None. The show was ruined/spoiled when Sheridan messed up his rapport with Costner, leading to Costner's departure. Sheridan has too many projects to focus on Yellowstone properly. John should not have gone out like he did.
Now that we know in the end the ranch goes back to the Indians makes all the prequels pointless. Sheridan pigeon holed himself with the whole 7 generations prophecy in 1883.
For me S5pt2 was the death of the Yellowstone itself. John was the type. 'you can have the Yellowstone when you pry it from my cold dead hands.' So him being dead before hand. Cut out the prying from dead hands in a limited episode S5pt2. And John would of approved of new beginnings, with the Yellowstone spirit. For both his son and daughter. Land and cattle where no one will ever try to take it from them. John's legacy lives on ... on two ranches now. Both with a young generation of children he bonded with. Who will remember and tell his story. Now I have 3 parts of Horizon to wait on
I didn't know Travis was Sheridan.. until I saw him on the cutting horse, in the ring.. I've seen cutting horses in a competition, and they are crazy good, but the camera was on "Travis" just TOO long. It was obviously an ego scene. And there were MORE of them, sooo many more. I googled it and yup, it was Sheridan. I've been enjoying his shows, but they're definitely dude flicks, the women aren't very well written for. Geez.. you can tell he has a huge ego just by looking at him: huge arms, huge attitude, his treatment of Teeter was just wrong. He's an ass in real life, I bet. And I wouldn't be surprised if his women have to be weighed before he'll date them. I'm enjoying Landman so far, but then, Sheridan isn't in that. But again, the women characters are pretty washed out, good enough for oogling at, not good enough to have a brain. At least he gave Beth a brain... Sadly, he has her drinking herself into a very early grave.. No human can drink the way she does and survive.
I hate that they killed off Jamie! John and Beth were always pulling him to the point that he became vengeful. I hated Beth winning! Also hated Sheridan taking up a lot of screen time.
Everything bad that happened to the Dutton family was because of Beth. I absolutely HATED Beth and frankly Monica. It was the same shit different episode. That goes for both. Monica it was “oh I love you Casey and nothing will break that” to “I hate you and I can’t stand being by you” to “we need a change of scenery because it feels wrong here now” to moving into a new place till something happens and then they have to move. Beth was “everything is Jaimie’s fault!” To “I hate this place because mom made me sad and I screwed everything there and begged for an abortion but now I can’t have a kid now.”she never took responsibility for ANYTHING, everyone else was to blame. Just bad. Forget about the fact that everything everyone died for and suffered for was literally for nothing! At the end it was screw it we’re done here’s the house and barn and GRAVES of my family that we built, fought for, suffered for, and killed for so just tear it all down and let your little brats tip over the graves. Screw this show and it’s crap ending. It’s honestly a toss up over which great show had a worse ending Game of Thrones or Yellowstone
Yea I agree with everything you said, I can't understand at all why people liked her, she was spiteful, aggressive and wouldn't take any accountability for her actions. She's a very frustrating character to watch and turned me off the show tbh.
@@PrettyTigerlilly I think that people who are infatuated with the character is because she embodies an over the top feminist power fantasy. Not in a "woke bs" way, but akin to how an action hero in the 80s was portrayed, but transposed in the context of a business woman. At least that's my takeaway from seeing the reaction to her character throughout the series. I'll admit. It can be fun to see her act like a lunatic and the universe somehow bowing to her will. Or her surviving bomb and smoking a cigarette after. But it's to me it all comes across as a power fantasy not a "great character". She felt a bit like a videogame character who had 'god mode' enabled, so nothing truly could hurt her. Anyway, I personally found that she turned out to be a one trick pony. If they had planned some growth with the character she could have been salvaged. From a maniac to a contained storm kind of deal. But she was off the rails from start to finish.
Well…it was getting pretty insane maintaining that land as their ranch. That is a stressful legacy to have to take on, although I will say they could have made an effort to keep their claim on SOME of the land. It’s better that it was returned to the indigenous people. I mean I’ve never been in the situation but I can’t imagine being upset about the land going back to people that will actually care for it in its natural state. The alternative would be to eventually get punked by the corporate rulers. How many times did we see lives being endangered and/or killed all in the name of protecting the ranch? I wouldn’t want to raise my kid in that environment.
Let's be Real TS counting on us to root for Beth and make her & Rip the heroes and Jamie the villain was terribly lazy. Beth not seeing an inch of growth in 5 seasons is also a case to be studied. Kayce was the only likeable Dutton in this entire show and Jamie's part had so much potential but the way they turned him into the "villain" trying to portray John and Beth as victims is a real joke.
