# Series you've recently watched, are now watching or have given up on

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**Post date:** [March 4, 2026, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8410 "2026-03-04T00:27:33Z")

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> [@ASL\_v2.0](#):
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> The Navy allows people to enlist with a BUD/S contract. We’re talking a standard 4-8 year enlistment contract.

They do. But then if you want to go into an alite unit (80% washout rate here) with the extra long and expensive training, they want more. Most Seals stay in for the whole 20 years.

> [@ASL\_v2.0](#):
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> And the reason Kayce is a Navy SEAL is… because that was his backstory in the original series as well?

Not according to series write ups. The Duttons are Sadistic, murderous assholes, and how anyone raised that way could possibly pass the rigorous psych profile they get is a big stretch. I watched two epi of 1923, and it led with them torturing and murdering 4 innocent sheepherders- and getting away with it- legally anyway. And stealing their sheep.

Note that Yellowstone ends in 2023, with Kayce-

> **[List of Yellowstone episodes | Season 5 (2022–2024)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yellowstone_episodes#Season_5_(2022%E2%80%932024))**
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> The two-hour series premiere of Yellowstone averaged 2.8 million viewers in live + same day and became the most-watched original scripted series telecast ever on Paramount Network (or its predecessor Spike). The premiere audience grows to nearly 4 million when the two encore airings of the premiere are factored in. The premiere audience more than doubled that of Paramount Network's first scripted drama series, Waco and more than tripled the debut viewership of Paramount Network's new comedy serie...

So in 2-3 years, Dutton finished his Navy Enlistment, Seals training and seals deployment?

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