Yellowstone Season 2
Writer and Director Taylor Sheridan and actor Kevin Costner's epic, neo-western series "Yellowstone" tantalizes with every kind of lurid plot element. There's lust, murder, revenge, and, of course, buckets of money at risk of disappearing. There are cowboys in white hats and cowboys in black hats. There are nefarious white men persecuting Native Americans, and there are nefarious Native Americans giving it right back. The drama continues in Season 2 with more infighting and more at stake.
Billionaire John Dutton (Costner) fights harder than ever to hold onto his ranch, the largest and most powerful of its kind in North America, and he does so at the risk of losing everyone he loves, and even his own life. Though he seems to be keeping his colon cancer at bay, an emergency with a perforated ulcer almost takes his life, and he is only saved by the skin of his teeth after his veterinarian rushes in and saves his life. But even death's door doesn't temper John's relentless plotting and machinations.
Because John's ranch is surrounded on all sides by ambitious and ever-competing organizations — land developers, a reservation, and the government's own National Park — John task is riskier than ever. Seeing his own son Jamie (Wes Bentley), the Attorney General, as a risk, John now turns against him, working to keep him out of office by finding another candidate to run against him. While the biggest risk is actually John's daughter Beth, who manipulates right and left, calculating a plan to buy up as much land as she can get her hands on so that she can eventually push her father out.
John relies on his sensitive and emotionally unpredictable son Kayce (Luke Grimes), and Kayce risks everything, putting his marriage and family at stake, to please his father. Kayce's wife Monica (Kelsey Asbille) has all the resources she needs to leave her husband, beginning with a new job that offers housing at the local university. But will her heart let her stay away from the man she loves?
Meanwhile, Chief Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) works to expand his casino onto John's land, and Dan Jenkins (Danny Huston) schemes to nose his way onto government property.
The cinematography in this series is spellbinding, with taut animal and fight sequences and larger-than-life landscapes of the American West. The themes are cleverly topical and to the point in this series, promoting blue state politics within red state plotlines.
This Blu-ray collection includes over three hours of bonus footage, including a new interview with Kevin Costner, on-set footage, a behind-the-scenes making of featurette, candid interviews, deleted and extended scenes and more.
"Yellowstone: Season 2"
Blu-ray
$39.98