Quentin Tarantino Basically Thinks 'Yellowstone' Is Disposable Content

Quentin Tarantino recently went on The Joe Rogan Experience, which honestly, is the perfect venue for him. I don’t know if you know this about Quentin, but he’s a bit of a talker. Just a tad. So, having three hours to blab into the stoned-out face of a walking thumb in a Henley is practically his natural habitat.

While there, Tarantino doubled down on his love for Joker: Folie à Deux because he’s a man who appreciates movies. In his book, they kick the ass out of TV, and yes, that includes Yellowstone. In what was surely an emotional rollercoaster for Taylor Sheridan, Tarantino admitted to liking the show. At first.

Via IndieWire:

“I didn’t really get around to watching ‘Yellowstone’ the first three years or so. Then I watch the first season and I’m like ‘Wow, this is f*cking great!’ I’ve always been a big Kevin Costner fan, he’s f*cking wonderful in this.’ And I get really caught up in the show, I’m having a great time watching,” he said. “And the first season, I’m kind of talking like, ‘Oh, this is like a big movie.”

He continued, “While I’m watching it, I’m compelled. But at the end of the day it’s just a soap opera. They introduce you to a bunch of characters, you learn their backstories, you know everybody’s connection with everyone else.. and then everything else is just your connection to the soap opera.”

As Tarantino rambles on, his major sticking point is that Western movies will build to some sort of climax whereas Yellowstone started to drag on forever with no discernible endpoint except, well, more Yellowstone.

“There’s a payoff to it. But there’s not a payoff on this stuff,” Tarantino said to Rogan’s expressionless coconut of a skull. “There’s just more interconnectional drama. And while I’m watching it, that’s good enough. But when it’s over … I don’t remember any of the details of it.”

Interestingly, Tarantino did not get into Taylor Sheridan inserting himself into Yellowstone, presumably because that’s one hell of a glass house. We’re talking about a guy whose character in Pulp Fiction got to back-talk Samuel L. Jackson as if they were equals. Is that on par with making Bella Hadid your on-screen girlfriend while flirting with Beth Dutton? Honestly, maybe!