Apart from National Football League games, the series Yellowstone is the most watched show on television, consistently averaging more than 12 million viewers per episode. Yet, in its five years of production it has never been nominated for a single industry award in any category. In that same period, the series Succession has garnered non-stop awards and accolades. Succession’s highest-rated episode got only about a tenth of the viewers that a typical Yellowstone episode did in the 2022 season. All this despite that Yellowstone is only available on one source while Succession is available across a number of streaming platforms. Granted that award shows are critic-based and not view-based, but one has to wonder if this disparity has underlying significance. Continue reading →