Posted on 11/18/2021 11:18:08 AM PST by Rummyfan
To judge by the passions and interests of the Twitterati and those who dominate the cultural conversation in the United States, you would think the most important, most beloved, most addictive show on television is HBO’s “Succession.”
Its third-season premiere in October was watched by 1.8 million people — an all-time high for the show (so says The Hollywood Reporter) that was “driven largely by digital platforms and HBO Max in particular.”
If you learned about America’s cultural habits only from the Twitterati, you would never know that the most important, most beloved and most addictive show on television — by the account not of the chattering classes but actual American television viewers — is, in fact, “Yellowstone.”
That show’s fourth-season premiere, on a hard-to-find basic cable channel called the Paramount Network, was watched by 12 times as many people as “Succession” — 14.7 million, according to Nielsen. It was the highest-rated fictional program in all of television last week; only sports broadcasts topped it.
There’s no way to stream a new episode right after it airs. You watch it when it’s on, or you tape it, or you miss it. What’s more, it doubled its viewership from its season premiere last year.
To offer a contrast: The audience for “Succession” rose 200,000, an increase of about 15 percent. “Yellowstone” grew by 5.5 million.
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I don’t watch anything new because most new stuff is woke. Is this show not woke?
Yellowstone is awesome. Just hope they aren’t forced to go PC like the last seasonss of “24” and “Homeland” did.
Should I take him to the bus station or the train station?
There has not been one man calling another man his husband.
That’s my litmus test.
Will do!
No, this show has ‘woke’ elements. However, the brutality and finality seem to anchor the show more into a timeless circumstance wherein the ‘woke’ isn’t as noticeable.
It may be a little woke, but it’s the best series around.
That is always a plus!
I hate “gather round the tv every Wed at 8pm” tv. Its so 1950’s. Have to figure out how to record this and start watching.
—I will watch “Yellowstone” to the end only to see if that bunch of murderous psychos all end up doing , at least, life without parole—
Yellowstone is good but is very predictable.
Don’t start watching season 4 until you watch 1-3.
My sister told us about it. I bought season 1 & 2, my husband and I got barely through episode 2 of season 1 and have not watched it since....... I guess we need to give it another try. Everyone is going on about how good it is. We were not seeing it. Found it boring
Make sure you get past the first episode of season one. My wife and I turned it off midway through, but we went back about six months later after hearing some churn about it. Glad we did, haven’t missed an episode since. It’s a good hour to just get lost in a program and it’s characters. You’ll either love it, or hate it...
Anyting but...
“There’s no way to stream a new episode right after it airs.”
I don’;t know about this. It seems there are multiple ways to watch past episodes.
What we had to endure that evening did not give me any incentive to watch further. Boring drama. But maybe it got better later on???
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