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Saar13 t1_iye7k2v wrote

“‘Tulsa King’ scored as the #1 new series of the year, topping all others including the ‘Game of Thrones’ sequel ‘House of the Dragon,’ with its preview on Paramount Network, and on Paramount+, it shattered records, driving us to our biggest new sign-up day in history – which is why we instantly greenlit season two,” said Chris McCarthy, president & CEO of Paramount Media Networks & MTV Entertainment Studios.

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Janderson2494 t1_iye95m7 wrote

That's actually crazy. Sly still got it!

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lord_pizzabird t1_iyecseu wrote

Yellowstone also hit 15 million viewers for the new season premiere. It's going a bit under the radar among TV nerds, but it seems like Paramount is blowing up atm.

Might be watching the rise of a new HBO Now.

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sneakyxxrocket t1_iyeivh9 wrote

This isn’t mean spirited at all but all my boomer relatives at thanksgiving were non stop recommending Yellowstone. It’s basically Cattle farmer game of thrones

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Mikey5time t1_iyelqf4 wrote

That’s why it already has two spin-offs.

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lord_pizzabird t1_iyf0zfk wrote

Three technically. 6666, 1883, and 1922.

Sidenote, I wish they would ditch the 4 numbers thing for spin-offs. It's cool but is going to get rel confusing if this continues.

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BOEJlDEN t1_iyf5go7 wrote

Is 6666 set in the distant future?

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lord_pizzabird t1_iyf747f wrote

No, but you'd think so given their naming scheme for spin-offs.

6666, Pronounced "four sixes" follows another ranch in the Yellowstone universe that specializes in training horses. It's also a real ranch IRL that the Showrunner, Taylor Sheridan recently acquired for $320million (he's doing pretty well financially lol).

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BOEJlDEN t1_iyf8fam wrote

Goddamn dude is making bank

Wish he’d go back to making movies tbh, I love Wind River, Hell or High Water and Sicario

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mlavan t1_iyeyrrg wrote

Technically three if you include Mayor of Kingstown

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lord_pizzabird t1_iyf14km wrote

I don't mean to make this about politics, but I think it's also notable that they went on to elect a well-known television personality to office, when they finally reached the peak of their power.

It's a generation of people born and raised in the shadow of Vietnam, America's first televised war and raised in the era of cable tv. Their whole lives revolved from the start to finish around televisions.

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sim21521 t1_iyef8jl wrote

>Yellowstone also hit 15 million viewers for the new season premiere. It's going a bit under the radar among TV nerds, but it seems like Paramount is blowing up atm.
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>Might be watching the rise of a new HBO Now.

For me paramount plus has always just been the new star trek network. The shows have been middling, but at least it puts Trek back on "TV". Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks have been particularly good shows to me though.

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lord_pizzabird t1_iyf1cci wrote

Interesting. I have it for Yellowstone, but totally forgot about Star Trek.

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Valuable_Experience t1_iyezr4o wrote

On Cable though......streaming NOT a chance. 30M average for HOTD.....Yellowstone or any paramount + show isn't touching those numbers. It makes for good headlines though.

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send3squats2help t1_iyef3c0 wrote

That doesn’t make any sense to me. It is a pretty cringy watch.

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MinnesotaNoire t1_iyefc2g wrote

>I don't understand how people like things that are different from the things I like.

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send3squats2help t1_iyeg80a wrote

It just seems like a complete miss, I seemingly am the demographic this show was made for, late 30s male, huge stalone fan, grew up watching rambo and rocky- i even love the fan service expendables… And the premise of this show is: old tough guy doesn’t understand “woke” stuff- he strong-arms a legal pot shop and the owner is cool with it, and they’re buddies… and he just makes like “kids these days are so crazy” references… I don’t know it’s not that i just didn’t like it, it seems so utterly terrible, it’s mind blowing that it’s their number 1 show and are desperate for more episodes…

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CorporateSympathizer t1_iyem6r0 wrote

If you watch episode 2, he actually justifies his cut by negotiating a better deal for the business (and the numbers suggest profit margins greater than the 20% cut he's taking).

I think the pot shop owner just wants to smoke and chill and he warmed up to the idea of Sly taking over the "finer points of business".

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wakingup_withwolves t1_iyemasn wrote

the scene in the car when he’s high is the only time i remember it being slightly old-tough-guy-doesn’t-understand-woke-stuff. i was also worried that was gonna be a major thing in the show, but that’s really the only part like that i can remember. there is a slight element of Phones Bad to the show, but i feel like it’s not extrapolated enough to really be a problem. it’s more just like this guy just did 25 years in prison, of course he doesn’t know that you book an Uber on a phone app.

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qtx t1_iyerehk wrote

> It just seems like a complete miss

Someone is really upset their fav show got beat as best new show of the year.

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send3squats2help t1_iyet23y wrote

huh? no, i don’t even know what my favorite show is, but it’s probably not even from this network. My top shows in no particular order for the year are probably: House of the Dragon, Andor, the Old Man, Peacemaker, Slow Horses, Severance, and Night Sky. I was just genuinely baffled how anyone liked Tulsa King in particular, as my impression of it was that it was embarrassingly bad. Just weird, I guess. I REALLY WANTED TO LIKE IT.

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