Probably everyone who watches Yellowstone season one has their favourites, and characters they can’t stand. Costner can do something cold and ruthless one moment, then somehow still make you hope he succeeds. I’ve seen all of those characters before, but not in one performance. And he also delivers on the deadly powerful businessman who is physically crumbling. He gives you the man who will dive into a river to save a kid. He gives you the aging cowboy who will still get on a bucking bronc and do the ranch work himself.
He told Entertainment Weekly, “I always felt that I would end up playing a laconic kind of Western character.” Well, laconic is John Dutton to a tee.Ĭostner is grizzled, stoic, and somehow at once worn down by life and intimidating AF. Kevin Costner is brilliant as the Dutton patriarch. Every single character in each episode is integral to the story. He doesn’t seem to have a good side, but that makes him a great nemesis and counterpart to Rainwater, whose loathing of the Duttons is driven by a respectable purpose.Īnd that’s just the biggest players. Dan Jenkins (Danny Huston) is a greedy capital developer who, like Rainwater, has eyes on Dutton’s land.Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) is John Dutton’s right-hand man on the ranch and off, and seems to have a good heart that he can switch off to do his boss’ dirty work.Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) is the chief of the Broken Rock Reservation, tribal chairman, and extremely wealthy guy who wants to do right by his people by getting their land back – especially the Dutton land.Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) is a former soldier who takes the law into his own hands pretty much whenever he wants and hides it from his family I actually don’t like him at all.Jamie Dutton (Wes Bentley) is a lawyer and politician with a knack for finding legal loopholes, but he doesn’t actually enjoy it.Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) buys out and crushes businesses for a living and is almost always drunk, but when you see what happened to make her that way you can’t hate her.John Dutton (Kevin Costner) is a power-hungry land baron who treats his kids like shit, but he’s a doting grandfather.
I think the reason it works is because the acting is so strong, and most of the characters have at least one redeeming quality. The first time I watched Yellowstone’s first season, I was astounded that a show with so many despicable people could be SO F*CKING ENJOYABLE. If you have no stomach for death, Yellowstone is not for you. There’s a healthy serving of action ranging from brutal fist fights to meth lab explosions, horseback injuries, murder, and even an impaling. It’s just over of half the size of my own family’s ranch here in British Columbia, and we ain’t rich.īe forewarned.
Yellowstone is a modern ranching show, and a political drama, and a rich family soap opera, AND an unflinching view of tensions between Native Americans and white people. Hang onto your hats – for real, hats are a big f*cking deal on this show. It’s so deliciously dramatic, violent, thrilling, and downright messed up. Even though the episodes are long, you can’t stop. I watched the Yellowstone‘s entire first season in three days, then watched it again. But lo and behold, Costner was indeed staring down at me from the Yellowstone season 1 DVD set.Ī Western series with Kevin Costner?! HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS?! But at least I’m not like, 10 years late to the party, like I was with Deadwood. I was walking through a store and my fiancé goes, “is that Kevin Costner?” Now, usually he is so, so wrong about actors’ faces. Released: 2018 Mood: If you can’t decide between modern Western and political drama and sexy people being horrible and you want “D, all of the above” but with excellent acting and production. Starring: Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley, Cole Hauser, Kelsey Asbille, Gil Birmingham, Jefferson White, Danny Huston Director: Various
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