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A YELLOWSTONE spinoff in which Kayce Dutton combines his skills as a cowboy and Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana, where he and his teammates must balance family, duty and the high psychological cost that comes with serving as the last line of defense in the region's war on violence.


When I heard about this, I was a little hyped. Another show in the Yellowstone universe that I can get behind. The teaser was just enough to pique my interest a little more, even though it's going to be a CBS show, not a Paramount+ one.

Then, I saw the trailer. Wow.

My interest level dropped to nearly zero after that. It looks like another generic, CBS show like NCIS / FBI / CSI. You have the group of law people, some of whom look like they belong on the cover of Vogue, others who should be on a Fireman's Christmas Calendar, and Luke Grimes being the glue that keeps them all together.

The "action" and dialogue seem generic or worn out. Knowing it's a network show, it already can't be very gritty or violent.

I know I'm assuming a lot from a trailer, but trailers are supposed to be the great, first impression. It really fell flat for me.

I'll still check it out just because, but I'm not going to be as hyped anymore.

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Re: Y: Marshals

If you'd be so kind: https://forum.next-episode.net/viewtopic.php?id=11035

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Re: Y: Marshals

I hope it is more like NCIS and less like Taylor's typical crap -  sexist and stupid

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Tater Tots wrote:

Knowing it's a network show, it already can't be very gritty or violent.

This is what concerns me the most about it.  SEAL Team.  The Unit. and other shows have all fallen because of this.  You can't want to make a gritty show where people swear, die and bleed... then get told by the network and the sponsors "We can't have all that swearing, killing and bleeding."

Tater Tots wrote:

I know I'm assuming a lot from a trailer, but trailers are supposed to be the great

I've seen plenty of sh*t movies that had great trailers because all the good stuff was in the trailer and the rest of the movie was junk.  And the reverse where a show was great but the trailer was junk because they rushed the trailer to market before any of the good stuff was even filmed.

Not a spoiler because its in the trailer: but I'll tag it anyway.

▼Spoiler

Clearly the whiney annoying wife has been killed and that's a big part of his motivation.  I'm good with her being gone. And they can take out her counterpart/twin on Landman as far as I'm concerned.

  I just hope we don't have 70% emotional trauma over it in every episode.  This doesn't need to be the Starfleet: Academy of the Yellowstone franchise.

scushman wrote:

I hope it is more like NCIS and less like Taylor's typical crap -  sexist and stupid

For the reasons above I bet its 50:50.  But its still a Sheridon show so I think you should expect it to lean more that direction.  If you want more NCIS-ish then check out FBI and the new spinoff CIA.

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s01e01
First episodes always have to shoe-horn in a lot.

  • Backstory in case someone didn't watch Yellowstone

  • Update - what has happened since the backstory

  • Character intros

  • Show premise

  • Then after all that... The actual episode story

So, as first episodes go... Not too shabby.  At least good enough to keep watching.  Plenty good enough to go in my rotation with NCIS, Law & Order, FBI.  And maybe a bit more family acceptable for households that wouldn't put Yellowstone on in front of their kids but would put on the Chicago One franchise, NCIS franchise etc.  I think they're trying to walk a very thing gray between the two audiences.

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Man... this is bad. The stories make little to no sense, they constantly re-iterate how awesome they are and they must mention they were seals about every 4 minutes. The way they've dealt with the part between Yellowstone and this show feels easy and cheap. The personal stories of the new cast are meh and predictable. I'm baffled that Sheridan was actually involved in this, this is nowhere near his usual level of writing. The whole thing feels rushed.

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It is Sheridan without all the over used swearing and misogyny I like it better. It is fine for a cbs ncis style show. Not great but low budget. Cinematography is nice.

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To me… Feels like the difference between a paid streamer where you can say 'muthaf**ker' and show people killing and banging etc… and a broadcast show where you have to keep it in the realm of network censor standards.
Mix in walking a line between people that never watched Yellowstone, and devoted fans so how much rehash is too much for devoted and how little is too little for those that don't know 5 years of backstory.

The cross talk between the vets isn't great.  It sounds like it was written by civilians that think they know how vets/special-operators talk.  But honestly the same could be said for every medical show where the doctors all know every rare disease, or the police dramas where every cop also has a law degree.  I don't think this show's failures are unique to this show: Its endemic of all Hollywood

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Sorry, but the latest episode (1 x 11) was simply awful. There was a falling-through-ice scene where it was crystal clear the 'ice' was polystyrene, you could even see the markings on it. Kind of like a high-school play production. Flashbacks from SEAL mission badly realized, the 'Cal' actor acts... well, like a beginner actor and the plot is not interesting. I'm not a hater, but call me disappointed.

If you like series about US Marshals, I can definitely recomment 2 good ones, 'In plain sight' and 'Justified'.

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In Ep 11, did anyone else notice that when they left the cabin at around the 33 minute mark, into the freezing cold...
... there was a thick weatherproof jacket hanging on the wall behind them .. DUMB !!

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s01e11

  • I was okay with the icey pond

  • I was okay with Cal talking like that because he was basically near frozen to death

  • I even liked that when

    ▼Spoiler

    the girls came to rescue them there was no talk, none of that cliche TV cop stuff of 3 warning... Bad guy had a gun on the good guys so just cap him in the head without hesitation.

  • But the dialog between the former SEALs is killing me episode after episode.

Its like a writer watched and loved "Act of Valor" way too much.  And like they have a list of approved phrases and a quota to use them.

  • The approved way to say 'yes' is "ooray senior chief".  There's no "on it"... "you bet"... "got it boss".  There's one phrase for that.

  • They have to say "the sandbox" and/or "down range" at least every 10 minutes.

  • The approved phrase for "no problem" is 'easy day'. Can't ever say 'sure', 'no problem', 'yeah I got this'

They have a list of cliche terms they think is how special operators talk.  Its like listening to my GPS set to "SEAL Team Voice" and hearing the same term for a specific maneauver... "Exit right, and go down range in 800 meters"

I swear the writers scrubbed through "Act of Valor" and the "SEAL Team" series for phrases.

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SgtSaint wrote:

Its like a writer watched and loved "Act of Valor" way too much.  And like they have a list of approved phrases and a quota to use them.

  • The approved way to say 'yes' is "ooray senior chief".  There's no "on it"... "you bet"... "got it boss".  There's one phrase for that.

  • They have to say "the sandbox" and/or "down range" at least every 10 minutes.

  • The approved phrase for "no problem" is 'easy day'. Can't ever say 'sure', 'no problem', 'yeah I got this'

They have a list of cliche terms they think is how special operators talk.  Its like listening to my GPS set to "SEAL Team Voice" and hearing the same term for a specific maneauver... "Exit right, and go down range in 800 meters"

I swear the writers scrubbed through "Act of Valor" and the "SEAL Team" series for phrases.

Too funny and too true.

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