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I just watched this season over the last few days, culminating with the final season ep tonight.

It's this decade's version of Dallas and Dynasty from the 80s, with more fucks, shits, and tits.  It's a forgettable, guilty-pleasure type show, albeit kinda watchable.  I only really gave a shit about BBTs character and the interactions with Dale and Nate.  

But not enough tits. Really, they fell WAY short on the nudity for the kind of show this is.  And that was annoying because you can make a forgettable show less forgettable, thus more re-watches, with tits.

BBTs ring tone and picture of his ex-wife was funny.  

 

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On 1/9/2025 at 12:27 AM, wood said:

Yeah the suspension of reality failed its final test when I looked up and saw them trying to pass off Jerruh as some kind of family man LOFL. What in the actual fuck?

I thought it was actually quite accurate.  he bought the cowboys so he could work with his family, not to win football games.  It's basically a really fancy lake house where everyone can meet during the holidays to him. 

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6 hours ago, dcar00 said:

I thought it was actually quite accurate.  he bought the cowboys so he could work with his family, not to win football games.  It's basically a really fancy lake house where everyone can meet during the holidays to him. 

Explains why his team always shits the bed too.

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8 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

“You can’t get pregnant from what I promised.”

 

Good finale, fun season. 

In my mind, she meant butt sex. And I'm pissed we didn't get that scene. Instead, we got more PigPen.

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34 minutes ago, Lat22 said:

I say this with an unblemished record of staunch heterosexuality, but I’m tired of the “17 year old” whore and her mother. 

I say this with a complicated sexuality - they both are vapid oxygen thieves. 

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42 minutes ago, Lat22 said:

I say this with an unblemished record of staunch heterosexuality, but I’m tired of the “17 year old” whore and her mother. 

I can't stand them when they are on the screen.  The storylines suck ass.

Ali Larter's tits are great, but they have some heavy lifting to do...

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11 minutes ago, Uncle Nate said:

Andy Garcia is in the house!

Andy Garcia is perfect for this role! Absolutely perfect. 

I hope TS doesn’t fuck up the storyline with Andy’s character. There is some great potential for the interactions between him and BBT.

 

Does he have to skid stop a cutting horse?

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1 hour ago, Iceman said:

I can't stand them when they are on the screen.  The storylines suck ass.

Ali Larter's tits are great, but they have some heavy lifting to do...

The heavy lifting is done by her plastic surgeon every 8-10 years.

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1 hour ago, Uncle Nate said:

Andy Garcia is in the house!

Andy Garcia is perfect for this role! Absolutely perfect. 

I hope TS doesn’t fuck up the storyline with Andy’s character. There is some great potential for the interactions between him and BBT.

 

The Andy Garcia was only set for 1 day jokes write themselves, but he came in hot and delivered. 

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13 hours ago, SizzleChest said:

I just watched this season over the last few days, culminating with the final season ep tonight.

It's this decade's version of Dallas and Dynasty from the 80s, with more fucks, shits, and tits.  It's a forgettable, guilty-pleasure type show, albeit kinda watchable.  I only really gave a shit about BBTs character and the interactions with Dale and Nate.  

But not enough tits. Really, they fell WAY short on the nudity for the kind of show this is.  And that was annoying because you can make a forgettable show less forgettable, thus more re-watches, with tits.

BBTs ring tone and picture of his ex-wife was funny.  

 

Isn't that basically what all of Taylor Sheridan's Paramount shows are now?

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I just want a tighter show. All the old people stuff is a waste, same for spending SO much time on the daughter and the QB that's absolutely going to die in a car wreck within the first ten min of s02e01.

Give me more oil shit. More Cooper oil shit. More Dale and Nate. More Andy Garcia. Less wife and daughter, unless you make them interesting. More BBT.

I know it's TS so there will be way too much fluff but it's too much.

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18 hours ago, dcar00 said:

I thought it was actually quite accurate.  he bought the cowboys so he could work with his family, not to win football games.  It's basically a really fancy lake house where everyone can meet during the holidays to him. 

It would have been a perfect scene had BBT chimed in if that included all the side piece kids.

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12 hours ago, NoName said:

I just want a tighter show. All the old people stuff is a waste, same for spending SO much time on the daughter and the QB that's absolutely going to die in a car wreck within the first ten min of s02e01.

Give me more oil shit. More Cooper oil shit. More Dale and Nate. More Andy Garcia. Less wife and daughter, unless you make them interesting. More BBT.

I know it's TS so there will be way too much fluff but it's too much.

This here. And re: the bold portion, pretty sure that's unpossible.

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On 1/13/2025 at 12:56 AM, dcar00 said:

I thought it was actually quite accurate.  he bought the cowboys so he could work with his family, not to win football games.  It's basically a really fancy lake house where everyone can meet during the holidays to him. 

