This Sci-Fi Western Offers a Quiet Rebuke to em Yellowstone /em

This post contains spoilers for Outer Range and Yellowstone. Some viewers of Outer Range's first season may have been focused on parsing the Amazon Prime series's Lost-style mysteries: What is up with the big, swirling time hole in Royal Abbott's pasture? Why did Rebecca Abbott, his daughter-in-law, vanish without a trace? What does Autumn, the charismatic hippie camping on Royal's land, want with the Abbott family? I had a different question about the sci-fi Western: What the heck is this show doing with Taylor Sheridan's megahit Yellowstone?