Sheridan and Perry tap into the saccharin and sickly tropes that feed their respective audiences, reinforcing those dated and pathological narratives.
I see it
It's like if Clint Eastwood was many decades younger and was handed the keys to Paramount Plus.
And yes, I've watched all of Lioness and Landman. I stopped myself during Tulsa King, don't plan on watching Yellowstone, but I'm tempted to start Mayor of Kingstown.
Yeah, I stopped watching it because the sexism got to me, even more than the shilling for the oil industry. Whole show is a “when-men-were-men” fantasy and it makes me sick.
Yes! His female characters are generally sex objects or stereotypes. Nicole Kidman in Lioness is an exception. But someone of her chops would most likely refuse to play a bad role.
Jesse Armstrong was at least aware that the Roys were terrible people, but could make them sympathetic and compelling. Taylor Sheridan seems to think the Duttons are the good guys and in the right and not truly horrible people. I’d take the Roys any day over the Duttons.
Lioness is crazy. Straight up propaganda. America can violate the sovereignty of other nations and murder people because America. Booyah! They used the phrase "open borders" about America maybe half a dozen times in the last episode to justify murdering people in Iran. Totally nuts.
I was unclear in my agreement. I’m sorry. I thought I was agreeing that the addition of torture being treated by the show as “not a big deal” to its characters supported the propaganda thesis. I was not correcting or disagreeing, but supporting. Or at least trying to.
I think his interpretation of power is interesting in most of his work. He’ll go between straight propaganda then almost critique the fact that maintaining empire and immense power requires extreme violence. He also addresses the indoctrination needed for it.
I stopped watching after the scene in I think the first maybe second episode where she locks the door and forces the recruit to strip naked for her and that was portrayed as the right thing to do.
I rate him higher because it’s diabolical propaganda. With Lioness it’s the egalitarian gender and multiracial sugarcoating of the propaganda that gets me.
I don’t watch any of his stuff but my friend is always like “he just has a huge budget but the writing is terrible and he gets away with it!” When talking about Yellowstone
When we watch his shows, and for some reason we do, before the Tractor Supply ads come on, I usually fling one of my stilettos at the screen while girlishly tossing my tousled locks and showing my cleavage.
He does weave in his plots favorite conservative tropes--problems with wind farms (Landman) and suggesting most immigrants coming illegally are terrorists or human traffickers (Lioness)
It’s odd Sheridan gets credit for gritty realism in movies like Sicario. I watched a retired Delta Force operator absolutely shred scenes from that movie for how bad the tactics were by the soldiers portrayed.
And yet Villeneuve’s direction and Jóhann Jóhannsson’s score make it watchable.
That scene in Y’stone where he herded that single calf back and forth as his gf’s explanation of his hotness was too much for me. No, Taylor, you will not force us to see you as a sex symbol.
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I see it
And yes, I've watched all of Lioness and Landman. I stopped myself during Tulsa King, don't plan on watching Yellowstone, but I'm tempted to start Mayor of Kingstown.
I’m STILL waiting on S2 of “1923,” and how long did it take for him to decide to finish part B of S5 of “Yellowstone?”
I almost didn’t get involved in “Landman” because I was afraid we wouldn’t get closure. We may still not.
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And yet Villeneuve’s direction and Jóhann Jóhannsson’s score make it watchable.
You’re not Kevin Costner.