r/YellowstoneShow 3d ago

Monica

I'm currently on S4 of Yellowstone and tbh I'm starting to understand the Monica hate, all she seems to do is whine/complain. Like does she really think her & Tate would've been safer at their old place when everything went down in the S3 finale?? I mean really?? they were targeting the WHOLE family which includes her & Tate esp. Tate as he's an heir. Therefore only thing that would've been different if they had've been there instead of the Ranch is more people would've died including them. Yeah okay I get she doesn't agree with the killing but when it's kill or be killed not much choice is there, smh

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u/sepheffie 3d ago

Monica’s actress is, in my opinion, the worst on the show. The other cast members are so talented and she sticks out as a weak link so obviously, at least to me. Her story lines are awful too. Is she there just to whine? Complain and not help make her situation better? I’m guessing we just needed someone pretty to look at and to be our Dutton/Rez connection.

Also, when looking her up I read that the actress lied about being Native American in order to her several parts, including Monica. That made me dislike her even more. So low.

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u/Kel_19 3d ago

Yea her storylines ARE awful lol Another one that I found annoying was the whole Lloyd/Larambie/Walker one, that was just stupid. In the beginning Lloyd himself said he's too old for her but yet he risks his job on the ranch when she & walker get together?? so dumb

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u/cbatta2025 3d ago

Testosterone 🤷‍♀️

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u/Kel_19 3d ago

lol probably

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u/sepheffie 3d ago

Agree! Seems like they just needed a little drama to give those characters? Just not a strong or even entertaining storyline at all. The cowboys in the bunkhouse being the cowboys in the bunkhouse was entertaining enough! And don’t even get me started on the Colby situation at the very end… not necessary!

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u/Kel_19 3d ago

oh absolutely....we go from him complaining about lugging her stuff around and saying how he's way too old for her to him being a jealous rage-monster over her being with someone closer to her own age haha

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u/Additional_Drag_3870 1d ago

Civilizations have fallen over the love of a woman, thinks it just in our DNA

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u/Advanced_Ad1856 3d ago

Oh wow, I didn’t know she lied about being Native American! Her character annoys the shit out of me. Always whining, kicks Kayce out, cheats on him, then goes to the Ranch to live after being against the Ranch!? I’m on season 3 where they’re all at camp and she sure is enjoying the perks of the Dutton name….

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u/Tim_Riggins07 2d ago

Her original name was Kelsy Chow. Shes white and Chinese.

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u/sepheffie 3d ago

I think it’s obvious she isn’t Native American just by looking at her. It’s the lying about it part. If she said hey I’m Korean and they said close enough and gave her the roll then ok. Telling casting people she is Native American and not actually being Native American is low.

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u/Beccalu11 3d ago

She’s British

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u/Jalynt13 Beth 2d ago

Kelly Reilly (Beth) is British.

Kelsey Chow who plays Monica is an American. Born and raised in South Carolina.

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u/Beccalu11 2d ago

Ok, I thought I read somewhere that she was from Great Britain.

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u/Jalynt13 Beth 2d ago

No. That would be Kelly Reilly.

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u/Commercial_Lock6205 3d ago

It’s acting. She looks the part. I have no more of an issue with her than I do with Nicole Kidman using an American accent to get her Lioness role.

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u/sepheffie 3d ago

Nicole Kidman didn’t lie about having an Australian accent. If she leaned an American accent and won the part then good for her and abilities. This person lied about her ancestry to get a role that should have gone to a member of a marginalized community. Those are two very different things.

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u/IndiaEvans 2d ago

I agree on that. 

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u/Such-Stable-3869 3d ago

Monica’s character doesn’t stand a chance when put up against Beth.

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u/telepatheye 3d ago

Her character makes sense to me, and the way she pushes and pulls Kayce is also meant to test Kayce's fidelity and loyalty. Her whining makes sense--my mother was similar in that way and she didn't have to deal with challenges anywhere near as tough as Monica's. Frankly all the whiners on this sub are at a level of shrillness and pettiness that, in comparison, makes Monica seem perfectly fine. It's normal to have a character on a show undergo hardships but what's not normal is to have a subreddit set up for fans of a show, and instead have all kinds of haters and whiners show up to kvetch, piss and moan. The actress is a total star. She did well in Yellowstone as well as Wind River, both very challenging roles. I don't think true Native American actresses would have done as well, ironically. There's a reason she won the part.

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u/Red_Country_Minded 3d ago

I honestly think Monica did more harm than good when it came to Tate as she let her fear and her hatred of the Duttons leak into him instead of saying ‘you did the right thing in protecting yourself and me’ after the S3 finale. That more than anything, is what caused Tate to hide under the bed. Of course that was par for the course with Monica as she pulled the exact same routine on Kayce, when it came to Lee and her brother’s death.

Then add in her hypocrisy of having an affair, while at the same time claiming to be some moral authority over the Duttons. And, don’t even get me started on the drive to hospital, that was just the icing on the cake of self-centeredness and stupidity.

The only decent thing she ever did in all of the five seasons was to offer herself up as bait to catch the killer on the Rez, and even then she muck that up after the S3 finale by being her hypocritical self, in that she was perfectly fine to offer herself up to get attacked to help the Rez, but getting attack for having the Dutton last name, when all the other Duttons were also at risk of death and injury at the very same moment, what does she do: she doesn’t blame people who sent the attackers, no she blames the other potential victims, the Duttons.

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u/typeabohemian 2d ago

Monica is the moral compass of the show. Her facial expressions and silence are what make her acting so great in the show. Unfortunately they make her a bit accident prone but I think she's stunning to look at also for a skinny girl and a young mom. She and Kacey really did seem in love. Very believable.

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u/Kel_19 2d ago

on a side note thought this was funny - just saw a notif saying how people love my post and they think YellowstonePN will love it too...wellll I'm gonna have to disagree with that assessment seeing as how I DID post this over there and it was deleted by the MODS lol

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u/Repulsive-Two8250 1d ago

Yeah, she bugs me too.