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Mating Season
‘Mating Season’ is yet another raunchy, crass, excessively explicit production from the mind of Nick Kroll, creator of ‘Big Mouth.’
Not even nature will let the famous Dutton family rest.
After a wildfire destroys their Montana property, Beth Dutton, her husband, Rip Wheeler, and their adopted son, Carter, start a new life on a ranch in Rio Paloma, Texas. But when they make the move, trouble moves with them.
At first, only a competitive business owner seems to stand in their way. Beulah Jackson owns 10 Petal Ranch—the largest ranch in the area—and she also owns the only slaughterhouse in town. Beulah isn’t interested in doing fair business with the Duttons. In fact, the only deal Beulah seems interested in is taking the Duttons’ ranch for herself.
But for a Dutton family, dealing with greedy business owners is old hat.
And the family navigates their new home’s other challenges, too. At first, Carter struggles to adjust to a new high school, but a budding romance with a girl named Oreana might help him feel at home. Although Rip’s ranch hand Azul tells him that the Jackson ranch employs almost all the other qualified hands, Azul helps Rip find another employee named Zachariah. And Beth manages to befriend a veterinarian named Everett McKinney—who seems to have insider knowledge about Rio Paloma’s complicated ranching world.
Beth and Rip believe they could create a peaceful, simple life in Texas.
Unfortunately, there’s more to Beulah Jackson than aggressive business practices. Her nefarious secrets threaten to disrupt Beth and Rip’s dream of peace. Mother to the violent Rob-Will and conniving Joaquin, Beulah will do anything to protect her ranch, wealth and family legacy—even if that means helping her sons get away with murder (literally).
Based on the popular show Yellowstone, the Dutton Ranch spinoff on Paramount+ continues Beth Dutton’s story. Although Beth has moved to a new home, the show’s content concerns have moved along with her.
As in Yellowstone, the Duttons can’t seem to avoid violence. People get in fist fights, men brutally beat other men and animals are seen dead or dying. A few people threaten others with guns, and someone shoots a person in the head, which draws blood. At one point, Rip discovers a body, covered in blood.
Characters use harsh profanity (including over 40 uses of the f-word in the first episode alone), the s-word and misuses of God’s name. People also make sexual innuendos and crude jokes.
In various scenes, people go to bars and drink alcohol—sometimes in moderation and sometimes in excess. There’s also a scene in which an underage boy is tricked into purchasing alcohol for a group of high schoolers. Later, the same underage boy smokes marijuana with a high school girl.
While romance isn’t the center of the story, a few scenes feature sensual content that includes sensual encounters (sometimes between underage participants) and near nudity.
It seems the Yellowstone franchise is building its own sprawling empire on Paramount+—with both Marshals and Dutton Ranch finding success on the streaming platform. Like the other installments in the franchise, Dutton Ranch includes some positive messages about loyalty and family, but gritty violence, adult language, substance use and sexual content take primary residence in the series.
After a fire destroys Beth and Rip’s ranch in Montana, they start a new life in Rio Paloma, Texas. While Carter adjusts to high school, Beth and Rip find their place in the Rio Paloma ranching business. Unlike in Montana, the Dutton name doesn’t guarantee their ranch’s success—especially when rich ranch owner Beulah Jackson seems to rule Rio Paloma ranching all while concealing the nefarious trouble lurking in her family.
Characters frequently use harsh profanity including 42 uses of the f-word (paired with “mother” three times), nine uses of the s-word, three uses of “h—,” four uses of “a–,” 3 uses of “a–hole,” 3 uses of “g–d–n,” two uses of “d–k,” three uses of “b–ch” and multiple misuses of God’s and Jesus’ names.
It’s implied that a man attempts to sexually assault a girl. Later, Carter, intervenes by kicking him to the ground and punching the man repeatedly.
A character shoots a man in the head, killing him. The character then asks for help covering up the murder. Rip rescues a calf from a wildfire and emerges badly burned and covered in ash. A man shoots wild pigs offscreen. A high school girl jokes about suicide. A man threatens Rip with a gun, so Rip punches him in the face. Someone finds a partially buried, bloody corpse.
Someone holds a dead snake. Beth finds an injured horse, impaled by a sharp object. The animal’s bloody chest and face is seen, and its blood gets onto Beth. Later, a doctor inserts a needle into the horse’s body.
Someone makes sexual innuendos and crude jokes, meant to bully and belittle another person. A woman wears a cleavage-showing dress around her home. A husband and wife shower together. The vague outline of bodies are seen, but nothing critical is shown—though several shots come close to revealing the woman’s breasts.
An underage girl manipulates an underage boy into buying her and her friends alcohol. Adults drink alcohol at a bar. A man smokes a cigarette. Someone gets drunk and acts violently as a result. Two adults drink alcohol together. A man uses dangerous drugs. A character drinks a large amount of alcohol directly from the bottle.
High schoolers tease Carter at school.
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