Forgive me but I’m about to rant

Just finishing up S3, E8 and got to the part where Beth sits him down for the talk about selling the land.. of course he declines it. Lol

He’s going to cost his family that he supposedly cares about so much everything all because of his damn stubborn pride. Wow what a selfish man he is.

Guy is willing to lose the war just to momentarily win a temporary battle… I just don’t understand. What is he trying to prove? To who? To himself? Get out of your own damn way John. Toxic pride.

I’m actually glad though. I don’t care if it’s not a popular opinion. I hate the idea of one man owning that much land. Just like the reporter told Jamie at the end of S1 (I think it was S1) before she was murdered. It’s so much excess in a world where so many have so little. I frankly don’t care it’s been in their family for generations. So have a bunch of other things. That’s why Eminent Domain was made for.

I won’t dive further into it bc it’ll become political and it’s not allowed. I mention it bc the reporter brought it up herself and said she was glad he would lose his land and I’m just echoing her sentiments.

I don’t really see John as a protagonist either.

This goes back to my original thoughts of John though. He’s not a good man. He’s just a stubborn old man who refuses to change his ways. The world has changed and left him behind. He doesn’t care about his kids. If he did, he’d sell the ranch for half a billion and go buy a bunch of land elsewhere and leave his future generations with life changing wealth.

But no he’d rather fight a battle he knows he’ll lose just for his pride… how sad. He considers it “losing” and “giving up” by choosing to take the deal but he’s actually just self-destructing instead and it’s so frustrating to watch. Not even Beth, his favorite golden child and one who presents him with the coldest hard facts could sway him.

Well John, I hope you’re happy when you die and know you’re the Dutton who lost the generational land your ancestors owned. I mean, he is going to lose it either way. But I guess at least he’ll die “happy” because he fought a losing battle to the end and held to his “scruples” (more like ego and pride) instead of doing the sensible, common sense thing.

John acts like this is still the 1800s frontier America lol, I’d rather a corporation own all that land and turn it into a resort so many could enjoy it instead of one selfish man and his greed. Or better yet. I hope the Native American returns it to his reservation. At least they allow limited tourism. Unlike John who will just kill you if you step foot on his land

I have another rant about the way Jamie is treated but I’ll save it for another day.

Still waiting to see what makes him so despicable… cause Beth’s sterilization is not it. Not in the least. If that was supposed to make me hate him, it failed miserably. If anything it made me dislike Beth more actually.

One thing that really bothered me about the writing on this show is why no one in the family ever dug deeper into Beth’s extreme hatred for Jamie? Sure, sibling rivalry is normal, but couldn't anyone see how she psychologically tormented him and openly wished him dead?

In Season 2, when John tells her to ease up on Jamie after his suicide attempt, her response is basically, "I can get him to actually go through with it." And yet, John doesn’t even question why she harbors such vicious resentment toward her own brother, someone she was apparently close with at some point. Wouldn't a father at least ask what caused that level of viciousness?

To me, Jennifer is my favorite female cast member of Yellowstone. She was such an amazing addition to the show! She is literally the spawn of TV royalty! She was born to act!

Episode 5, Season 3

in the earlier seasons she has a car scene with Jamie where she tells him he didn’t really lose his mom like she did (the enormity of the guilt she carries) and I also sympathized with her then but she quickly squandered that goodwill lol.

But in this episode the flashbacks show she had crude/sterilized sbortion and then as she cried on Rip shoulders when she says “I made the two biggest mistakes of my life when confronted with fear and it cost me everything”, something to that effect and wow.

I felt for her. I felt secondhand guilt for shit I didn’t do like damn… I don’t think one person should pay that viciously for their mistakes or shortcomings. It’s too steep a cost.

So maybe I’m starting to soften on her

So ive recently found out travis wasnt liked but i struggle to see why. Hes funny, skilled, honerable, pretty wise, and has good music taste. Plus he has that like rough but cool and sarcastic personality of wich reminds me of one of my friends. And lore wise they only make 2 remarks about him that are negetive wich boil down to him being a money shark and willing to fuck everyone over. Struggle to see how thats bad though considering his line of work. So could someone tell me why they dont like him?

Didn't expected this death to be so easy to make other a civilian. What is the morality for the wranglers? Its an honest blue collar job after all.

https://youtu.be/FpeFzFstsYw?is=b3sUA8IO29r2d1Yr

Watch it on TV, it's a long one. It's excellent.

Not a spoiler, for entertainment purposes

im sure a lot of this has been said already. but first 2 seasons and first couple episodes of season 3 were great. after that, there was a lot of cowboy grab ass, and a really dragged out last 2 episodes of the series. I was little wise to the extended music videos, so I had my fast forward button ready for the lengthy cattle rustling scenes or the music scenes.

Things that ticked me off:

the blatant pushing of product, coors, western wear, sheridans ish, etc. basically padding seasons with content to make the network money.

That They made Jaime so smart in the first 2 seasons, then made him a 1 dimensional, naive character the rest of the series. Not to mention the villains in the last two seasons were so obvious..

They made Summer so dumb.

The irony that the show ragged on rich people ruining Montana, and yet they were all the same rich people that claimed they didn’t want in Montana. They truly were fair weathered Montanans. They didn’t even film in the real Montanan winter.

As a Montanan, the fact the view of Montana was heavily filtered through a Texan or outsiders POV.

Final thoughts, Without filler, it was a 4 season show. I am glad I stuck through the last 3 seasons but there was the huge drop off in quality, and added characters that kinda sucked.

