Streaming’s favourite pack of ranchers made famous from Taylor Sheridan’s epic drama series Yellowstone are back on screens yet again with another spin-off, reports streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.

The Duttons just won’t die. Well, figuratively speaking. anyway.

Streaming’s favourite pack of ranchers made famous from Taylor Sheridan’s epic drama series Yellowstone are back on screens yet again with another spin-off.

What number is this now?

It’s easy to lose track but Dutton Ranch (streaming on Paramount Plus) is the fourth Yellowstone spin-off show. Yes, the fourth.

For those unfamiliar with the modern western hit that is Yellowstone, the show follows the infamous Dutton family and their iron grip on the biggest and most profitable cattle ranch in America, a coveted stretch of land that has been passed down their bloodline for decades.

Patriarch John Dutton (Kevin Costner) leads a ruthless existence as he tries to protect his family’s way of life from land developers, oil tycoons, politicians and an Indian reservation that all lay claim to what’s beneath their feet.

After wrapping up its fifth and final season in 2024 it seems fans still couldn’t get enough.

More than 11 million people tuned in on the night the finale first streamed. That’s almost more than double the number that watched the show in its first season, which started in 2018. Producers knew this horse had plenty of race still to run.

Since then, Yellowstone spin-offs have gone as far back as 140 years before the events of the main show to tell the story of the Dutton family from generations past.

However, this new series is set in the future. Dutton Ranch follows Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler as they leave behind their bloody past in Montana to try and start a new life in south Texas.

Still trying to come to terms with the events of Yellowstone, they attempt to spark success with a new cattle ranch.

But when they discover dark secrets lying beneath their chosen piece of land, it brings uninvited guests that threatens the way of life they’ve fought hard to carve out.

Look, it’s essentially the same deal.

Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser are back in the leading roles here, bringing the rugged charisma over from the original series.

Big fans of Yellowstone will find more of the same here and, it seems, the producers are galloping away with more seasons and spin-offs yet.

At this stage it’s approaching Star Wars levels of spin-off content.

Maybe Straw Wars would be more appropriate here though.

A MORE offbeat choice on Netflix this month, best-picture nominee Bugonia has just started its streaming run.

This bizarre comedy-drama comes from Yorgos Lanthimos, the lauded director behind Poor Things and The Favourite.

Like those two that came before it, Bugonia stars Emma Stone in a role she once again is absurdly committed to.

A scene in this film where her head is shaved by two crazy captors is actually real. Wouldn’t want stuff that take up.

I’m getting ahead of myself though.

In Bugonia Stone plays Michele Fuller, the CEO of a mega pharmaceutical company that dominates America’s medical landscape.

She’s rich, powerful and controversial, particularly in the eyes of conspiracy theorist Teddy Gatz (Jesse Plemmoms) who believes Fuller is actually an alien in human disguise who has come to take over the world.

Enlisting the help of his brother, Gatz devises a plot to kidnap the big pharma boss and reveal who she truly is.

Fuller’s only way out? To play along with Gatzs’ bizarre delusions until the right moment to flee.

There’s an amusing focus on the language of corporate speak and its awkward attempts to sound natural yet at the same time sounding anything but human.

Gatz, an amateur beekeeper, believes Fuller’s talk of “streamlining processes” and “hitting KPI’s” as all but the dialect of an extra terrestrial trying to brainwash the masses. 

One moment hilarious, the next edge of your seat, it’s a surreal ride but worth the entry ticket.