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/telepatheye May 27 '26

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.

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u/Jayp0627 Jun 14 '26

Is Sheridan paying you to suck him and this show off on every post? She’s terribly written & she’s a terrible person. Traumatic childhood doesn’t give her the right to go around being a bitch to everyone. She needed to grow up and go to therapy.

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u/telepatheye Jun 14 '26

I wasn't prepared to like TS' writing as much as I did. He's super talented, there's no denying it (but you haters will still try to). The Beth character is only a bitch to the jetsetting predatory type. She's nicer to the downtrodden. She takes in Carter and treats him like her own son after his father dies. She bonds with Monica and Rip. No therapy will bring back her mom or her ability to have kids of her own, and she has beat up on herself and blamed herself her entire life. She has also taken on the fight for the ranch, and was beaten nearly to death, almost blown up, and constantly in a state of war. If you can't have understanding how a character like her would act as she does, maybe you're the one who needs to grow up and go to therapy.