![]() ![]() The governor and her cronies are telling Jamie as much in order to let Team Dutton get in front of the story somehow - our first taste of the institutional corruption that, in the world of "Yellowstone", inundates the state government. Meanwhile in Helena, the governor asks Jamie Dutton to her office to show him a coroner's report that shows it's impossible for the late Lee Dutton to have killed Kayce's brother-in-law because the bullet that killed him would have paralyzed him first, meaning there must have been a third shooter. Thank goodness that giant explosion didn't seem to damage it much! These two decide they're going to dig it up themselves. It's the sort of thing that would send any paleontologist worth their salt into paroxysms of animal lust. I mean, this sucker's a real museum piece. Then he shoots the explosives, causing a massive explosion that atomizes the stump, scares his wife, and reveals a (get ready for the preposterous part) full, intact dinosaur fossil skeleton. He upends the tractor, which sends him into a huff, so he retrieves the explosives and the rifle, as we Montanans are wont to do. Next, we have another brand of preposterousness entirely, as Kayce tries to remove an old stump by pulling it out with a tractor and chain. Now, if being duct-taped to a horse made you a cowboy, I suspect that rich out-of-staters would pay $1000 an hour for it, and they'd call it a therapeutic treatment. But then, I guess However, even in the midst of this absurdity, the show delivers a few nice lines, including this exchange between Dutton and one of the hands: Jimmy's like to have his wrists and ankles shattered, if not worse. First of all, what if the horse goes over, as it does in the first scene. I'm no horse whisperer myself, but I suspect there may be more nuance to "breaking" a horse than can be achieved with duct tape. Where it gets downright silly is in the idea of duct-taping Jimmy, the "low man" in the ranch-hand hierarchy, to the back of the horse as a way to tame the horse. Oh well, John Wayne didn't break a sweat all that often, either. In fact, when it cuts back to Costner's Dutton, he isn't even breathing hard. Still, it's hard not to notice how artfully the show hides the fact that, whoever the cowboy is who's riding that bucking bronco, it sure ain't Kevin Costner. After all, he's the hero, and if we don't buy the conceit that Dutton is an extraordinary cowboy, we may as well not watch the show at all. But then it'll have a great scene or even a handful of them, even in the middle of even the worst episode.īut as for preposterous, this episode's got it in spades.įirst, we might be able to forgive the show trying to convince us that the 65-year-old Costner is up for taming a wild stallion. It's lucky for the show that the characters are so interesting, or it might all be too silly to credit as serious entertainment. ![]() If Yellowstone has a weakness so far, it's a slight, or sometimes more than slight, tendency towards preposterousness. S1 E2: "Kill the Messenger" Episode rating: 3 out of 5 ![]()
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