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- ASHTON KUTCHER’S NETFLIX SHOW, THE RANCH, IS UNLIKE ANYTHG ELSE ON TELEVISNBRASH AND OFF-PUTTG, THE RANCH IS ALSO BIZARRELY WATCHABLE.BY RICHARD LAWSONAPRIL 1, 2016COURTY OF NETFLIX/GREG GAYNESAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHAT IS THE WEIRST THG ABOUT THE RANCH, THE NEW SERI OM NETFLIX THAT BUTS, ALMOST LIKE SOME KD OF JOKE, ON APRIL 1? IS S OLD-SCHOOL, MULTI-M, LIVE STUD DIENCE-NS, WHICH IS THEN CUT WH SWEARS AND AN ABUNDANCE OF SEX TALK, BEE THIS IS NETFLIX AND ANYTHG GO? COULD BE. IS THE FACT THAT ASHTON KUTCHER, ACTOR AND PRODUCER AND BRAND AMBASSADOR AND TWTER PNEER, IS STARRG ON THE SHOW ALONGSI THREE-TIME OSR NOMEE AND LONGTIME HOLLYWOOD REFUGEE DEBRA WGER? THAT CERTALY MIGHT BE . OR IS THAT THE SHOW—WHICH ALSO STARS SAM ELLTT, DANNY MASTERSON, AND ELISHA CUTHBERT AS BLUE-LLAR, SMALL-TOWN COLORADO FOLKS—TRAS A KD OF SHABBY SERNS, WISTFUL OPENG CREDS AND ALL, THAT WE HAVEN’T SEEN THE LIK OF SCE MAYBE ROSEANNE? PERHAPS.BUT I’D SAY THE ODST THG ABOUT THE RANCH, WHICH WAS CREATED BY TWO AND A HALF MEN WRERS JIM PATTERSON AND DON REO, IS SIMPLY HOW PELLGLY WATCHABLE IS, ALL S MSY, MACHO, UNROKED REAL AMERINNS. IT’S UNLIKE ANYTHG ELSE ON TELEVISN, EVEN THOUGH SO MANY OF S FORMS ARE RE-PURPOSED OM TV SHOWS OM 20, 30, OR MORE YEARS AGO. IT SERV CRED, AT THE VERY LEAST, FOR DOG SOMETHG DIFFERENT AND STRANGE—EVEN IF THAT SOMETHG IS GIVG A SHOW WHOSE CHARACTERS, FOR THE MOST PART, REJECT DIFFERENCE AND STRANGENS.THE RANCH TAK PLACE THE FICTNAL TOWN OF GARRISON, WHERE KUTCHER’S COLT BENT, FAD HIGH-SCHOOL FOOTBALL STAR, HAS RETURNED TO LICK HIS WOUNDS AFTER A LONG STT STGGLG TO PLAY SEMI-PRO BALL. BOYISH AND HANDSOME HIS MID-30S, COLT IS ALL EGO AND LIBIDO, WHICH MEANS HE CLASH WH HIS STERN, LANIC RANCHER FATHER, BE, WHO ELLTT PLAYS WH HIS FAIAR ARCH ALOOFNS AND GRAVELLY, BASSO PROFUNDO TWANG. COLT’S GOT A NE’ER-DO-WELL BROTHER, ROOSTER, WHO NEVER LEFT THE RANCH AND TOMTS AROUND PICKG UP WHATEVER SCRAPS HE N. HE’S PLAYED BY MASTERSON, WHO RELI ON HIS AND KUTCHER’S ATTY RAPPORT OM THEIR THAT ’70S SHOW DAYS. AND THEN THERE’S WGER AS MAGGIE, BE’S TRANGED, HIPPIEISH WIFE, MOTHER OF THE TWO RAMBUNCT MAN-BOYS AND OWNER OF THE LOL BAR. SHE’S SENSIBLE AND STRAIGHT-TALKG AND LIK A LTLE WEED, BEG COLORADO AND ALL.SO THE BENTS L ABOUT, THE MA SETS BEG THE KCHEN-LIVG-ROOM OF THE RANCH HOE, THE PORCH OUTSI, AND THE BAR. COLT’S RE-ENTRY TO THIS MANLY ATMOSPHERE IS BUMPY—HE WEARS UGGS AND DO OTHER SISSY, CY STUFF—AND IS MA MORE SO WHEN HE NS TO HIS HIGH-SCHOOL SWEETHEART, ABBY, A SARSTIC, DOWN-TO-EARTH SCHOOL TEACHER PLAYED BY THE EVER UNRRATED CUTHBERT. COLT’S STILL GOT A THG FOR HER, AND LIKELY SHE FOR HIM, BUT SHE HAS A BOYIEND, SO