also to a lesser extent Open Range and even The Postman, which saw Costner's horse-riding temporally relocated to the post-apocalyptic future.īut, I have never seen Yellowstone, Paramount Networks prestige drama that sees Costner back in the saddle.
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