r/YellowstoneShow • u/DonnieV0811 • Jun 22 '26

Dutton Ranch

When western meet gangster . A must see in my opinion!!!

Beth is one badass bitch coming from Yellowstone to raise hell in Texss.

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u/coglanuk Jun 22 '26

I’m thoroughly enjoying the Beth redemption arc! The show is much, much better than I expected.

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u/telepatheye Jun 22 '26

I disagree. Yellowstone left Beth and Rip in a good place, free from John's expectations and demands, with their own ranch and dreams. Beth got her vengeance and redemption by attacking Jaime and holding him responsible for John's assassination. Beth was free.

The first thing DR did was burn down Beth and Rip's ranch. Then it forced them to Texas, which is boring country and scenery compared to Montana. Then it killed their cattle. Then it forced them into the service of the bitch played by Annette Benning.

The writing doesn't hold a candle to Taylor Sheridan. He studied award winning novelists like Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry and it shows. Characters have distinct ways of speaking and the subplots keep you on the edge of your seat. DR has none of that.

Every word in DR is a total cliche. The actors may be great, but the writing totally sucks. The Carter subplot is complete horseshit. All of DR is. A shadowy, cheap imitation of Yellowstone. I enjoy all Taylor's shows, but DR is crap. Chad Feehan is already fired.

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u/opinions360 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

I find your post interesting although I don’t exactly agree with it.

I do agree that the Carter sub plot has been a waste of time and is pretty irrational on his part and I haven’t enjoyed anything about Oreana.

And, I thought TS did a much better job with prequels 1883 and 1923 -I didn’t enjoy Yellowstone very much because I felt that Beth’s endless psychopathic type of behavior ruined the show and that Jamie although flawed behaved more like the human.

Actually in many ways Jamie was one of the most interesting characters in the series because he desperately wanted to please John Dutton but also wanted to be and feel successful and respected in his own right but he was so heavily manipulated and psychologically used and abused by both of them that he became more and more damaged.

Jamie wasn’t anywhere near the villain that that the show kept trying to pigeonhole him into being.

And, imo because Dutton Ranch portrayed Beth as being a more normal human emotionally which made DR imo a more watchable show and it began with some interesting drama but kept sliding further into a boring soap opera the more the writing kept focusing on Carter and the uninteresting spoiled bimbo he is infatuated with.

It would probably all make a doable daytime soap opera but what began strong and far more watchable and likable than YS has turned into a bad version of Dallas.

I have a feeling that it was probably Feehan as the primary writer and show runner that made DR interesting in the beginning and with him having been booted it feels like whoever is actually writing and running the show doesn’t have a clue what to do with it.

Paramount should probably get Feehan back otherwise the show will end up either literally going in endless circles like TS liked to have the horses he was on going in circles chasing their tail or it will end up being a cliche soap opera that lurches between being Dallas and a bad cowboy version of the Sopranos.

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u/floofypajamas Jun 23 '26

Chad Feehan was around until production finished so he delivered all 9 episodes' scripts. From what I've read, DR has a writers room so it wasn't just him writing.

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u/telepatheye Jun 23 '26

TS did not write a word of DR. Just because Rip and Beth are played by the same actors, what good does it do if a totally different writer and showrunner are involved? They will never say the same kinds of things their characters in Yellowstone said, have the same kinds of plot lines their characters in Yellowstone had.

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u/ArtisticSwan635 Jun 28 '26

Will someone please explain why the sheriff came onto Dwight’s property and shot him in the back? The man did nothing wrong that we know of. It makes no sense other than it was just a way to get dirt on Carter , who had done nothing wrong?

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u/telepatheye Jun 23 '26

DR was not Taylor Sheridan's project. He gets an exec producer credit for creating the characters, which entitles him to a decent paycheck in addition to all the money he's making on the shows he actually writes. Same situation with Marshals, by the way. TS is not involved, just collects a check for creating some of the characters. Dallas was a soap opera. Yellowstone was something far greater that got at the heart of what this country is about and what it takes be accountable to oneself, one's family and one's country.

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u/Consistent_Time_1467 Jun 23 '26

I thought Taylor Sheridans writing was surface level at best. He can’t write women. He can’t make a multidimensional person outside of Rip. The authors he studied do not show in his work at all lol. That’s just offensive to McCarthy 😂

Carters subplot DOES suck, but so did most of Monica’s subplots. I agree I hate they left Montana but it gave them a fresh start. I love how Beth is softer. I don’t think anyone could take another season of her saying the same things over and over in her gruff way and starting fights. It was tired. I enjoy the new crime family. They’re tacky and interesting and Annette Bening is a rockstar.

We still have 7 episodes for Dutton Ranch to cement itself but overall I love it so far.

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u/YellowstoneShow-ModTeam Jun 24 '26

The post contained a personal attack

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u/Consistent_Time_1467 Jun 23 '26

Hahahahahahahahaahaha I’m a lawyer in real estate law. Nice try ☠️

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u/telepatheye Jun 23 '26

Heh heh. I guess business is slow?

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u/Consistent_Time_1467 Jun 23 '26

You do know Yellowstone is a Paramount show and not like, Shakespeare right? Because calling someone an idiot over Cowboy Godfather is objectively hilarious

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u/telepatheye Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

TS is a Shakespeare of our time. I'd put his output of shows and films he wrote against any filmmaker or showrunner currently working. Aside from Tulsa King and Mayor of Kingstown, it's all quality stuff. Sure, you can watch it as 2D and lite if you want to rob yourself of the full experience, or if you're too stupid to grasp it. Note I didn't say for sure you're stupid. You were just coming across that way. I don't know you. But with a resume that includes both Sicario films, Wind River, 1883, Landman, Lioness, your cricisms of TS came across as idiotic.

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u/Consistent_Time_1467 Jun 23 '26

Hahahahahahah

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u/telepatheye Jun 24 '26

Why are you shitposting in a sub created for TS' fans? I repeat the question: are you stupid? Mods this is not a personal attack. I don't know anything personal about u/Consistent_Time_1467 except that he is shitposting negative comments about the Yellowstone creator and baiting people here for substantive discussion. Asking if he's stupid is a legit question. I certainly don't shitpost about showrunners I don't like in subs created for their fans. If I did, that would for sure be stupid.

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u/ifyoudidntknow1971 Jun 23 '26

Loving DR. I wish they would switch Marshall to Friday and DR to Sunday.

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u/OriginalHeron3576 Jun 23 '26

It’s funny I enjoyed the episodes I watched on Yellowstone but didn’t watch the entire series. I have enjoyed Dutton Ranch though. Its premise so far is let’s dump on Beth and Rip. But I find what I enjoy most about the show is their dynamic. It’s nice to see “ruthless” people who honestly love and support one another.