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Taylor Sheridan shows are a great place to go if you want to watch a septuagenarian southerner ramble for ten minutes straight about how cool and good freedom, America, oil, guns, America, ruggedness, America, and freedom are. And how bad those sissy lib-er-all home of sexuals are for destroying America with wind turbines and woke.

Seriously. Everything the man has written recently has at least one EPIC rant per series where the main character, Rugged Cowboy America Man, owns some liberal with facts and logic, then everybody claps, and he rips off his mask and he was Albert Einstein the whole time.

What do people see in this?

Inspiration failed me. All I could think of was stating the obvious - he hit on a winning formula of American chud badassery. But I had no details. I had a look at some Reddit threads.

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How come everything Taylor Sheridan touches turns to television gold?

Because he is Tyler Perry for a certain class of white people so they will eat up the same shit over and over again because it is reflecting their beliefs back at them in a way that is entertaining

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His later TV work, especially Landman, gives off the most low-effort MAGA appeal I’ve ever seen. Has he always been a chud and I never picked up on it, or is it just a formula that works, so he keeps pumping out these rugged male MAGA fantasies?

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I see that Taylor Sheridan gets solo writer credit on all the episodes. How true is this? Isn't TV written by a group of writers?

This is a shitty tactic done by showrunners to get more credit and money. The room breaks the story, a writer goes off and writes a draft. The showrunner does a NEW draft. Sometimes they change a little, sometimes a lot, then they get a credit. A good showrunner won't take credit, and give credit to the staff writer, a worse one will split credit, and the worse move of all they simply take credit, locking the staff writer out of the fee for a script and further residuals and taking that extra cash and credit for themselves. It's a total dick move considering the showrunner is probably already getting at least $300k per episode as the showrunner, on top of what they got for selling the show, etc.

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I honestly think Yellowstone would have been much better bordering on great if the Duttons would have been portrayed as villains of the show instead of heroes. That would also fit more with the themes of his earlier work.

Its wild, because even the show he started on, Sons od Anarchy, glamorized the gangs but didn't show them as good people and saviors at least not to the extent of Yellowstone.

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In Lioness S2 Morgan Freeman rambles for 8 straight minutes about caricature liberal media and the current administration not being able to do shit while Bush Jr unified the nation after 9/11. The show's plot also revolves around Mexican cartel trafficking people into the US under Iranian protection.

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Don’t forget the blatant transphobia-propaganda in Lioness. At one point the dad mocks the children for asking about pronouns, and the kids call him “transphobic” for doing so. And then he puts them down by saying that “disagreeing with someone doesn’t mean I’m afraid of them”

It’s conservative propaganda directed by Taylor Sheridan.