COLT STEAD TAK UP WH A 22-YEAR-OLD RECENT FORMER STUNT OF ABBY’S. THE RANCH M A LOT OF JOK, AND I MEAN A LOT, OM S “HAVG SEX WH HOT YOUNG GIRLS” PLOTLE, WHICH IALLY SEEMS TO FLY THE FACE OF SOME OF THE SHOW’S AVOWED NSERVATIVE LEANGS.EXCEPT, THIS IS AT ROOT MORE A SHOW ABOUT HOLLYWOOD’S IA OF INTY POLICS, A SQUICKY, SOMETIM EMPTY GTURE TO A RED-BLOOD BASE THAT LIK THEIR MEN TO BE BEER- AND WHISKEY-GUZZLG OZE-HOUNDS AND THEIR WOMEN TO BE SWEET ’N’ SASSY. SO THE BOYS GET TO JOKE A LOT ABOUT SCREWG TEENAGE GIRLS— ONE CREEPY SCENE, COLT IS AROED TO FD OUT THAT HIS YOUNG GIRLIEND STILL HAS HER GIRL SUT UNIFORM, WHICH, LIKE, AREN’T THOSE FOR ACTUAL CHILDREN?—BUT THEN GET CHID BACK LE BY THEIR MARLBORO MAN DAD AND SALTY, EMPATHIC MOTHER. THIS IS A SORT OF FANTASYLAND, FULL OF EE-ROAMG MALE ID THAT GETS LIGHT LTLE ZAPS WHEN STRAYS TOO FAR OFF THE PROPERTY. A’T FUN TO BE A GUY, AND WHO WOULD WANT LIFE ANY OTHER WAY? KUTCHER IS SOME WAYS THE PERFECT ACTOR FOR THIS KD OF THG, BOTH EARNT AND SYNTHETIC. THERE’S ALWAYS BEEN AN AIR OF PERFORMANCE TO HIS SHAGGY DU SHTICK, A TGE OF SOMETHG SLICK AND MECHANIL AND APPROXIMATED TO HIS AGGRSIVE MALENS. SO HE’S AT HOME ON THE RANCH, WHERE EVERYONE IS THE IA OF SOMETHG RATHER THAN THE REAL THG. (WHICH IS TE OF ALL SCRIPTED TELEVISN, OF URSE, BUT SOME S MORE GLARGLY THAN OTHERS.)THE RANCH TO CHARGED, TMPIAN TIM, ACCINTALLY REFLECTG SOME OF THE UN-CHRISTIAN ANGER THAT SEEMS TO ANIMATE MUCH OF RED STATE-ISM THE DAYS—THE SNI, POPULIST KD THAT THKS BEG P.C. IS FOR WHY BABI. THERE ARE NO NON-WHE OR GAY CHARACTERS ON THE SHOW, BEE THIS IS A BUTCH, GOOD-TIM EN WHERE NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO FS WH DIVERSY. THE SHOW STRIK SER CHORDS, ABOUT MONEY MOSTLY, A WEARS PROUDLY WEARS AS BONA FIS, PROOF OF S BLUE-LLAR SOUL. BUT REALLY THIS IS A SHOW THAT, LIKE MOST ANTI-P.C. BULLSH, SPRGS OM A PLACE OF PURE ELISM AND HGHTS, A SMUG CERTATY S STRAIGHT, WHE, MALE, MIDDLE-CLASS, MIDDLE-AMERIN RIGHTEONS. THE RANCH ISN’T PANRG TO YOUR AVERAGE RAL AMERIN SO MUCH AS IS TO AN AGGRIEVED MAJORY WHO WANT SOME REASSURANCE THAT THE OUTSI WORLD, WH ALL S SLDG RRECTIV, HASN’T ED THEIR FUN JT YET.SO WHY, SPE ALL THAT, IS THIS SHOW SO EASILY, ENJOYABLY NSUMED? I’M NOT ENTIRELY SURE. I DON’T ALIGN WH THE SHOW’S POLICS, BOTH EXPLIC AND IMPLIC, AND KUTCHER HAS NEVER BEEN MY FAVORE ACTOR. WHICH SHOULD BOTH BE PRETTY BIG TERRENTS. AND YET THEY’RE NOT. BEE THERE’S DEBRA WGER, AND THERE’S SAM ELLTT, AND THERE’S THE CUR, AMERIN PLAYHOE VIBE OF THE SHOW, LIKE A BROADST OF A STRANGE, ULTIMATELY DOOMED STEPPENWOLF PRODUCTN DIRECTED BY GARY SISE OR SOMETHG. AS A CUR, A FASCATG NOVELTY, THE RANCH IS WORTH A LOOK. IT DIPS FAR TOO OFTEN TO THE WELL OF SNICKERG, PUNCHG-DOWN HUMOR, BUT WHEN