{"id":1194034,"date":"2022-01-06T13:04:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1194034"},"modified":"2022-01-06T13:04:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:04:59","slug":"yellowstone-season-4-finale-draws-record-audience-despite-fans-feeling-mostly-underwhelmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yellowstone-season-4-finale-draws-record-audience-despite-fans-feeling-mostly-underwhelmed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Yellowstone\u2019 Season 4 Finale Draws Record Audience Despite Fans Feeling Mostly Underwhelmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyellowstone-season-4-finale-draws-record-audience-despite-fans-feeling-mostly-underwhelmed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1194034&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cYellowstone\u201d fans didn\u2019t have the nicest things to say about the latest season of the hit show. After the heart-pounding season 3 finale, the country-Western drama had a lot to live up to in the fourth season, it\u2019s true. Many viewers are saying the narrative lost focus and the finale, which aired January 2, left a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n<p>But even this ho-hum reception wasn\u2019t enough to kill the ratings. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/01\/yellowstone-season-4-finale-ratings-highs-record-kevin-costner-paramount-network-1234904529\/\">Deadline<\/a>, the season 4 finale smashed records with 9.3 million total viewers in Live+Same Day. This represents an 81% jump compared to the Season 3 finale, which boasted 5.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>That number is also a huge increase over the \u201cYellowstone\u201d season 4 premiere, which pulled in 8 million total viewers. The finale results were enough to make the series the most-watched telecast on cable since \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d season 8 premiere on AMC in October 2017, which had 11.4 million viewers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And now Deadline reported that this makes \u201cYellowstone\u201d the number one series of 2021 across broadcast, cable, and premium in both the coveted adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 demographics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Yellowstone\u2019 continues to shatter records with more than 11 million viewers tuning into the season finale, proving we\u2019ve hit a cultural nerve \u2013 from the center of the country to each of the coasts \u2013 and still have lots of room to grow on linear,\u201d Chris McCarthy, President and CEO of ViacomCBS Media Networks told the publication.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur strategy to franchise \u2018Yellowstone\u2019 into a universe of series to fuel growth for Paramount+ is already exceeding expectations with \u20181883\u2019 and \u2018Mayor of Kingstown\u2019 proving to be two of the top titles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at least one reviewer called the season 4 finale \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/in-yellowstones-underwhelming-season-finale-the-dutton-1848295935\">underwhelming<\/a>,\u201d which was a sentiment shared by much of the viewing audience. The major complaints seemed to be that the action and violence, though pervasive, is never high stakes, with resolutions that come about too quickly and easily. Some fans are also fed up with certain storylines that focus on characters they aren\u2019t interested in seeing.<\/p>\n<p>In the finale, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/yellowstone-stars-react-to-beth-and-rips-season-4-finale-surprise-its-pretty-wild\">Beth and Rip get married<\/a> in a surprise ceremony after she kidnaps a priest at gunpoint to perform the ceremony. Meanwhile, Garrett Randall (Will Patton) dies. But even these twists in the action weren\u2019t enough to attract rave reviews like the end of season 3 did.<\/p>\n<p>Even as fans start to sour on \u201cYellowstone,\u201d the spinoff prequel \u201c1883\u201d is gaining momentum with the fan base. The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the premiere from Taylor Sheridan earned 6.4 million viewers, which was a series premiere record for Paramount Network. And that\u2019s not even including streaming numbers. This made \u201c1883\u201d the most-watched series premiere on cable in more than six years, falling in behind the 10 million people who tuned in for the 2015 premiere of \u201cFear the Walking Dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And even with less-than-stellar reviews, fans are still tuning into the original \u201cYellowstone\u201d as well. The series was renewed for a fifth season and is scheduled to begin filming in May.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYellowstone\u201d fans didn\u2019t have the nicest things to say about the latest season of the hit show. After the heart-pounding season 3 finale, the country-Western drama had a lot to live up to in the fourth season, it\u2019s true. Many viewers are saying the narrative lost focus and the finale, which aired January 2, left &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}