Review: Yellowstone | Beyond Cowboys: Power, Politics, and an Explosive Family Drama [ENG-ESP]

@jessuses1381 · 2025-08-08 10:16 · Movies & TV Shows
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Hello everyone, dear Movies and TV Shows community, I hope you're all well, as you can see, this time I'm here to give you my honest opinion of a series, and well, my people, make yourselves comfortable, bring yourselves a coffee, because today we're going to talk about Yellowstone... and seriously, where the hell have I been all this time? I know, I know, the series is YEARS old and everyone was talking about it, but I just got around to watching it and... wow! Seriously... wow, I just binged everything there is available and I'm still sort of processing it all, my head racing... First of all, have any of you seen it yet? Or are you thinking about getting into it? Because, honestly, the hype does have its reason to be, at least for a good part of it, I had heard little things, I saw it mentioned everywhere, I even saw some sports commentators discussing it live once... to give you an idea of ​​how HUGE this series became, especially over there in the United States, from what I read, it became the most-watched series over there, with some crazy numbers!, like 12 million people watching the season premieres... and its rating on IMDb is very respectable... so, when I started, I said, 'okay, this has to be good, right?' The plot goes more or less like this: it focuses on the Dutton family, led by the patriarch, John Dutton - played by Kevin Costner, who kills it in that role, seriously! He even won a Golden Globe for it, well deserved! They own this ridiculously HUGE ranch in Montana, crazy big! The largest in the US they say, the whole show is basically about their constant and pretty brutal fight to keep that land… it’s been in their family for generations, and literally everyone wants a piece of it… we’re talking real estate developers, corporations with tons of money, the neighboring Native American reservation which is led by a super cool chief with his own stories and legitimate grievances, even those pesky Californians who keep moving in… it’s a non-stop pressure, from all sides! >Hola a todos, querida comunidad de Movies and TV Shows, espero que estén bien, cómo verán, en esta ocasión les vengo a dar mi honesta opinión de una serie, y bueno, mi gente, pónganse cómodos, tráiganse un cafecito, porque hoy hablaremos de Yellowstone.. y en serio, ¿dónde carajos he estado metido todo este tiempo? Ya sé, ya sé, la serie tiene AÑOS y todo el mundo hablaba de ella, pero apenas me animé a verla y... ¡wow! en serio... wow, me acabo de echar todo lo que está disponible y todavía ando como procesando todo, con la cabeza a mil.. Primero que nada, ¿alguno de ustedes ya la vio? ¿O andan pensando en entrarle? Porque, honestamente, el hype sí tiene su razón de ser, por lo menos durante una buena parte, yo había escuchado cositas, la veía mencionada por todos lados, hasta vi a unos comentaristas deportivos discutiéndola en vivo una vez.. para que se den una idea de lo GIGANTE que se volvió esta serie, sobre todo allá en Estados Unidos, por lo que leí, llegó a ser la serie más vista por allá, con unos números ¡de locos!, tipo 12 millones de personas viendo los estrenos de temporada.. y su calificación en IMDb es muy respetable.. así que, cuando empecé, dije, ‘okey, esto tiene que estar bueno, ¿no?’.
La onda va más o menos así: se centra en la familia Dutton, liderada por el patriarca, John Dutton – interpretado por Kevin Costner, que la rompe en ese papel, ¡en serio!, hasta se llevó un Globo de Oro por eso, ¡merecidísimo! Son dueños de un rancho exageradamente GIGANTE en Montana, que locura de tamaño!, el más grande de Estados Unidos, según dicen, toda la serie es básicamente sobre su lucha constante y bien brutal por no perder esa tierra.. ha sido de su familia por generaciones, y literal, todo el mundo quiere un pedazo.. estamos hablando de desarrolladores inmobiliarios, corporaciones con un montón de plata, la reserva indígena vecina que está liderada por un jefe súper interesante con sus propias historias y reclamos legítimos, y hasta los californianos fastidiosos que se mudan para allá.. es una presión que no para, ¡por todos lados! --- ![ynSOcgDLZfdLCZfRSYZGiTgYJVo.