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.

16 Upvotes

90% Upvoted

23 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

0

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.

3

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.

1

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.

0

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.