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BeddyByes
Disney’s ‘BeddyByes’ may help parents of little ones start the wind-down process before bedtime.
After serving as a Navy SEAL, getting caught in heated land disputes, dealing with his father’s assassination and surviving his wife’s tragic death, Kayce Dutton is ready to settle down.
Selling most of his family’s land to Broken Rock (a Native American reservation) Dutton elects to retreat on the remainder of his land—the relatively small Montana ranch called East Camp. At East Camp, Dutton returns to the cowboy lifestyle of his youth and takes care of his teenage son, Tate.
But Dutton’s time of rest doesn’t last long.
When an old Navy buddy Pete Calvin visits, Dutton gets pulled into Calvin’s crew of U.S. Marshals on a mission.
At first, Dutton intends to make this a one-time engagement. But after a bombing at a political rally nearly kills Broken Rock leader Thomas Rainwater, Dutton is ready to do anything to discover who’s responsible. Alongside Calvin and Marshal team members Andrea Cruz, Belle Skinner and Miles Kittle, Dutton discovers a tangled conspiracy that threatens people on the Broken Rock Reservation–and perhaps many others.
Dutton already has a lot on his plate: the grief he feels for his wife; the responsibility he bears for his son; the baggage of his family history, grief for his wife and responsibility for his son weigh heavily on Dutton, but Calvin encourages him that “we owe it to the people we lost to make our lives mean something.” And Kayce Dutton hopes that by fighting crime with the U.S. Marshals, he’ll do something that really matters.
“No matter where I go, I end up on the wrong side of the fence,” Dutton says. Try as he may, Dutton struggles to escape his family’s troubled reputation and propensity for getting involved in violence.
In the same way, Marshals—CBS’ spinoff of the hit show Yellowstone—features content concerns that mirror those in the original series.
As was the case in Yellowstone, violence is a main concern in Marshals. Characters shoot guns and brawl, both of which often draw blood (and can, of course, result in death). In the first episode, a bomb nearly kills a man, and two characters engage in a fight involving a knife and gun that leaves one person dead and covered in blood. There are also references to kidnapping and racially motivated violence.
Although language is tamer thus far in the spinoff series, characters do utter profanity occasionally, including uses of “h—” and “a–.” Characters drink alcohol at times, too.
Compared to the original Yellowstone series with its harsh language and heavy sexual content, Marshals might feel like a breath of fresh, Montana air. But for families who want to avoid entertainment with profanity and violence, Marshals’ take on the Dutton family and Yellowstone Ranch still isn’t for them.
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Kayce Dutton reluctantly takes a break from his peaceful life at East Camp to help Pete Calvin with a U.S. Marshal mission. But when someone detonates a bomb at a political rally, Dutton wants to find out who left the bomb and why.
People fire guns at people, some of whom are killed or seriously injured. Blood often results from these gunshots. In a flashback war scene, explosions kill multiple people. A man aims his gun at a coyote. A man on a horse runs head first into a rope in his path, which causes him to fall roughly to the ground. After an explosion, a man is seen covered in blood. A man shoots someone in the chest, and blood covers the victim’s face and chest. Two male characters engage in a fistfight, and one of them uses a knife. Dutton tazes a man to make him divulge information.
Dutton finds a video of a woman and a young girl being held hostage. Calvin tells Kayce that fugitives in the area are preying on women in the Broken Rock Reservation. In the video, a man holds a gun to the woman’s head, and both captives are bound. A woman gets shot in the chest, but she sustains only a bruise due to her protective armor. A man threatens a child with a gun.
Characters use profanity including four uses of “h—” and one use of “a–.”
A man is seen without a shirt. Someone jokingly insults Calvin for having failed marriages. A woman wears a crop top. A man puts medicine on a woman’s chest.
Someone uses the phrase “evolve or die.” A character says that the land “may look like it’s God’s country, but the devil’s running free out here.” Calvin claims that the U.S. Marshals were his salvation. A character talks about Dutton staying connected to his dead wife’s “spirit.”
Someone claims—likely as a joke—that he purchased something from a “meth head.” People drink alcohol at a bar. As he cries, a man drinks alcohol and takes pills.
Disney’s ‘BeddyByes’ may help parents of little ones start the wind-down process before bedtime.
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