I liked Yellowstone Better When It Was Called Legends of the Fall.

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It took someone thirty years to answer Paula Cole’s question but it seems all the cowboys have gone to CBS. The khaki-est of middle America TV networks is now airing Yellowstone — “a desperate and threatened appeal to American identity and white masculinity.”¹

Real men lasso cattle thieves and grizzly bears. Real men read the Bible by firelight with…