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/jessuses1381/23wMQ8b8s4HU4n3JuMqY9JycfMYay1xmYU1a4GfGXKaanrHDUH4gavH2DNZbiPM5VCCgB.jpg) [Image Source](https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/73586-yellowstone/images/backdrops) --- But the problems don’t just come from the outside, no way! The drama within the family is just as intense, or maybe even more so. John Dutton has children… well, he had four… the oldest, Lee, seemed like the most like him but… well, let’s just say he doesn’t last long in the story, then there’s Jamie, the lawyer son, super intelligent but what a complicated guy!, always caught between what he wants for himself and loyalty to the family… and THEN there’s Beth. Phew, Beth Dutton, played by Kelly Reilly, is a force of nature, a tough, brilliant, no-nonsense businesswoman who comes back to help her dad fight for the ranch. And Casey, the youngest son, an ex-Navy SEAL who’s trying to balance his own family with the hustle and bustle of the ranch… the dynamic between all of them, especially John with his children, and that explosive argument between Beth and Jamie… is pure fire! Seriously, the story between them is murky, dark, and their first encounters are some of the most tense scenes in the series... that's what hooked me, I think. They sell it as a western, and yes, the Montana landscapes are spectacular! Beautiful... the mountains, the plains, they make you want to pack up everything and go there, the whole cowboy lifestyle, the horses, the cattle herding... things that I thought would bore me but not at all, they make it seem incredibly cool and even attractive, who would have thought! But it's much more than a simple western... I would describe it as a "western soap opera", like a good soap opera but with cowboys, it has that addictive thing of "Oh my God, what's going to happen now?!" There are twists and turns in almost every episode, betrayals, tests of loyalty, violence that can be quite graphic, and then boom! Moments that leave you breathless. It feels like The Sopranos or Succession, but on a ranch. They operate by their own rules, bend and break laws, and do whatever it takes to protect what’s theirs. Nothing is off the table! My girlfriend and I were so close! The first season was… okay? a little slow maybe, just finding its rhythm. But the second and third… wow, incredible. There was one day, I swear, we spent like half a day just winding up. You finish an episode, look at the clock – it’s like 1 in the morning – and you know you should go to sleep, but you just look over at your partner and they’re like, “…one more, huh?” Before you know it, it’s already dawn and you’re trying to see if you can get another one in before real life calls. >Pero los problemas no vienen solo de afuera, ¡qué va! El drama dentro de la familia es igual de intenso, o capaz hasta más, John Dutton tiene hijos… bueno, tenía cuatro.. el mayor, Lee, parecía como el más parecido a él pero… bueno, digamos que no dura mucho en la historia, luego está Jamie, el hijo abogado, súper inteligente pero ¡qué complicado el tipo!, siempre atrapado entre lo que quiere para él y la lealtad a la familia.. y LUEGO está Beth. ¡Ufff, Beth Dutton, la interpreta Kelly Reilly y es.. una fuerza de la naturaleza, una mujer de negocios ruda, brillante, que no se anda con cuentos y que vuelve para ayudar a su papá a pelear por el rancho.
Y Casey, el hijo menor, un ex-Navy SEAL que anda viendo cómo balancea su propia familia con el jale del rancho.. la dinámica entre todos ellos, especialmente John con sus hijos, y ese pique ¡explosivo! entre Beth y Jamie… ¡es pura candela! En serio, la historia entre ellos es turbia, oscura, y sus primeros encontronazos son de las escenas más ¡tensas! de la serie.. eso fue lo que me enganchó, creo. Te la venden como un western, y sí, los paisajes de Montana son ¡espectaculares!, una belleza… las montañas, las llanuras, te dan unas ganas de empacar todo e irte para allá, todo ese estilo de vida cowboy, los caballos, arrear ganado… cosas que yo pensé que me iban a aburrir y para nada, lo hacen ver increíblemente cool y hasta atractivo, ¡quién diría! Pero es mucho más que un simple western.. la describiría como una “telenovela western”, como un culebrón de los buenos pero con vaqueros, tiene esa cosa adictiva de “¡Dios mío, qué va a pasar ahora?!”.
