Quentin Tarantino Says ‘There’s Not a Payoff’ on TV Shows Like ‘Yellowstone’: When It’s Over ‘It’s Out of My Head. It’s Completely Gone’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Quentin Tarantino was a recent guest on “The Joe Rogan Experience” and spent a considerable amount of time reflecting on the current relationship between television and film.

He argued that even a TV show that he loves to watch like “Yellowstone” can hardly compare to the power of a good movie. In Tarantino’s eyes, “Yellowstone” is just a soap opera that lacks real emotional payoff. “Everybody talks about how television is now.

It’s pretty good, I gotta say. It’s pretty good now. But it’s still television to me,” Tarantino said. “And what’s the difference between television and a good movie?

Because a lot of the TV now has the patina of a good movie. There are using cinematic language to get you caught up in it.” “I’ll use an example of a show: ‘Yellowstone.’ I didn’t get around to watching it the first three years or so and then I watched the first season and I thought, ‘Wow, this is fucking great.