SLOWS SELF, TAK A BREATH AND NSIRS S LANDSPE, LETS THE MOUNTA WD BLOW THROUGH S HAIR, WH JT A HT OF MELANCHOLY, THERE’S SOMETHG BIZARRELY ARRTG ABOUT THE SERI.THEY JT DON’T MAKE SHOWS LIKE THIS ANYMORE, Y’KNOW? THOUGH, THEY NEVER REALLY MA SHOWS LIKE THIS. (I GUS LOUIS CK’S SHORT-LIVED HBO S, LUCKY LOUIE, WOULD BE THE CLOST ANALOG.) I’M NOT SURE WHAT, EXACTLY, THIS SHOW IS— JARS YOU THE FIRST TIME SOMEONE SAYS “FUCK” OUT LOUD AND THE STUD DIENCE LGHS, AND THAT TGLY, UNCERTA FEELG NEVER QUE LEAV. WHICH UNTS FOR SOMETHG, I THK. THE SHOW MAK YOU LEAN CLOSER TO DISCERN WHAT ’S ALL ABOUT, WHICH IS MORE THAN A LOT OF TELEVISN N SAY FOR SELF. AND DID I MENTN THAT DEBRA WGER IS ON ? DEBRA WGER IS ON THE RANCH. WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MAKE OF THAT.MOST POPULARNEW ON NETFLIX: SEPTEMBER 2023'S BT NEW MOVI & SHOWSBY CHRIS MURPHYAND JT LIKE THAT… HERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3BY HILLARY BISOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLRICHARD LAWSON
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
ASHTON KUTCHER’S NETFLIX SHOW, THE RANCH, IS UNLIKE ANYTHG ELSE ON TELEVISNBRASH AND OFF-PUTTG, THE RANCH IS ALSO BIZARRELY WATCHABLE.BY RICHARD LAWSONAPRIL 1, 2016COURTY OF NETFLIX/GREG GAYNESAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHAT IS THE WEIRST THG ABOUT THE RANCH, THE NEW SERI OM NETFLIX THAT BUTS, ALMOST LIKE SOME KD OF JOKE, ON APRIL 1? IS S OLD-SCHOOL, MULTI-M, LIVE STUD DIENCE-NS, WHICH IS THEN CUT WH SWEARS AND AN ABUNDANCE OF SEX TALK, BEE THIS IS NETFLIX AND ANYTHG GO? COULD BE. IS THE FACT THAT ASHTON KUTCHER, ACTOR AND PRODUCER AND BRAND AMBASSADOR AND TWTER PNEER, IS STARRG ON THE SHOW ALONGSI THREE-TIME OSR NOMEE AND LONGTIME HOLLYWOOD REFUGEE DEBRA WGER? THAT CERTALY MIGHT BE . OR IS THAT THE SHOW—WHICH ALSO STARS SAM ELLTT, DANNY MASTERSON, AND ELISHA CUTHBERT AS BLUE-LLAR, SMALL-TOWN COLORADO FOLKS—TRAS A KD OF SHABBY SERNS, WISTFUL OPENG CREDS AND ALL, THAT WE HAVEN’T SEEN THE LIK OF SCE MAYBE ROSEANNE? PERHAPS.BUT I’D SAY THE ODST THG ABOUT THE RANCH, WHICH WAS CREATED BY TWO AND A HALF MEN WRERS JIM PATTERSON AND DON REO, IS SIMPLY HOW PELLGLY WATCHABLE IS, ALL S MSY, MACHO, UNROKED REAL AMERINNS. IT’S UNLIKE ANYTHG ELSE ON TELEVISN, EVEN THOUGH SO MANY OF S FORMS ARE RE-PURPOSED OM TV SHOWS OM 20, 30, OR MORE YEARS AGO. IT SERV CRED, AT THE VERY LEAST, FOR DOG SOMETHG DIFFERENT AND STRANGE—EVEN IF THAT SOMETHG IS GIVG A SHOW WHOSE CHARACTERS, FOR THE MOST PART, REJECT DIFFERENCE AND STRANGENS.THE RANCH TAK PLACE THE FICTNAL TOWN OF GARRISON, WHERE KUTCHER’S COLT BENT, FAD HIGH-SCHOOL FOOTBALL STAR, HAS RETURNED TO LICK HIS WOUNDS AFTER A LONG STT STGGLG TO PLAY SEMI-PRO BALL. BOYISH AND HANDSOME HIS