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Topic: Y: Marshals

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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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Re: Y: Marshals

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.