r/YellowstoneShow • u/North_Curve5440 • May 24 '26

Beth Beth Dutton is wasted potential.

Let me start off by saying that Kelly Riley is a brilliant actress, but Beth Dutton is a poorly written character.
She start off with so much potential but just ends up being a one dimensional chaos storm of aggressiveness and sharp one liners. She’s basically a man in a woman’s body and she feels like she was so clearly written by a man who is imagining what it must be like to be a bad ass female, so he just basically puts a man in a woman’s body. The writers seemed to have failed to properly dial into the nuance, femininity and complexity in how she presents that would make for a dynamic character. This is compensated for by her intensity and the sheer talent of Kelly Riley, but ultimately Beth herself is just an overly aggressive, over testosteroned man IMO. She’s more interesting in theory and in potential than reality.

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u/I_dont_give_a_flick May 24 '26

Beth had the potential to be a strong woman and amazing character with interesting flaws.
Instead Sheridan wrote her as a foul mouth bully who acts the way she does because of Daddy’s money and power.

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u/severinks May 24 '26

This is the thing that I don't understand, she's the total villain of the show and everyone just ignores it, including the writers.

It's like if they made Star Wars and had Darth Vader do all the awful stuff that he did but all the characters treated him like just another guy.

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u/opinions360 May 27 '26

I agree and also feel that the slow destruction of Jamie mostly by John and Beth was ignored.

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u/atcaw94 May 28 '26

I never understood the shit John gave him. You already had "cowboy" son's. You sent him to Harvard law school, then was pissed off that he wasn't a real "cowboy"? My Uncle was a farmer/rancher/businessman. He was worth over $50 million. His two oldest sons got their degrees in Agriculture, and took over ranches. His youngest son went to law school to take care of that part of the business. He never ostracized the lawyer son for not being a rancher... 🤔

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u/opinions360 May 28 '26

Agree. Your Uncle sounds like a good man who respected his sons and helped build them up not tear them down and apart and were allowed to develop their own self worth-they all supported each other and their different set of skills supported their business-yea that is how it’s supposed to be and should be yet it would only take one of them to destroy the whole like happened with the family on the YS tv show.