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“Yellowstone” and “Succession” aren’t really birds of a feather, but it’s easy to see why people tend to compare them all like-for-like. In a sense, both dramas are family dramas centered around a King Lear-esque patriarch whose children vie for control of the inheritance (in the case of Taylor Sheridan’s wildly popular neo-Western, Yellowstone’s Dutton At the same time as the farm), a vulture was circling from outside. Personally, I love how Connor Roy from “Succession” spends years on his fancy “ranch” in New Mexico before trying to steal the Dutton family’s land to strengthen the salt of the earth. I could even imagine a crossover that would. Public perception of his next sure-to-fail presidential bid. (The Conheads would completely devour such nonsense.)
Both series similarly begin with an unexpected breakdown in the inheritance chain. In the case of “Yellowstone,” Lee Dutton (Dave Annable), the eldest son of cowboy-hat-wearing paternal family John Dutton III (Kevin Costner), shockingly dies in the show’s first episode, “Daybreak.” , throwing the Dutton family into turmoil. . His efforts to stop Lee’s permanent murder prove to be futile, and this earns Annable the opportunity to have a recurring role on one of the most-watched (arguably the most-watched) television series of the streaming era. It also meant missing out. On the plus side, he was able to make enough of an impression on Sheridan that the prolific writer and producer was able to give her a more prominent role in Sheridan’s hit spy thriller show, The Lioness.
Plus, thanks to the CIA drama, Annable finally has her natural salt-and-pepper hair on Sheridan’s Papa Television Universe (as we’ll refer to his numerous series until further notice). I was able to accept color. At Costner’s request, he was not allowed to do so during his brief time in “Yellowstone.”
Kevin Costner didn’t want to look ‘old’ next to Dave Annable
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It’s perfectly natural for a man in his 40s like Annable to be saltier than pepper when it comes to hair color (…written by someone staring at a barrel in middle age), but Costner in his 60s… Apparently not. It’s jarring to see a gray-haired son on screen in “Yellowstone.” At the show’s Season 2 premiere event, when explaining to People that she didn’t need to dye her “Lioness” hair, Annable recalled:
“I asked them to[keep their natural hair color]and they said yes. I asked them for ‘Yellowstone,’ and God bless[Kevin]Costner. He said, ‘No.’ , you’re going to dye it.” I don’t want to look that old. “I thought, ‘Oh, that makes sense.’ ”
Just to be clear, John Dutton III is only a few years younger than Costner (who was 63 when Yellowstone premiered in 2018), so it’s possible that his eldest son was already Costner. There was never sex either. By the time I met him, my hair was gray. It’s also a missed opportunity to more normalize how people actually age in movies and TV, and that Costner could let go of his ego a little and make him actually look older like everyone else. There’s also something to be said about what might have worked. Like Harrison Ford all the way back in the 90s. It would have increased the show’s sense of realism, at least when it comes to its depiction of modern American ranchers.
Then again, “Yellowstone” has always focused more on melodrama than on being legitimately accurate, so it might be a little foolish to expect such nuanced verisimilitude here. yeah. In any case, we’ll find out what fate awaits John and the rest of the surviving Duttons when “Yellowstone” Season 5, Part 2 premieres on Paramount Network on November 10, 2024 .
