That’s on par with the science fiction stuff of the time. It’s on part with Little House on the Prairie and Hercules. Don’t really need production values if you have an interesting story and half-decent acting.

Thanks! That channel is full of older shows.

The producer is an actual cowboy (owns the massive 3 Sixes ranch in Texas) and most of the extras and stuntmen are actual ranchers/cowboys. Problem is that even if you staff the upper management with based people, you still have to actually hire actors. Some stuff slips through, but it typically gets portrayed as stupid/foolish by other characters. Main points:

Main female character portrays herself as a "YASS QUEEN SLAY" girlboss. In reality, she's utterly fucked up because she got pregnant as a teen, and the doctor botched it and sterilized her. The fact that she'll never have kids has broken her, and she's admitted that. She admits to one of the male leads that she wishes she had kept the baby (it was his) and that had they gotten married as teens and just run away, both of them would probably be better of and more well adjusted.

Father figure and owner of the ranch is openly anti-progress and anti-leftist. He literally runs a political campaign in later seasons by stating that his job will be to resist external influences, stop the "invasion" by people not from their state, and to roll back his predecessor's "reforms." He also has a wonderful scene where he rips a bunch of vegans who decided to protest "MEAT IS MURDER" at a stockyard.

Father figure ends up sleeping with lead protester because she has that reaction we all know and love where lefty women have their first real wet pussy when they meet a not-soyboy for the first time. Daughter and protester walk in on each other at breakfast... and daughter immediately begins shitting on her. Was it nice finally fucking a real man, our kitchen has real food, if you want to have a wheatgrass smoothie go eat with the cows, etc., etc.

At one point, one of the ranch foremen decides that he's going to solve their cowboy shortage by hiring a few female ropers. This goes all sorts of sideways. End result is disunity, fighting, loss of productivity, and an ass chewing by the father figure where he reminds the foreman that women don't belong everywhere.

Overall, the show has a lot of really good points, but it is made in Current_Year+9, so it's got bad bits, too.

I guess that’s one way of looking at it lol. When the show started it became popular In red states so a lot of left leaning media would call it a red state show