This is such a strange deal, and I can't tell if they're really smarter than I think they are, but I can't imagine trying to run any kind of right-leaning entertainment company having Taylor Sheridan, acknowledging that you have Taylor Sheridan by calling him a "singular genius and content creator" and then driving him away months later because you keep meddling in his creative work.

If I was trying to turn Paramount into a like right-leaning culture war friendly entertainment company, I would have given Taylor Sheridan whatever he wanted, and changed the name to "Paramount, brought to you by Taylor Sheridan".

I remember when this first started, I thought to myself, how are you going to bring back 80's style American jingoism with only one director doing it, then I find out it was worse then that, because they drove that one director away.