Yellowstone · Season 1 · Paramount Network
Yellowstone Season 1
Yellowstone Season 1 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 6.5/10. 9 episodes on Paramount Network from 20 June 2018.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Yellowstone debuted on the Paramount Network in June 2018 with a premise that reviewers quickly bracketed as Dallas with mountains: the Dutton family's Montana cattle ranch under siege from developers, Indigenous land claims and internal succession warfare. The 58% Rotten Tomatoes score from 55 critics captured a mainstream press consensus that the show was too melodramatic and too content with moral ambiguity to qualify as prestige drama. Critics noted few likable characters and a Kevin Costner performance pitched at stoic grandiosity. The 82% audience score told a completely different story: Yellowstone found a massive popular audience that cable television had not produced for years, a viewership that would swell to record-breaking numbers by Season 4.
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The Room
“Yellowstone only debuted in the summer of 2018, but it's already outdated to call it a mere TV show.”
BuzzFeed News
Standout Episodes
The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.
- E17.3
A tough, talky pilot finds its power when land stops being scenery and starts pushing back.
Full review of E1 → - E2Kill the Messenger7.4
A confident second hour that widens the threat map and lets the Duttons be complicated.
Full review of E2 → - E37.3
A tense control-room episode where Beth sharpens the politics, while blunt commands sometimes flatten the danger.
Full review of E3 → - E47.2
A tense control episode where Yellowstone seals its land, bruises Jimmy, and lets Rip's calm start looking dangerous.
Full review of E4 → - E57.3
A tense Yellowstone hour where five million dollars buys a horse, but Kayce's barrel trade sets the real price.
Full review of E5 → - E67.6
The brand gives the hour its cruel spine, even when the politics crowd the wound too quickly.
Full review of E6 → - E77.1
A tense, spare hour where land, surgery and silence sharpen Yellowstone’s family conflict, even when the connective tissue thins.
Full review of E7 → - E87.3
A tense command-and-consequence hour where guns, land, and loyalty expose how fragile Dutton authority really is.
Full review of E8 → - E98.1
A sharp Dutton fracture hour where loyalty curdles into strategy, and every rescue plan looks like another threat.
Full review of E9 →