Is 'Yellowstone' ruining Montana?

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

‘Yellowstone’ is one of the most popular television shows in the country. What does it get right – and wrong – about the people and landscapes of the American West?

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0:00.0	Hey, this is outside in. I'm Nate Hedgy here today with someone whose name you hear often in our credits,
0:06.2	Rebecca Laveoy.
0:07.2	Hello.
0:08.2	Rebecca's a TV and podcast critic and a podcast host in her own right, but she's also
0:12.3	NHPR's director of on-demand audio.
0:14.6	That's your title, right?
0:15.4	Director of on-demand audio?
0:16.8	I'm the head of podcast, it's just a lot easier to say.
0:19.4	Well, I wanted to use on-demand because I gave you a demand recently to binge watch the show Yellowstone.
0:28.0	Yes, Val ain't mine.
0:31.0	Come and get it.
0:32.0	I plan to.
0:34.0	This is survival.
0:36.0	Kill or be killed.
0:38.0	You leave now.
0:39.0	So, Yellowstone first came out in 2018.
0:42.0	It's five seasons deep.
0:43.4	Kevin Kostner plays the lead, and it's got
0:46.6	cowboys, cattle ranches, big sweeping shots
0:49.9	of the Rocky Mountains.
0:51.6	And public radio audiences may be surprised to hear this, but Yellowstone
0:57.2	was the most watched cable TV show in 2022. So Rebecca, what did you think of it? I watched the whole thing. I hated it and I
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