I very reluctantly started watching and made it through 3 episodes before calling it quits. For starters, it’s just another version of every other Taylor Sheridan show that features overly macho guys swinging their dicks at each other and a cast of women that is largely portrayed as being stupid and fairly annoying eye candy. If this show was a restaurant, it would be Hooters. It’s very clear that Sheridan struggles to write good female characters which makes me wonder if this is just how he views women. The part that made me quit was the scene with the wind turbines. The lawyer saying “What are those?” was a major eye roll, but then it was followed by a BBT rant against wind and renewable energy that was absurdly false and makes this show appear to be a thinly veiled propaganda piece for the O&G industry. His claims that the wind turbine will not offset its carbon footprint in its 20-year lifespan are not even remotely true. There are plenty of reputable resources that do life-cycle assessments for wind turbines and most indicate that it takes less than a year to offset the initial environmental impact. This is not even a gray area and it’s insulting to the intelligence of the viewer. Perhaps you could say that BBT is speaking from the perspective of his landman character (which is really more of a Midland, Texas ripoff of Michael Clayton if we’re being honest), and that may be true that his character would speak from this obviously biased and misinformed point of view, but he delivers his lines in such an authoritative way and there is no pushback against this to present an alternative viewpoint, so it really feels like Taylor Sheridan is using this character to force his own misinformation onto the viewer. Scenes like this are apparently getting reposted by fans on social media as sort of “gotcha” message, so clearly there is a demographic that gobbles this shit up and it feeds into their misinformation echo chamber. I think there is another one with Jon Hamm in a boardroom and I don’t know beyond that. I don’t expect the show to improve in any of these areas because I think this is just who Sheridan is and he has an audience that clearly likes it. There are much better things to watch so I’ll see myself out and move on.