TV Ratings: 'Yellowstone' Finale Delivers Largest Scripted Cable Viewership of 2020...

[PoiBoy]

A great show... beautiful scenery and an outstanding cast...

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/yellowstone-season-3-finale-viewers-paramount-network-1234746959/

[hlthe2b]

1. It is a great show on an almost unknown network, but this doesn't surprise me.

Taking nothing away from it or its success, has there been any REAL competition in the past 8 months?

[Budi]

2. Epic level story-telling talent of Kevin Costner.

I would not have survived the siege of COVID-19 without the anticipation of this Sunday night series.

Yellowstone's storyline left the viewer with scant time to critique or become bored, as the next page, the next chapter was coming straight at you.

Classic Costner, and every actor on the show was tailor made to the character they became every Sunday night.

Outstanding...

[2naSalit]

3. Ha!

That's interesting. Here in Yellowstone territory, the locals hate it and every review of it in local and regional papers use cuss words to describe it. And the folks I know who worked on the set think it's a joke.

I don't have a teevee so I have never seen it, after hearing my friends and neighbors talk about it, probably not worth trying to watch.

[Budi]

4. Well millions of people who actually watched the series would disagree.

Yellowstone was pure story telling entertaiment.
And that's why its fanbase is in the millions.

If ya want a documentary, go visit a local history museum.

Yellowstone was the best entertainment we could have wished for as America was sent into isolation.

Costner's timing was spot on.

[hlthe2b]

5. Well, I think the setting may be Montana, but was likely inspired by Jackson, WY. Even quote in S-1

about more per capita billionaires, reflects Jackson, WY, not MT. Likewise many of the attitudes.

[2naSalit]

6. Lots of millionaires around here...

But you may be right about the inspiration but they filmed it south of Missoula and in Utah. I know the key grip well and some of the other crew members... all of whom thought it took a lot of poetic license with the story line and pasted it into a scene that wasn't what it purported to be, as Hollywood does. That's the part that seems to get the most resentment.

I don't really care except that people watch this stuff on teevee and then come here thinking some pretty strange stuff about the place and the people who live here. If you live and work here, you have to deal with a lot of misperceptions that people get from shows like that and expect to be true.

And then there's the issue of Costner and his persona non grata status in these parts.

Good movies that have been made on this area; A River Runs Through It, Horse Whisperer, Rancho Deluxe, The Ballad of Lefty Brown (which I highly recommend).

Don't think any teevee series has been filmed around here other than NG stuff which is documentary stuff.

I was just relaying what the local attitude toward the show and story line is around the place it's said to be about.

[hlthe2b]

7. True, but look it up. That stat is absolutely correct. And, yeah, I spent enough time in that part

of WY to attest to a lot of accuracies in the show--particularly how WY government works.

But, I don't doubt the Costner backlash. There has been a lot of resentment toward him for years, both for real and imagined issues. Not to mention the natural irritation the region has toward Hollywood "Aspenites."

[2naSalit]

9. Folks on the west side of the Tetons...

Have a saying about Jackson and the aristocracy there. "A place where the billionaires have squeezed out the millionaires." We can thank the Cheney's for that.

[hlthe2b]

10. Yup...

Detestable creature, that one.

[Ilsa]

13. Was Longmire filmed in Wyoming?

The funniest thing about Longmire was that the lead actor is from Australia, not western US. He was great in that role.

[2naSalit]

14. A little bit...

The story is set in northern Wyoming, but the series has been filmed in several locations in New Mexico, including Santa Fe, Eagle Nest, Espanola, and Red River, and Las Vegas, New Mexico.[21] Buffalo, in Johnson County, in northeast Wyoming, is the setting for some scenes set in the fictional town of Durant, county seat of Absaroka.[22]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longmire_(TV_series)#Development_and_production

[Squinch]

8. I thought the first episode was unwatchable, and I didn't go back after watching it. Did it get

better?

It looked like a type of show I would love, but I just couldn't get past Kelly Reilly's bad acting, and there was nothing in that first episode that grabbed me.

Should I try it again?

[hlthe2b]

11. She isn't my cup of tea, but I tend to overlook her now. Her backstory has made her a bit less

unlikeable. (i.e., her character's backstory)

[jimfields33]

12. 5.2 million people watched

And that’s the number 1 show of the year. That’s amazing only because the 2019-2020 regular season ran until May and shows taped before the virus. This show beat NCIS, and other shows? Just surprised I guess.