Hay giros y vueltas casi en cada capítulo, traiciones, pruebas de lealtad, violencia que puede ser bastante gráfica y de repente ¡pum!, momentos que te dejan sin aliento, se siente como Los Soprano o Succession pero en un rancho.. operan bajo sus propias reglas, doblan y rompen leyes, y hacen lo que sea necesario para proteger lo suyo.. nada está fuera de la mesa! Mi novia y yo quedamos ¡pegadísimos! La primera temporada estuvo… ¿okey?un poquito lenta quizás, como encontrando su ritmo. Pero la segunda, y tercera.. wow, increíble.. hubo un día, se los juro, que nos echamos como medio día puro vientdo.. y es que terminas un episodio, ves el reloj – es como la 1 de la mañana – y sabes que deberías irte a dormir, pero nomás te volteas a ver con tu pareja y dicen “… ¿uno más, no?”.. cuando te das cuenta, ya está amaneciendo y estás viendo si te echas otro antes de que la vida real te llame. --- ![x1Oom04u2dwa8Jv3U4bBXu5OFW4.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/jessuses1381/23ydANepnouK4D3hjCVc8CEm4xkYXfTHBpQbHi2orNZSXMomV5P1qnmukcRbo5QxKLPmW.jpg) [Image Source](https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/73586-yellowstone/season/1/episode/2/images/backdrops) --- Okay, so a big part of why you get hooked on this show, at least for me, was Rip Wheeler and Beth Dutton... I mean, Rip, the ranch foreman, loyal to John Dutton to the death, a tough guy... and his vibe with Beth is... the best, they're my favorites, super intense, complicated, loyal to each other in their own twisted way... they just crack up on screen! But really, the whole cast is incredible, right? Costner's like the mainstay, obviously, but Kelly Reilly as Beth, Cole Hauser as Rip, Luke Grimes as Casey, Wes Bentley as Jamie... even characters like Lloyd, the ranch veteran! They all add their own special touch, and the show also delves into some interesting themes, you know? like the whole American Western vibe: freedom, being yourself, that toughness, fighting for what’s yours… but it also touches on the clash between the old and the new, caring for the land or building more, political moves, family legacy, betrayal, loyalty… it gets into a lot of things, and for a while they did it really well, without it seeming like they were lecturing you or that it was boring. Buuuut… and this is where things get weird, and maybe that’s why I was hesitant to get into it before… it seems like it didn’t always maintain that high level, for me, around the third season, going into the fourth, the quality kind of started to go down, the writing, which was so good, so powerful, started to feel… I don’t know, weird? Repetitive? Even weak, I would say... that heavy fight between Beth and Jamie that I was telling you... at first it was captivating, it came from real pain, but four seasons later, it's the same round of threats and backstabbing over and over again, and the truth is, it's started to tire me out a little. Like, okay, okay, they hate each other, we get it! Can we continue with something else? and other characters seemed to go around in circles or the plot mistreated them just to create drama, there's a character, Monica, Casey's wife, who basically something horrible happens to her every blessed season, some trauma, depression... After a while it felt like too much, you know? honestly, people on the internet say that she fast-forwards her scenes, and now I kind of understand them a little... that also dragged Casey's character down. Even Beth and Rip, when they were more relaxed as a couple, lost a bit of that dangerous spark that made them so great. Then, it seemed, the writers liked Beth so much that... they started making copies? Suddenly, other super-capable, sharp-tongued women appeared who felt like "lite" versions of Beth, whose only differences were their hair color or which "team" they played for... it felt like they took the easy way out, really. >Okay, gran parte de por qué te enganchas con esta serie, al menos para mí, fueron Rip Wheeler y Beth Dutton.. o sea, Rip, el capataz del rancho, leal a John Dutton a morir, un tipo durísimo... y su onda con Beth es.. lo máximo, son mis favoritos, super intensos, complicados, leales el uno al otro a su manera medio retorcida.. es que sacan chispas en pantalla! Pero, la verdad, todo el elenco es increíble, ¿eh? Costner es como el pilar, obvio, pero Kelly Reilly como Beth, Cole Hauser como Rip, Luke Grimes como Casey, Wes Bentley como Jamie... ¡hasta personajes como Lloyd, el veterano del rancho! Todos le ponen su toque especial, la serie también se mete con temas interesantes, ¿sabes? como toda esa onda del Oeste gringo: la libertad, ser tú mismo, esa rudeza, pelear por lo tuyo.. pero también toca el choque entre lo viejo y lo nuevo, cuidar la tierra o construir más, las movidas políticas, el legado familiar, traición, lealtad.. le entra a un montón de cosas, y por un buen rato lo hicieron súper bien, sin que pareciera que te estaban dando una clase o que fuera aburrido.
Peeero... y aquí es donde la cosa se pone rara, y quizá por eso yo dudaba en entrarle antes... como que no mantuvo ese nivelazo siempre, para mí, por ahí después de la tercera temporada, entrando a la cuarta, la calidad como que empezó a bajar, la escritura, que era tan buena, tan potente, se empezó a sentir... no sé, ¿rara? ¿Repetitiva? Hasta floja, te diría.. esa pelea tan heavy entre Beth y Jamie que les decía... al principio era atrapante, venía de un dolor real, pero cuatro temporadas después, es la misma vuelta de amenazas y puñaladas por la espalda una y otra vez, y la verdad, ya me empezó a cansar un poco. Como que, ¡ya, ok, se odian, lo entendimos! ¿Podemos seguir con otra cosa? y otros personajes como que daban vueltas en lo mismo o la trama los maltrataba solo para meter drama, hay un personaje, Monica, la esposa de Casey, que básicamente cada bendita temporada le pasa algo horrible, algún trauma, depresión...
