Now thatYellowstoneis over, you may be searching for some other great neo-Westerns to sink into.

Just asKevin Costner’s John Duttontook his promises quite literally, so too does Pete Perkins.

This Western series didn’t last terribly long.

Tommy Lee Jones’ Uncompromising Neo-Western Crime Drama Is Everything ‘Yellowstone’ Isn’t (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada)

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One thing that makesThree Burialsstand out are the almostRashomon-like flashbacksused throughout.

Doesn’t always have to be the Old West.

As a result, their lives will never be the same.

Julio Cedillo as Melquiades Estrada showing Tommy Lee Jones as Pete Perkins a picture of his family in ‘The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada’

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It’s thoughtful, violent, and very specific, but an interesting tale nonetheless.

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estradais available to rent on Prime Video in the U.S.

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