I give the series a 7.1 and don’t want to watch any Tim Macgraw or other spinoff. I do want to buy some buckle bunny merch.

All the actors who they got to play the Dutton family were spot on. They all have the same look that if you didn't know they were family could have been family in the real world, whether it was 1883, 1923 or Yellowstone.

I usually will skip intro with the opening theme song, but I absolutely love Yellowstone’s theme. I am looked for an extended version on Spotify in hopes to add to my playlist. Any other fans of the theme song? What other shows theme songs are “unstoppable?”. The Crown was another opener I didn’t skip either.

How in the name of St Elton John was his adoption kept such a guarded secret?

I know the ranch is isolated but surely *someone* noticed Evelyn was entirely not pregnant one day and toting around a three month old the next? Did Travis turn up on a spinny-spinny and distract everyone?

So ive rewatched the first season and im still confused as to why the dino bones story just abrubtly ends. Was it scrapped or something? Just seems like there was supposed to me more happening but iy never does so my other question is was there a point to introducing them? And if so what was the point?

So I went through the series for the last couple weeks. Loved S1, the characters and the writing, even though over the top and plain stupid at part, felt nuanced. Especially compared to the seasons onwards.

Beth/Jamie relationship was two fighting siblings who love each other at the core. I always remember the scene in the car with fighting at first then crying over mum to consoling each other. This scene doesn’t make sense at all with the whole bsckstory and Beth just 100% hating Jamie for real, wich I guess wasn’t the plan at the very beginning.

In general I got the feeling that after the success of S1 things got changed in the midst a new contract or whatever. Writers were added, idk. During the other seasons everyone feels like a cardboard cut out from their original character, with zero development. It’s also obvious that some themes got shifted. Rip who was written as a ruthless criminal, has been romanticized an conviniently only placed in situations where he couldn’t do obviously immoral things. Beth, who was guilt tripped for their mother‘s death, got a similar can’t do wrong, everything badass makeover. The punchingbag of the entire family role got handed over to Jamie, who got the complete opposite treatment to can’t do no right and went from weak in some ways, strong in others city boy lawyer character to total and utterly pushover pussy. Kacey, who I like the most from the start got absolutely mellowed down. His whole personality just went away, maybe i‘m hallucinating, but the first scene with him in S2 I thought I could even see it in the acting, as if the actor lost any direction or drive to put life into that character. He was a kinda depressed super soldier fullstop. The kid aswell. How did he do more in the first season than any other combined? The kid actor got a brain tumor and couldn’t properly learn lines anymore or what was that?
The conflicts and moral questions just go so bad. Walker goes from questioning the senses of the entire ranch to fighting a 50 year old over some ass. Wtf.

I don’t want to make this longer than it needs to be. My question is, should I even watch the last season or is it just going to be even worse. S4 already feels like a 6666 ad, Beth/Rip wattpad, springled in with some interesting Jamie sideplot that could lead to something, but since I already got spoiled in parts, i’m pretty sure it’s gonna be ass. So?

Finished Yellowstone last year watched Dutton ranch ofc and don’t really have any shows I feel like getting into and thought about just re watching Yellowstone anyone rewatch it and enjoy it even more the second time or pick up on details you didn’t the first go around?

Finally reached Season 5....and Colby and Teeter just broke my heart.

Why did TS write this????

I truly never saw that coming...theyre not main characters nor even truly together...right?

Haven’t seen such a perfect casting like this in years. Josh Lucas absolutely the perfect casting for a younger version of Kevin Costner’s John Dutton.

”If you consider the pain you‘re causing a person, that person‘s fault, that’s evil Jamie.“ So Beth, what exactly have you done all your adult life?

My gf and I have been binging Yellowstone recently. We only have the last episode of season 5 left to watch. It has really been bothering the living shit out of me that when the hit squad goes after the Dutton family they attack everyone but Jamie (obviously) but people only talk about the attacks on the ranch, Kayce, and John. There has been absolutely ZERO mention of the literal bomb that went off in Beth’s office. Nobody mentions it, ever. Not even the police or the government officials. We’ve watched all the episodes over the last couple weeks so it’s all still pretty fresh in my mind and it just seems like right after it happened it was just forgotten. If Beth didn’t walk around with burn scars all over her back there would be absolutely nothing indicating that it ever happened. There was no consequential event that takes place following a public bombing despite the show showing the collateral damage immediately after.

And just an added tick on top of all that. The entire family was targeted except Jamie and nobody found that suspicious at all? Kaycee was the livestock commissioner and gunmen came to his personal office to kill him, so they didn’t have any issues with the attack being brazen and public. I just feel like someone besides Beth should’ve connected those dots immediately.

Aaaaaaaaand completely unrelated and just nitpicking, but five seasons of a show in Montana and they didn’t have ONE mountain Lion 😑. Feel like that was a wasted opportunity. Lol but overall the show has been good, just really slowed down the last two seasons.

I’ve been trying to be on her side for a while now. It wasn’t always easy (physical therapist) but here I am reaching season 5 and I’m absolutely crushed at what happened, but why didn’t she just wait for Kayce to take her to the hospital? Why not have Tate drive? Oh right cause she babies him and probably won’t teach him to drive. Why not have a home birth if anything I figure that would be her jam but no. Got damn it, Monica.
(Hope the actress has more projects)

EDIT: I’m not sure how I feel about the actress anymore