> That might be a slight facade, because the dynamics of the family itself, which the show revolves around, are not conservative.

I don't even know what this means.

>Surface level viewers will see the things you mentioned because that is as far as they want to go.

I mean...I just gave you the overarching plot of every season? Not really sure how they are surface level.

>Kevin Costner is behind this, and he's probably politically diverse.

His speech literally used the phrase "the wall that progression bashes against". A speech that is then in the next episode called "prophetic". I don't know how much more clear that can be.

>People that paint this as right leaning or pandering

It is right leaning. Every single main antagonist so far has been some sort of liberal coastal elite, with the exception of the Texas brothers who then end up being white supremacist elites. The antagonists for season 1 magically see the errors of their ways after understanding the Montana way of life and teaming up with the Duttons in season 2. Monica has multiple scenes showing her as a screechy liberal shrew pulling Kayce from his family legacy while still happily spending the family's money. The entire Yellowstone brand plotline is a literal cult/gang that you have to kill to get into and have to die to get out of. Jamie is repeatedly shown to be a spinless, cowardly pussy because of his elite coastal education to the point where he cries multiple times on screen begging for his family's acceptance. And then, he's actually SUCH a pussy, it's genetic and he was never really part of the family anyway. Because that makes sense. Every problem is solved with Beth walking in bitchily or Rip punching the issue and multiple women who stand in the way of John succumb to his magical cowboy dick.

Talk about a surface level understanding of a show, I could easily go on and on.