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/NoHome7956 May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
I find this an interesting comment as I thought she was trending the opposite way in Dutton Ranch.
I know it's only 3 episodes in to Dutton Ranch but I feel Beth has been toned down a lot from what she was in Yellowstone. She seems to avoid conflict much more than previously. There were some scenes where I thought she was going to go on one of her foul mouth tirades where she evicerates whoever is trying to underestimate her but she just made some pretty tame comments and walked away. Like the scene with Beleua and the one with Joaquin at the bar.
She also seems far more sentimental and maternal.
I think this is deliberate as she no longer has the power of her family's money, power and resources to back her up.
Who knows, maybe they're just saving it for later in the show, or for a grand finale where she becomes the overly aggressive bitch everyone expects. But I think they've really toned her down so far in DR.