If I’m right - and if there are no enduring consequences for anything that has happened to any of the major characters on this show in season three - that’ll mean there’s no reason to take Yellowstone seriously as a complex television drama about the politics and economy of the modern American west. In each case, ultimately, everything turned out fine.īecause of all that, I doubt any of the Duttons will be down for more than an episode (if that) when season four eventually premieres … unless the pandemic pushes the start of production back so far that one or more actors can’t show up. Remember when Jimmy was hauled off on a stretcher at the rodeo, only to spend roughly one episode in a hospital and one in a back brace before he was back in the ranch house? Remember when Kayce’s livestock agents were shot by cattle rustlers? Remember when Colby and Teeter were trampled by horses? In each case, the episode ended on a dark and ambiguous note. The real question is: Are you worried about the fate of Kayce? Beth? John?īecause honestly? Yellowstone has gone to the “Oh no, this super-important character may be dead or at least permanently injured” well way too much this season. “That must’ve been hard for you,” to which he replies - honestly - “Not really.” After a big showdown meeting between the Duttons, Chief Rainwater, Market Equities, and state officials, Governor Perry commiserates with Jamie, saying. He gets one more this week, after one conversation with his ex-con biological father convinces him to go rogue.Īll too predictably, Jamie acts according to his nature in the finale, telling Montana’s governor that it’s he (not Beth) who has the state-sanctioned power of attorney to approve the sale of Dutton tracts to the hostile interlopers from Market Equities. Always a semi-outsider in the family, Jamie has been given plenty of narratively contrived reasons over the past few episodes to abandon his adoptive family. A few days before that, Beth spilled the beans to John about how Jamie’s carelessness led to her getting sterilized during an abortion. The only Dutton spared is Jamie - but maybe Jamie shouldn’t be classified as “a Dutton.” A few days ago he found out he was adopted. John? Also felled by machine guns, while helping a stranded Californian change a flat tire. Kayce? Masked thugs charge into his office with machine guns blazing.
Beth? A bomb goes off while she’s cleaning out her office at Schwartz & Meyer. This chapter - titled “The World is Purple” - ends with nearly every member of the Dutton family at death’s door. How you feel about this episode, this season, and perhaps even Yellowstone in general may be tied to how you feel about those final scenes. Everything just goes sour for the Duttons in a hurry. By my calculations, the time between last episode’s climactic murder-spree and this episode’s explosive cliffhangers is about 36 hours at most. It’s not like Sheridan pulls one of those Battlestar Galactica or Parks and Recreation switcheroos where suddenly the story jumps way ahead it’s three years later. Several storylines from this season jump straight ahead to their next phase, with minimal setup. (Watching this show is a little like sitting in the passenger seat during a driver’s ed class.) His mode for the season-three finale? It’s a whole lot of lurch. Earlier this season, I wrote about how Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan’s plotting style seems to have two modes: nothing much happening, and then suddenly lurching forward.
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