"This is totally false" : the Yellowstone series deemed too violent by a professional

The departure of Kevin Costner, who will not return for a season 6 and even plans to file a complaint against the series, sealed the fate of Yellowstone. Season 5, which has just started on Paramount+, will therefore be the last, even if the universe will continue since a new spin-off has been ordered, with Matthew McConaughey! Since its launch in 2018, the series has met with great success by following the daily life of the Duttons, a family of farmers at the head of the largest ranch in the United States. Within this dysfunctional clan, the often ruthless patriarch John Dutton navigates drama, betrayals and bloody murders, which result in scenes that are particularly difficult for viewers to watch. This violence intrinsic to the saga created by Taylor Sheridan is not always to the taste of Jessie Jarvis, a breeder from Idaho interviewed by the American site Variety and which points out the inconsistencies of the program.

Yellowstone : “It sometimes feels like someone gets shot every episode!“

Coming from eight generations of Idaho ranchers, Jessie Jarvis has more than 46,000 subscribers on Instagram, with whom she shares her daily life as a farmer and mother. For Variety, she agreed to engage in a sort of true/false on Yellowstone. She notably returned to the aggressiveness of certain characters in the series, which tarnishes the image of breeders in the American West. “Violence is something that is in no way accurate, she notes. It sometimes feels like someone gets shot every episode!“,

For her, the showrunners pushed the line a little too much: “Yellowstone is also a bit crude in its language, which, aside from the violence, is completely wrong. Of course I sometimes swear at a cow. We also always joke that when you sort cattle as a family, no one will get out without being yelled at. But that’s not it at all“. Nevertheless, Jessie Jarvis assures that she loves the series, which highlights, in other aspects, her environment.

How Yellowstone depicts rural America

On the issue of intra-family conflicts, Jessie Jarvis finds that Yellowstone realistically depicts what she and those close to her can go through on a daily basis. “When you work daily with your spouse and parents, or with your children, there can be a lot of tension, especially on livestock operations or farms“, she confirms, although there is no comparison with the dramatic events experienced by John Dutton and his children Kaycee, Lee, Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Jamie since season 1.

Also, the mother welcomes the way in which the series manages to transcribe the problems of rural America on screen, and in particular the question of land encroachment due to population growth. Clothing-wise too, the outfits of the characters in the series are authentic. “You’ll see a lot of Kimes Ranch on the show – it’s a brand we carry. The hats they wear are from brands like American Hat and Greeley Hat, which we also carry. Taylor Sheridan (the showrunner) has done phenomenal work in this area“, she greets. Finally, Yellowstone also shows to what extent patriotism and attachment to the land are deeply anchored in the daily lives of the characters, values ​​in which Jessie and those close to him recognize themselves.

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