'Member when they were good though? I member...here's a pic of a current DCC and the final two surviving DCCs from the last SB win

 

 

 

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14 hours ago, C-Man said:

After a season or two, Yellowstone was 100% being called "Dallas in Montana" etc.

Cooper is just another cut at Jimmy, with a bigger brain, a  smaller wiener; and less personality.

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1 hour ago, Iceman said:

Cooper is just another cut at Jimmy, with a bigger brain, a  smaller wiener; and less personality.

Did you like Yellowstone, but thought Jimmy was just too big of a personality? We present to you PigPen! 

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4 minutes ago, lateshow said:

Did you like Yellowstone, but thought Jimmy was just too big of a personality? We present to you PigPen! 

I just think Cooper as a character has a lot of potential, but always lands on "Meh."

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Yeah... that line was... it was something. lol.

With regards to being critical of the details: Imagine getting worked up over "The Office" because it doesn't accurately depict what cubicle life is like and how the boss (and employees) get away with doing and saying ridiculous shit.  It's a show.  Enjoy it for what it is.  Or don't watch.  Whatever. 

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3 hours ago, BlueGreySky said:

Yeah... that line was... it was something. lol.

Also was hilarious that she was explaining the riverwalk to a 23 year old man who grew up in Texas as if he had never heard of it just because he hasn't been.

AI. No doubt in my mind.

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There is an alternative, you can throw away your cell phone and turn in that Mercedes and ride a bicycle, hunt for your food and live in a tent, you’ll be the only one and it won’t make a damn bit of difference, plus I hear the moral high ground gets really windy at night.

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Eh, this is a fun show. It's set in a world most Texans know a little bit and nobody in their right mind would ever set something in a god forsaken shithole like Midland and environs. BBT makes it. 

Im going to get irritated when Hamms character croaks and Demi Moore becomes the smartest person in the history of the oil patch with zero experience. They aren't paying her that money to mope around in a hospital room. Think Beth Dutton Redux. 

Fuck it I will still watch because look what else is out there. Five more shows about the Mendendez Brothers?

 

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17 minutes ago, bullzak said:

Eh, this is a fun show. It's set in a world most Texans know a little bit and nobody in their right mind would ever set something in a god forsaken shithole like Midland and environs. BBT makes it. 

Im going to get irritated when Hamms character croaks and Demi Moore becomes the smartest person in the history of the oil patch with zero experience. They aren't paying her that money to mope around in a hospital room. Think Beth Dutton Redux. 

Fuck it I will still watch because look what else is out there. Five more shows about the Mendendez Brothers?

 

OK either I saw an episode that no one else saw..... or some of you are not actually watching the show and either on your phones or computers the whole fucking time.

 

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The last scene was showing Hamm's character in the fucking hospital room with the literal flatline on his monitors, and his girls sobbing while holding him.   There's no "when" he croaks... he fucking died.   we will probably get some flashbacks of Hamm in the next season for an episode or 2, but shes taken over the entire company and the oil patch and she bet it all on black already.

 

 

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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.

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I don’t think Landman snuck up on Hollywood. No Sheridan show will after Yellowstone. I believe Landman averaged 15 million viewers per episode. That it is a gigantic hit for a streamer not named Netflix. 
 

I think the critics were hoping for a Michael Clayton type show, but we got something a lot more fun and unhinged. 
 

I’ll agree with the monologue followed by a reaction criticisms of the show. Sheridan did this far too often, but they were good monologues. 
 

It’s never going to win an Emmy or a Golden Globe, but that’s ok. Flawed but fun show is fair. 
 

I don’t know what Sheridan is trying to say about energy or the environment, but I’ve seen projections of 38% increase on the grid due to AI. The servers use an insane amount of energy. We’re going to need more power period to make AI work.

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On 1/23/2025 at 12:14 PM, AUS-97HORN said:

OK either I saw an episode that no one else saw..... or some of you are not actually watching the show and either on your phones or computers the whole fucking time.

 

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The last scene was showing Hamm's character in the fucking hospital room with the literal flatline on his monitors, and his girls sobbing while holding him.   There's no "when" he croaks... he fucking died.   we will probably get some flashbacks of Hamm in the next season for an episode or 2, but shes taken over the entire company and the oil patch and she bet it all on black already.

 

 


This. They Ned Starked us.

On with the show. 

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Made it through seven episodes,  couldn’t bring myself to keep going.
 

Good production quality, but nothing about the story compels me to keep watching. Love BBL as a performer but I just don’t care about any of the characters.

Sure you were all dying to know. I’ll probably check out Lioness now as I’ve heard good things.

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