MID-30S, COLT IS ALL EGO AND LIBIDO, WHICH MEANS HE CLASH WH HIS STERN, LANIC RANCHER FATHER, BE, WHO ELLTT PLAYS WH HIS FAIAR ARCH ALOOFNS AND GRAVELLY, BASSO PROFUNDO TWANG. COLT’S GOT A NE’ER-DO-WELL BROTHER, ROOSTER, WHO NEVER LEFT THE RANCH AND TOMTS AROUND PICKG UP WHATEVER SCRAPS HE N. HE’S PLAYED BY MASTERSON, WHO RELI ON HIS AND KUTCHER’S ATTY RAPPORT OM THEIR THAT ’70S SHOW DAYS. AND THEN THERE’S WGER AS MAGGIE, BE’S TRANGED, HIPPIEISH WIFE, MOTHER OF THE TWO RAMBUNCT MAN-BOYS AND OWNER OF THE LOL BAR. SHE’S SENSIBLE AND STRAIGHT-TALKG AND LIK A LTLE WEED, BEG COLORADO AND ALL.SO THE BENTS L ABOUT, THE MA SETS BEG THE KCHEN-LIVG-ROOM OF THE RANCH HOE, THE PORCH OUTSI, AND THE BAR. COLT’S RE-ENTRY TO THIS MANLY ATMOSPHERE IS BUMPY—HE WEARS UGGS AND DO OTHER SISSY, CY STUFF—AND IS MA MORE SO WHEN HE NS TO HIS HIGH-SCHOOL SWEETHEART, ABBY, A SARSTIC, DOWN-TO-EARTH SCHOOL TEACHER PLAYED BY THE EVER UNRRATED CUTHBERT. COLT’S STILL GOT A THG FOR HER, AND LIKELY SHE FOR HIM, BUT SHE HAS A BOYIEND, SO COLT STEAD TAK UP WH A 22-YEAR-OLD RECENT FORMER STUNT OF ABBY’S. THE RANCH M A LOT OF JOK, AND I MEAN A LOT, OM S “HAVG SEX WH HOT YOUNG GIRLS” PLOTLE, WHICH IALLY SEEMS TO FLY THE FACE OF SOME OF THE SHOW’S AVOWED NSERVATIVE LEANGS.EXCEPT, THIS IS AT ROOT MORE A SHOW ABOUT HOLLYWOOD’S IA OF INTY POLICS, A SQUICKY, SOMETIM EMPTY GTURE TO A RED-BLOOD BASE THAT LIK THEIR MEN TO BE BEER- AND WHISKEY-GUZZLG OZE-HOUNDS AND THEIR WOMEN TO BE SWEET ’N’ SASSY. SO THE BOYS GET TO JOKE A LOT ABOUT SCREWG TEENAGE GIRLS— ONE CREEPY SCENE, COLT IS AROED TO FD OUT THAT HIS YOUNG GIRLIEND STILL HAS HER GIRL SUT UNIFORM, WHICH, LIKE, AREN’T THOSE FOR ACTUAL CHILDREN?—BUT THEN GET CHID BACK LE BY THEIR MARLBORO MAN DAD AND SALTY, EMPATHIC MOTHER. THIS IS A SORT OF FANTASYLAND, FULL OF EE-ROAMG MALE ID THAT GETS LIGHT LTLE ZAPS WHEN STRAYS TOO FAR OFF THE PROPERTY. A’T FUN TO BE A GUY, AND WHO WOULD WANT LIFE ANY OTHER WAY? KUTCHER IS SOME WAYS THE PERFECT ACTOR FOR THIS KD OF THG, BOTH EARNT AND SYNTHETIC. THERE’S ALWAYS BEEN AN AIR OF PERFORMANCE TO HIS SHAGGY DU SHTICK, A TGE OF SOMETHG SLICK AND MECHANIL AND APPROXIMATED TO HIS AGGRSIVE MALENS. SO HE’S AT HOME ON THE RANCH, WHERE EVERYONE IS THE IA OF SOMETHG RATHER THAN THE REAL THG. (WHICH IS TE OF ALL SCRIPTED TELEVISN, OF URSE, BUT SOME S MORE GLARGLY THAN OTHERS.)THE RANCH TO CHARGED, TMPIAN TIM, ACCINTALLY REFLECTG SOME OF THE UN-CHRISTIAN ANGER THAT SEEMS TO ANIMATE MUCH OF RED STATE-ISM THE DAYS—THE SNI, POPULIST KD THAT THKS BEG P.C. IS FOR WHY BABI. THERE ARE NO NON-WHE OR GAY CHARACTERS ON THE SHOW, BEE THIS IS A BUTCH, GOOD-TIM EN WHERE NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO FS WH DIVERSY. THE SHOW STRIK SER CHORDS, ABOUT MONEY