{"id":1197380,"date":"2022-01-07T14:50:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T19:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1197380"},"modified":"2022-01-07T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T19:50:23","slug":"the-show-isnt-woke-meghan-mccain-explains-yellowstone-becoming-a-smash-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-show-isnt-woke-meghan-mccain-explains-yellowstone-becoming-a-smash-success\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Show Isn\u2019t Woke\u2019 Meghan McCain Explains \u2018Yellowstone\u2019 Becoming A Smash Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fthe-show-isnt-woke-meghan-mccain-explains-yellowstone-becoming-a-smash-success%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=1197380&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 is one of the most-watched shows on television right now and Hollywood execs can\u2019t figure out why. With network TV and streaming services, viewers have never had more options available to them, which makes it that much harder for studios to create a hit. But Taylor Sheridan\u2019s cowboy drama somehow captured the nation\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative personality Meghan McCain has a theory why \u201cYellowstone\u201d is such a huge success. According to her, it\u2019s because the series appeals to the majority of Americans who are fed up with Hollywood pushing a progressive agenda in every single show and movie. That\u2019s one running theory why \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home\u201d was such a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/spider-man-no-way-home-suggests-movie-fans-are-fed-up-with-woke-propaganda\">mega hit<\/a>; because unlike other contemporary superhero movies, it didn\u2019t go woke.<\/p>\n<p>McCain penned a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10376751\/MEGHAN-MCCAIN-Costners-non-woke-Yellowstone-captures-true-soul-America.html\">piece<\/a> for The Daily Mail explaining her thoughts on \u201cYellowstone\u2019s\u201d popularity. She compared the show to HBO\u2019s \u201cSuccession,\u201d a drama which is a lot more typical in terms of entertainment fare these days. It was created by \u201cavowed leftist Adam McKay.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McCain wrote, \u201cWe live in an era where what is considered a critical hit often ends up on one cover after another, winning Hollywood awards many times over, while at the same time barely breaking over a few million viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She went on to explain how \u201cYellowstone\u201d is a \u201cbonafide commercial success\u201d but lacks all the splashy thinkpieces, celebrity promotion, and magazine cover stories like \u201cSuccession\u201d gets. And the country-Western drama is still breaking records in spite of that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The former \u201cView\u201d co-host says this all proves how, \u201cthe appetite among Americans for tales of the West is still alive and well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And while McCain predicts the series probably won\u2019t be nominated for major awards, it is going to continue drawing bigger and bigger audiences by nature of the content.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe show isn\u2019t woke, it isn\u2019t trying to lecture anyone about everything that is wrong with our culture,\u201d she writes. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t portray the elitist perspective of coastal television writers and where they think America should be going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is critically celebrated in Hollywood and the media is more determined by the values and tastes of television writers, than the tastes of the masses. The dominant Hollywood, left media cohort should be asking: Why does something like this happen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She goes on to say how characters on \u201cYellowstone\u201d are complex and interesting rather than insulting, inaccurate caricatures of Midwesterners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA major part of the answer is that Americans love Westerns, and people in the heartland like having their culture, lifestyle and history reflected in entertainment \u2013 and not to just have it denigrated,\u201d McCain continued. \u201cMost Americans don\u2019t live in the blue bubbles of urban communities where Hollywood focuses their energies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She concluded, \u201cThey enjoy entertainment with values that they share and characters that they can relate to \u2013 and if that\u2019s something you\u2019d rather ignore as a leftist in media, well, then maybe it\u2019s you who is living in the bubble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, some \u201cYellowstone\u201d fans have accused the series of heading in a direction that\u2019s too progressive, including the addition of Piper Picabo as Summer Higgins in season 4. The cast addition was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1467189062863892490\">touted<\/a> as an \u201cAntifa character\u201d when Picabo admitted Sheridan wrote her in to highlight \u201ca story of civil disobedience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But even with these criticisms and overall underwhelming reviews for season 4 overall, \u201cYellowstone\u201d annihilated viewership records. The season 4 finale attracted an incredible 9.3 million viewers.<\/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 is one of the most-watched shows on television right now and Hollywood execs can\u2019t figure out why. With network TV and streaming services, viewers have never had more options available to them, which makes it that much harder for studios to create a hit. But Taylor Sheridan\u2019s cowboy drama somehow captured the nation\u2019s attention. &#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-1197380","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\/1197380","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=1197380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197380\/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=1197380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}