Ya después de un tiempo se sentía como mucho, ¿sabes? la verdad, la gente en internet dice que adelanta sus escenas, y ahora como que los entiendo un poco.. eso también arrastraba al personaje de Casey. Incluso Beth y Rip, cuando ya estaban más tranquilos como pareja, perdieron un poco de esa chispa peligrosa que los hacía tan geniales, luego, como que a los guionistas les gustó tanto Beth que... ¿empezaron a hacer copias? De repente salían otras mujeres súper capaces y con lengua filosa que se sentían como versiones 'light' de Beth, que solo cambiaban por el color de pelo o para qué 'equipo' jugaban.. se sintió como que tomaron el camino fácil, la verdad. --- ![udWPOttHADK8HlZ6fwbqjdavwhW.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/jessuses1381/23w2oKgXk9bDTdSt4kd1jFK8Wbuhv7jLnbzjGCTdnCQf2eznLFUt3fczMvJBjwukpZD8Z.jpg) [Image Source](https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/73586-yellowstone/season/1/episode/4/images/backdrops) --- Well, the main story, the plot itself, also kind of started to get stretched out a bit too much, you know? At first, the first few seasons, you had super-clear villains you could believe, the guys they wanted to build up, Chief Rainwater, the Beck brothers, who were actually scary! But later on, things felt less focused. Season 4 really kicked off after that crazy ending in Season 3, but then it kind of started to digress. It felt like that central "us against the world" struggle was lost a bit, that vibe that made the first seasons so exciting, and Season 5, well, the first part at least, felt even more like a slow-burn political drama, kind of like a family soap opera, and with the same threat from that corporation that's been nagging us since Season 3... seems like people noticed, huh? They say the ratings went through the floor in that first half... it went from being one of those nail-biting shows to having, I don't know, 10 or 15 minutes of something really good in each hour-long episode, and the rest was just so-so. On top of that, add in all the behind-the-scenes nonsense now, like Kevin Costner is leaving or already left before the final episodes, or maybe there's a beef with the creator, Taylor Sheridan... Sheridan, by the way, is the one who created the show and, watch out!, it seems like since season 3 he started writing all the episodes himself... if you look at the list of other things he has in the works - like other shows and movies, the spin-offs like 1883 and 1923 (which I haven't seen, but they say they're good) - he took on too much at once... maybe Yellowstone, the main series, the original, started to pay the price for that. So, after all this, what's my final verdict? Is Yellowstone worth watching or not? Look, despite the drop in standards in recent seasons and all the off-camera noise... I still think so, especially, especially!, the first three seasons... it's really good television - it hooks you in, it's spectacularly filmed, the acting is top-notch, with characters you'll love, hate, and root for, sometimes all at the same time, it's like an epic saga, kind of chaotic, violent, and even has its weird romantic touch. The thing is... it's infuriating, you know? It's frustrating! Because it was SO good, I'd easily give it a 9 or 9.5 out of 10 at the beginning... but that drop in the quality of the writing in the later seasons lowers the rating, overall, I think I'd stick with an 8/10. It's still better than a lot of stuff out there, and the good moments it had were great... you just have to be mentally prepared for the fact that towards the end it loses a bit of steam, it slows down a bit... and well, that would be all for today, we'll see you soon... take care of yourselves, bye! >Y bueno, la historia principal, la trama como tal, también como que la empezaron a estirar de más, ¿saben? Al principio, las primeras temporadas, tenías villanos súper claros y que te creías, los tipos que querían construir, el Jefe Rainwater, ¡los hermanos Beck que sí daban miedo de verdad! Pero ya después, como que la cosa se sintió menos centrada, la temporada 4 arrancó con todo después de ese final de locos de la 3, pero luego como que se puso a divagar. Como que se perdió un poco esa lucha central de "nosotros contra el mundo", esa vibra que hacía que las primeras temporadas fueran tan emocionantes, y la temporada 5, bueno, la primera parte al menos, se sintió todavía más como un drama político a fuego lento, medio telenovela familiar, y con la misma amenaza de la empresa esa que viene dando lata desde la temporada 3.. parece que la gente se dio cuenta, ¿eh?
Dicen que los ratings se fueron al piso en esa primera mitad.. pasó de ser de esas series que te comes las uñas a tener, qué sé yo, 10 o 15 minutos de algo realmente bueno en cada capítulo de una hora, el resto, meh. Encima, súmale todo el rollo que hay detrás de cámaras ahora, que si Kevin Costner se va o ya se fue antes de los últimos capítulos, que si hay bronca con el creador, Taylor Sheridan
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