Yellowstone Is ‘Designed for Them to Hate’ According to Show Creator

Some critics have decried the direction the show has taken and criticized it for its narrative structure and the way it handles characters. These criticisms have led to the show getting negative reviews, despite how successful and beloved it is by its audience.

“I don’t care if critics hate it, and I don’t care if they like it. I’m not resentful. I just simply do not care. I’m not making it for them; I’m making it for people who live that life. The audience has expanded beyond that because, you know, a lot of people love westerns,” Sheridan told the New York Times.

“I think one of the reasons the critics haven’t responded to Yellowstone is that I’m breaking a lot of story rules. I’ll jump the plot ahead for no reason whatsoever except that I wanted to, and it’s entertaining. The people who get it eat it up, and the people that try to look at it with a critical eye see a mess,” Sheridan explained to the New York Times.

Sheridan told the New York Times that, “the way that it flows from being campy to melodramatic to intensely dramatic to violent. It’s every old western and new western and soap opera thrown together in a blender. And yes, I think it infuriates and confounds some people who study storytelling. They don’t understand why this thing’s such a hit.”

“In that, I have a lot of opportunities to poke fun, but also kind of point out different points of view, and kind of really study a way of life and a world. There’s a lot of defiance in the way I do it. It’s not surprising that critics hate it because it’s designed for them to hate,” he said.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the show has a critic score of 84%, which is a positive score. This goes to show that most respected critics who have reviewed it have a positive perception of the series. If most critics are liking the show, it’s unclear how the show can be designed to make them hate it.

Brian Lowry wrote in his review that, “Yellowstone gets bogged down in minutia and politics, and generally winds up being about as exciting as watching a zoning-commission meeting.”

In contrast to the critic scores, season one of “Yellowstone” was much better received by audience members. The show has an 83% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes from over 1,000 ratings.

It won a Golden Globe in 2023 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series. The award went to Kevin Costner for his role as John Dutton, the owner of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch and patriarch of his family.

His latest film “Those Who Wish Me Dead” is a 2021 thriller starring John Bernthal, Aidan Gillen, Finn Little, and Angelina Jolie. It follows a young boy who witnesses a murder and is forced to flee from killers who mean to silence him.

One possible reason for the cancellation is the show’s star Kevin Costner is moving on from the series. This has caused a feud between Sheridan and Costner, which caused Esquire to speculate that Costner may not even return for the show’s finale.

This project is based on a book called “Empire of the Summer Moon”. Dallas News reported that Sheridan bought the rights to tell the story of Comanche leader Quanah Parker. At this point, it hasn’t been revealed whether this project will be a feature film or a series for television.