Sicario? Legendary movie. But that was a collaboration with Denis Villeneuve, so Sheridan wasn't the only heavy hitter on deck.
Wind River was all Taylor. Good movie and great gunfights, but it does show. The possibilities for the "mystery" are literally A or B. Elizabeth Olsen also kind of reprises the same kind of ingenue role as Emily Blunt from Sicario, but not to the same extent. Can't complain about the choice of actresses.
Everything else is soap opera with enough watchability to keep the audience on the slop train. If you have any, and I mean ANY common sense, this will immediately be manifest. Also for some strange reason, as soon as Sheridan starts writing for TV he loves his girlbosses. But there's plenty shameless red meat for the conservative crowd, so they keep watching.
Example: in one of the early Yellowstone episodes a cowboy saves a couple of idiot Asian tourists from a grizzly bear, but then they fall off a cliff and die anyway (lol). Also the main characters KO, kill, or diddle anyone they feel like at any time.
I adore Hell or High Water, what a no-holds-barred masculine film. You don't realise it until you watch some other current-day slop and then think back to just how grounded Hell or High Water was -- reminded me of the crime thrillers from the 1970s: all masculine and straight business.
Sicario? Legendary movie. But that was a collaboration with Denis Villeneuve, so Sheridan wasn't the only heavy hitter on deck.
Wind River was all Taylor. Good movie and great gunfights, but it does show. The possibilities for the "mystery" are literally A or B. Elizabeth Olsen also kind of reprises the same kind of ingenue role as Emily Blunt from Sicario, but not to the same extent. Can't complain about the choice of actresses.
Everything else is soap opera with enough watchability to keep the audience on the slop train. If you have any, and I mean ANY common sense, this will immediately be manifest. Also for some strange reason, as soon as Sheridan starts writing for TV he loves his girlbosses. But there's plenty shameless red meat for the conservative crowd, so they keep watching.
Example: in one of the early Yellowstone episodes a cowboy saves a couple of idiot Asian tourists from a grizzly bear, but then they fall off a cliff and die anyway (lol). Also the main characters KO, kill, or diddle anyone they feel like at any time.
Yeah, it's cool, but you don't play the same trick twice.
I adore Hell or High Water, what a no-holds-barred masculine film. You don't realise it until you watch some other current-day slop and then think back to just how grounded Hell or High Water was -- reminded me of the crime thrillers from the 1970s: all masculine and straight business.
The fat waitress comes close, but most of the female characters barely have that much screen time. It's great.