MOSTLY, A WEARS PROUDLY WEARS AS BONA FIS, PROOF OF S BLUE-LLAR SOUL. BUT REALLY THIS IS A SHOW THAT, LIKE MOST ANTI-P.C. BULLSH, SPRGS OM A PLACE OF PURE ELISM AND HGHTS, A SMUG CERTATY S STRAIGHT, WHE, MALE, MIDDLE-CLASS, MIDDLE-AMERIN RIGHTEONS. THE RANCH ISN’T PANRG TO YOUR AVERAGE RAL AMERIN SO MUCH AS IS TO AN AGGRIEVED MAJORY WHO WANT SOME REASSURANCE THAT THE OUTSI WORLD, WH ALL S SLDG RRECTIV, HASN’T ED THEIR FUN JT YET.SO WHY, SPE ALL THAT, IS THIS SHOW SO EASILY, ENJOYABLY NSUMED? I’M NOT ENTIRELY SURE. I DON’T ALIGN WH THE SHOW’S POLICS, BOTH EXPLIC AND IMPLIC, AND KUTCHER HAS NEVER BEEN MY FAVORE ACTOR. WHICH SHOULD BOTH BE PRETTY BIG TERRENTS. AND YET THEY’RE NOT. BEE THERE’S DEBRA WGER, AND THERE’S SAM ELLTT, AND THERE’S THE CUR, AMERIN PLAYHOE VIBE OF THE SHOW, LIKE A BROADST OF A STRANGE, ULTIMATELY DOOMED STEPPENWOLF PRODUCTN DIRECTED BY GARY SISE OR SOMETHG. AS A CUR, A FASCATG NOVELTY, THE RANCH IS WORTH A LOOK. IT DIPS FAR TOO OFTEN TO THE WELL OF SNICKERG, PUNCHG-DOWN HUMOR, BUT WHEN SLOWS SELF, TAK A BREATH AND NSIRS S LANDSPE, LETS THE MOUNTA WD BLOW THROUGH S HAIR, WH JT A HT OF MELANCHOLY, THERE’S SOMETHG BIZARRELY ARRTG ABOUT THE SERI.THEY JT DON’T MAKE SHOWS LIKE THIS ANYMORE, Y’KNOW? THOUGH, THEY NEVER REALLY MA SHOWS LIKE THIS. (I GUS LOUIS CK’S SHORT-LIVED HBO S, LUCKY LOUIE, WOULD BE THE CLOST ANALOG.) I’M NOT SURE WHAT, EXACTLY, THIS SHOW IS— JARS YOU THE FIRST TIME SOMEONE SAYS “FUCK” OUT LOUD AND THE STUD DIENCE LGHS, AND THAT TGLY, UNCERTA FEELG NEVER QUE LEAV. WHICH UNTS FOR SOMETHG, I THK. THE SHOW MAK YOU LEAN CLOSER TO DISCERN WHAT ’S ALL ABOUT, WHICH IS MORE THAN A LOT OF TELEVISN N SAY FOR SELF. AND DID I MENTN THAT DEBRA WGER IS ON ? DEBRA WGER IS ON THE RANCH. WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MAKE OF THAT.MOST POPULARNEW ON NETFLIX: SEPTEMBER 2023'S BT NEW MOVI & SHOWSBY CHRIS MURPHYAND JT LIKE THAT… HERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3BY HILLARY BISOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLRICHARD LAWSON
She even hosts a blowout bash at her bar to close out the episos of The Ranch are currently streamg on Cred: Greg Gayne/Netflix0ments. The Ranch Season 4 - Cred: Greg Gayne / Netflix What happened at the end of The Ranch Part 8? Kutcher's next project, The Long Home, a dramatic feature based on the William Gay novel of the same name, is sportg an all-star st.
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A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
Sam Elltt and Ashton Kutcher The Ranch (Greg Gayne/Netflix, 2016). In episo seven of the last ten episos that h Netflix this month, Maggie (Debra Wger), a character that has been the fay matriarch throughout the seri, sudnly me out as gay.