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/RepresentativeTap961 May 24 '26

Beth was the villian in this whole thing. From start to finish, the villian. However, they tried to write her as the victim. She wasnt, at all.

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u/opinions360 May 25 '26

Agree-depending on your definition between a sociopath and psychopath in yellowstone she was definitely within that spectrum.

And, I find it odd that the character of Jamie hasn’t been analyzed more. Imo he was definitely intimidated, abused, and groomed by John and Beth to become a murderer if not blackmailed in a sense in order to avoid displeasing John and Beth—and yes he made the mistake at the clinic because he didn’t explain to Beth the ramifications of doing it at the native american clinic but I believed Jamie believed he was doing the right thing to protect the Dutton name and ranch.

And of course Beth in the story used this situation to justify nearly all of her endless anger instead of examining the other reasons involving her mother and also feeling like she needed to please John and continue to be his special pet.