‘Yellowstone’ is back, as season 5 of the Kevin Costner series takes an even sharper turn in politics

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“Yellowstone” is one of those mysteries in the world of television, a series that is born Main Categories But like the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield, he doesn’t always get a lot of respect. This dynamic was summed up last year with a Address of Vanity Fair Which reads, “Here’s Yellowstone, the most-watched show that not everyone talks about.”

Success is usually TV’s best revenge, even if it doesn’t bring Emmy nominations with it. However, the new season of the Paramount Network series arrives at what appears to be a more appropriate one by making a sharper turn to politics, to go with all the soapy action around John Dutton, the character he plays Kevin CostnerAnd his sprawling farm.

Granted, Montana Politics has been a part of the chain since the beginning. But last season Dutton threw his hat into the ring at the Governor’s race, putting him in a position that, as he said in his acceptance speech during the season 5 premiere, “was never my plan.”

Already a modern Western, never deviating from its cowboy roots, Yellowstone is clear in expressing skepticism about the interests of the big city and wealthy vacationers looking to turn Montana and its pristine mountains into a playground rather than home.

In fact, Dutton brings the same silent, square-jawed values ​​to politics that he does in business and dealing with his family, stating bluntly, “I fight for what’s right. I don’t really care who supports it.”

There’s a lot more to this series than that, of course, but this new role for Dutton as the kind of principled, no-nonsense public official who almost anyone would hope to be on the ballot regardless of policy preferences can help differentiate the latest program. Dramatic arc amid Paramount’s onslaught of pop-up objects attached to it. In addition to “1883,” Fired last year with Sam Elliott in the saddle, and another Prequel with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren“1932” will premiere in December on streaming service Paramount+.

Patriarch “Yellowstone” Taylor Sheridan is also behind a new Paramount+ series set in the heart of the country, “Tulsa King” Another veteran movie star, Sylvester Stallone, appears to play a New York gangster exiled to Oklahoma after leaving prison.

In a sense, Yellowstone and its various spinoffs seem to show that no matter how much the entertainment industry changes, some things never completely go out of fashion — in this case, star power, which Costner (who did more to keep Westerns alive) more than any other modern representative) it provides in abundance; The plot lines of the old series.

Throw in a patriotic “West Wing” doll, and who knows? The new season of “Yellowstone” may lead to more talk about it.

“Yellowstone” Season 5 premieres November 13 at 8 p.m. ET on Paramount Network.