Sheridan is that guy who makes shows for evil rural hogs about how evil rural hogs are cool and based actually and all the crimes and violence and misogyny they do is good, right?

EDIT: OK, i watched the rest of S03E01. fucking recockulous. i'll spare you all the play by play, but two things standout.

the second half of the episode involves The Team going to Ukraine to steal a russian guy in a bunker. this involves releasing attack dogs to maul North Korean soldiers. like 3 dogs kill probably a dozen DPRK troops in a trench, who are depicted as childish clowns that can't aim. they make it a point to show the dogs mauling koreans and pulling their bodies apart, multiple times. content warning, a dog gets stabbed but is evacuated. all non-US people are executed, even the unarmed, injured and surrendering. i guess this is supposed to be cool? sheridan also repeatedly wails this unarmed russian guy who has surrendered and is screaming in pain because it will apparently be easier to kidnap him if he's all fucked up, concussed, and scared. they do this before sloppily cutting a tracking device out of the guy's armpit, because apparently russia puts trackers into all their important dudes.

there's also an extended sequence of exposition where our boy, Taylor Sheridan, appears as "Cody" the old, super tactical genius special forces cia supersoldier in a battlefield bunker to explain to everyone how he's the only one who understands the tactics of the Ukraine-Russian border conflict so all the other tactical genius special forces cia supersoldiers must do whatever he says. they also have this amazing diorama/battlefield model with scale accurate structures set up where "Cody" explains how this cool op is going to go. apparently explosive drone swarm + attack dogs is the unstoppable combo. "Cody" being cool, explains that only he knows How Shit Is™ while exaggeratedly eating this grey goop-soup out of an unlabeled catfood tin and saying "brother" too much. i think he thinks it makes him look cool, like how brad pitt eats in scenes all the time to look casual compared to everybody else.

he cast himself in S02 as the same "old special forces soldier who knows everything" role as well, and it was legitimately the most self-indulgent b.s. i have ever seen in media. until this entire sequence in the first ep of S03.

seriously, most times a writer puts themselves into a story, they have the decency to make fun of themselves. this asshole is like, "no actually i'm the most coolest badass that u can't even dream to imagine."

what a fucking loser. i legitimately hope he takes a tumble on set during filming and breaks his entire shit.

like imagine if you blended every alarmist headline on OAN about the world outside the US and constructed reality from that chopped, incoherent and undifferentiated goop of american exceptionalist excretions. with high production values, fancy establishing shots, and apparently a pretty big budget for complex action sequences with guns, explosions, civilian/military vehicles, equipment and fight choreography. like, they seriously build this world and it is scary/violent! if you meet someone who loves this show, they should be monitored.

That paragraph sums up Sheridan very well. At this point I assume he's eventually going to become a GOP pol. I'd be surprised if he doesn't do that.

I watched the first two seasons. I watched in the hopes it would be escapism for me. s01 was enjoyable. But s02 became tedious. Here are some notes I wrote for myself about an episode of s02.

The Iranians are working with the Chinese? Sheridan doesn't even try to create half decent bad guys. This is cartoon shit!

Positive stuff about DUBYA! Sheridan is a propagandist when it comes to the republicans.

Sheridan's prone to write unrealistic dialog. He tends to make everybody into a sarcastic badass or sarcastic wannabe badass. She's in the hospital recovering from her serious injury. Her doctor advises extreme care and caution in her physical actions. He says:

"All I'll say is... the devil's showin' aces. Think it through before you playin' your hand - you know what I mean?"

He sounded like a Marine or one of her CIA guys.

A spy thriller that follows the leader of a CIA team that enlists female operatives, who are known as Lionesses, to go undercover in the war on terror.

Taylor Sheridan

So this is the slop stew of distilled liberalism. Zoe really knows how to pick her projects.