Taylor Sheridan's hit series Yellowstone has flipped the common Western trope of light versus dark cowboy hats on its head.
The Big Picture Have you ever noticed the different colored hats in old Westerns and the different characters who wear them? Perhaps you've noted the light vs. dark standard and how most of these tales follow it. Well, come Taylor Sheridan's hit Paramount series Yellowstone, this trope was flipped on its head by a plethora of characters who don't neatly identify with good or evil.
In fact, this is where the traditional moniker for a Western villain, "black hat," comes from. This name has been applied to various characters throughout film history, though one of the most bizarre comes from the 2011 action horror flick Priest, where Karl Urban's villainous character is known only as "Black Hat.
One might expect the Duttons and their allies to all wear light-colored hats while their adversaries wear dark ones, but that isn't exactly the case in Yellowstone. Sure, Kevin Costner's John Dutton wears a lighter hat when we first meet him in "Daybreak," but by the fifth season, he's sporting a darker one in its place.
Other characters such as Kayce are a bit more morally ambiguous, but because of the way that he sees himself–particularly his time in the U.S. military overseas and what he's done for his father's empire–he almost always wears a darker shade of cowboy hat on his head. And then there's John, who went from wearing lighter hats at the start of the series to darker ones exclusively by Season 3. Over time, John's own self-perception has changed.
But Teal Beck isn't the only Yellowstone antagonist to go full dark. There are two other antagonists in particular that embody the black hat archetype perfectly, one of them being Wade Morrow . Wade is one of the primary antagonists of the third season, and he's particularly malicious toward the Duttons and their clan. Unafraid to get his hands dirty, Wade pushes the line on more than one occasion and even sends some men to attack and nearly kill a few of the ranch hands.
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