Nov. 8, 2024

Yellowstone Season 3

Show Notes
Transcript

In this episode, Joe breaks down Market Equities' arrival with Roarke Morris and Willa Hayes, Beth's career moves, Jamie's parentage revelation, and the coordinated attacks on the family. Special focus on the growing threat to the ranch's existence.

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Calarogus Shark Media. Welcome back to TV in the Basement,

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where we dive deep into the hottest shows on television.

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I'm your host, Journey Joe Mitchell, and today, folks, we're

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moseying back to the Yellowstone Dutton ranch for season three.

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And let me tell you. If you thought the Beck

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brothers were trouble, wait until you meet Market Equities and

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their shark and designer heels Rourke Morris. Now season three

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is like watching a chess game where all the pieces

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are made of nitroglycerin. Our new antagonist Roorke Morris. Josh

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Holloway swaggers in with his fishing rod and his Wall

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Street millions, looking like he just stepped out of a

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luxury ranch catalog. But folks, don't let that pretty smile

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fool you. This man's got more tricks up his sleeve

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than a rodeo clown at a bull festival. And then

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there's Willa Hayes Karen Pittman, the CEO of Market Equities,

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who makes Beth Dutton look like little bo Peep. When

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these two corporate raiders set their sights on the Yellowstone,

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it's like watching wolves circling a wounded buffalo, except this

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buffalo's got nuclear weapons and daddy issues. Speaking of Beth,

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Kelly Riley continues to be the show's secret weapon. Her

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verbal shootouts with Willa Hayes are like watching two tornadoes

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collide over a dynamite factory. There's this one boardroom scene

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that'll make you want to stand up and applaud or

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hide under your couch, maybe both. And her relationship with

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Rip Folks, it's evolving faster than a Montana weather forecast.

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Cole Hauser and Kelly Riley could generate electricity just by

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looking at each other. Let's talk about the big man himself.

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Kevin Costner's John Dutton spends this season realizing that sometimes

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the biggest threats don't come wearing black hats and carrying

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six shooters. They come with briefcases, billion dollar offers and

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environmental impact studies. Watching him try to navigate this new

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battlefield is like watching a gunslinger bring a revolver to

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a drone fight. But the real surprise this season is

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Jamie Dutton. Wes Bentley takes us on a journey darker

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than a moonless Montana night. When Jamie starts digging into

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his past. What he finds is the kind of family

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secret that makes the Dutton's usual drama look like a

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Sunday picnic. The scene where he confronts John Folks, it's

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the kind of acting that makes award shows sit up

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and take notice. Meanwhile, Casey is settling into his role

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as livestock commissioner like a boot into a stirrup. Luke

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Grimes shows us a man finally finding his balance between

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family duty and personal honor. Though let's be honest, in

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the Dutton family, those lines are blurrier than a whiskey

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bottle at closing time. And can we talk about the

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scale of this season. The show's gotten bigger than a

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Montana sky. We've got corporate takeovers, land grabs, political maneuvering,

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and enough family drama to fill ten soap operas. There's

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this one sequence involving a protest that's shot so beautifully

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it belongs in a film school textbook. The ranch scenes

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continue to be a highlight. Watching the bunk house boys

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at work and play is like getting a masterclass in

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modern cowboy life, and the addition of Teeter Folks Jennifer

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Landon turns this pink haired ranch hand into the kind

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of character you can't take your eyes off. Her romance

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with Colby is sweeter than honey and rougher than sandpaper.

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In other words, perfect for Yellowstone. Now some critics are

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saying the show's gotten too big, too ambitious. To them,

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I say, have you seen Montana? Everything's big out there,

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the steaks, the scenery, the personalities, it's all larger than life.

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And Season three leans into that like a horse into

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a gallop. The season builds to a finale that'll have

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you checking your pulse to make sure your heart's still beating.

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Without spoiling anything, let's just say it makes the Red

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wedding look like a tea party. The last ten minutes, folks,

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I had to pick my jaw up off the floor

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with a spatula. Special mention has to go to the

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introduction of Lost's Josh Holloway as Rourke. He brings this smooth,

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calculating energy that's different from previous villains. He's not just

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trying to take the ranch, He's trying to change the

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whole game. And watching him go toe to toe with Beds,

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it's like watching two card sharps try to outbluff each

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other with royal flushes. The show also digs deeper into

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themes of change versus tradition, progress versus preservation. The Duttons

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aren't just fighting for their land anymore. They're fighting for

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a way of life. It's like watching the last Cowboys

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face off against the future itself, and the Future's got

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a pretty impressive legal team. Every episode looks like a

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love letter to Montana. There's this one scene at sunrise

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that'll make you want to sell everything you own and

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move west until you remember that in the Yellowstone Universe,

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Montana's about as peaceful as a cat and a dog pound.

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So what's the verdict on season three? It's like the

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show took everything we loved about the first two seasons,

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added a shot of adrenaline, a dash of corporate intrigue,

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and a whole lot of family drama, then shook it

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up like a cocktail in a tornado. The result pure

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lightning in a bottle.