Trying to give Yellowstone another try

I can't watch it either. I tried to watch the 1st season. There is just too much violence and sadness. I think there were a lot of animals hurt in the 1st season too? wasn't there? horses, etc. I can't remember..but it totally turned me off. My family all love it though. I'm ok with not watching it. Funny thing. I had no problems watching GOTs, or house of Dragons, and they have those same aspects.

I watch it, but really don’t like it. I like it when I can watch a show with DH, so I continue. I missed most of the first season but have watched all episodes after that.
I did notice that the past 2 episodes had more horses and scenery than usual. DH was bored, but I actually enjoyed it.

Plenty of our friends love the show but DH and I didn’t watch past the first season. It was so over the top and not in a good, fun or campy way.

I haven’t started it but keep hearing it’s so good. This isn’t making me want to give it a try. I have season 5 on the DVR since it isn’t on streaming so maybe I should give it and try and if I don’t like I will just dump them. I have heard that the 1800 one is better.

I liked 1883 and 1923 more than Yellowstone. I agree about the violence, which often seems gratuitous, and a couple of the characters seem like caricatures of themselves — just too exaggerated. I was watching but recently have skipped it.

DH & I tried. We just could not get past some of the absolute ridiculous 'ranching' practices. Granted, we don't ranch on a big spread in Montana, and we are farmer/ranchers - so that's a whole 'nother ball of wax. BUT - oh lord! I think it was the first episode, and they stopped to 'rescue' a calf being born. They jumped the fence, yanked the calf out by hand and the calf jumped up and sprinted away. WTF - that's not how it works. AT ALL. I laughed and told DH to rewind it, because it looked like a week old calf and possibly was born with the ear tag (not, but yea...ridiculous)

And the violence. I just don't care for it.

Writers need to tune into Dr Pol!

I didn't watch "Yellowstone" until this past summer. We can watch it because nothing else is on, but I really had to ask my Mom (who loves it) if I was missing something. It's basically Soprano's on a ranch, IMO. She said I hadn't missed anything and that's exactly why it was "so good". /shrug

Man DH and I just binged the whole series over the holidays - and just finished episode 7 from the newest season. The killing to get their way has been a bit insane. Beth is hot and cold for me - sometimes I love her and then she does something that sends me in the opposite direction.

The flashbacks are interesting - I love seeing how they all got to be who they are. Jamie is a giant weenie and needs to go away. I’d hate him too if I were Beth.

For the most part we’ve enjoyed it.

I love it, but its not for everyone. I like 1883 and 1923 even more. I like Kevin Costner, Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. The scenery in all of them is spectacular.

I don't like it personally but dh loves it - he is obsessed lol. It is just too much for me.

There is certainly lots of eye candy in the show which makes watching all the violence a little bit easier. I enjoy the show and take the violence and language as part of the deal. The writing is fantastic and the lines that come out of Beth and John’s mouths are often hilarious. The scenery and horses are beautiful. Although the story lines are sometimes far fetched, it is entertaining and I look forward to each new episode. 

DH loves its - I will watch with him if I'm not doing anything else. If I was choosing what to watch I would skip it. I have a hard time with the awful people and the violence as well. I did see the first episode of 1923 - that looked good.