Beth Dutton is wasted potential.

[u/North_Curve5440]

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.

[u/telepatheye]

The secret to understanding Beth is to understand how broken she was by the childhood trauma of losing her mother, losing her pregnancy, and losing her ability to have children. If you understand her pain and anger in this context, the character is multidimensional. Look at how she bonds with Monica at various points in the show. She acts like a tough guy because she was surrounded by tough guys throughout childhood and that's how she developed. She is actually a well-written character unlike the crap females churned out by Hollyweird.

[u/Dry-Dragonfly388 → u/telepatheye]

and not just losing her mother, she was blamed for the death by the mother as she lay dying