All these Beth cultists are crazy just like her. She killed Jamie who already asked for forgiveness for what happened when they were YOUNG but still it isn't enough for her?? And John who never loved Jamie despite all he was doing to please him. Why adopt him then?? John and Beth turned Jamie into how he is.
I felt like the season was hastily written and that Sheridan wanted to move on to other projects. In addition, the Equity company was such a large, and powerful part of the story, covering a couple of seasons, that we never really get any closure to their reaction to all of the events during the last season.
The editing was even worse than the writing. Cut from a morose sad scene with the cowboys lamenting the end of the ranch, to a party with naked chicks and Taylor Sheridan ripping off Brazilians in a comedy scene, to a scene of Jamie begging his forgettable ex to tell him what to do. Absolute whiplash editing. Total trash.
So the ranch hands dedicated their lives to the ranch. Branded for life. carried out a laundry list of crimes on the Duttons behalf. All for Rip to hand out severance checks and everything is hunky dory?
I always thought the branding part was completely bs. You get an ugly branding and are literally scarred for life for being paid minimum wage, sleeping in a bunk bed and sharing a communal bathroom like some kids in summer camp? Really? 🙄
I get Sheridan was likely going for “the only thing that was gonna end the Dutton Empire…. was itself” which is where Jamie Dutton enters the picture, but Jamie wasn’t developed in a way that made him seem like he was genuinely against the families interest of trying to “save the ranch” or at least the parts of it that could be saved. I don’t even fully buy that after Sarah had his dad killed he still would’ve stuck by her. I feel like he was shoehorned into playing the main villain role for those final few episodes.
I hate that Beth won over Jamie, and that John Dutton's public image gets to live on as him being this great guy when he was just horrible. Jamie is the one out of the Dutton kids that did everything John wanted and gave up the kind of life he really wanted of just working on the ranch, yet he was the one who got fucked over the most. Also Beth can fuck off with the hypocrisy about John being killed. At the end of part 1 of season 5 she asked John to have Jamie killed, but when Jamie beats them in the race and John gets killed first now he's suddenly so horrible? Girl look in the mirror.
@@imanton_20did you forget about Jamie taking Beth to the reservation clinic for the abortion and resulting sterilization surgery? That was Jamie's way of securing his ability to get more from inheritance by limiting heirs. And THAT totally screwed up Beth mentally, emotionally and physically. He lied to a young frightened girl who needed his help. Totally evil, even as a young man.
The only satisfying ending to those two was that they'd deal each other a death blow and Rip gets there too late and finds them both dead. But by this point the show lost all of it's appetite for high stakes and taking chances. Also from a moral standpoint they took a character who carried a lifelong grudge and was only satisfied with the murder of her nemesis. That works in an action movie, but in this kind of drama it just sends very weird vibes.
I know I’m in the minority on this matter but I feel sorry for Jamie. I know I’m supposed to hate him as much as Beth but I don’t. Sheridan succeeded in making him complex as possible so he’s not a cartoon villain but he simultaneously failed to make me hate him. He wasn’t evil like Ramsey Bolton, Arthur Mitchell, Joffrey Baratheon, or Angelus. He was an abused kid who was made into the thing they hated and punished him for it. Having ambition and doing what you want doesn’t warrant capital punishment. John said he raised him with love and respect which was complete bullshit. He raised all his kids with fear, intimidation, and punishment. He was a horrible father. Kick a dog long enough and soon it’ll turn on you. Beth and John repeatedly abusing Jamie got old real quick. Her and Jamie have had the same argument every single season and never changed. Like some Game of Thrones characters at the end, Jamie got more cowardly and stupid to the point where suspension of disbelief got thrown out the window. I half expected him to record a last testimony exposing their secrets as a final 🖕🏼to this family but it never happened.
It was crap after season 2. If Sheridan has any ability to self reflect he will learn that he desperately needs a writers room to help him maintain a plot, subplot and character development. Blaming Costner is an immature assessment as he waited for Sheridan to finish scripts and make a plan, but Sheridan was off making a bunch of other shows. I predict his other shows will fail too. Landman was a great premise with good actors but the writing is god awful.
I only watched a couple episodes of the first season because my sister obliged me while I was traveling with her. If that was the peak of the show... yikes. It is a soap opera written for people that think they are too cool for soap operas.
Very similar to House of Cards, Where even tho it was slightly different issues with Spacey etc compared to Costner similar led to awful series ending season🧠 affected by their leading cast missing
Sometimes, a show is not meant to last so long. If it’s drama based, you need drama & more drama, etc to the point that you lose logic & continuity. This show went past its due date. And we are left with horseshit. The only thing/person to blame is TS.
very disappointing ending of the series. looks as if sheridan has run out of ideas and money, and without kevin he just needed to bring this to the end somehow. 1. whole dutton family has gone nuts because of greed, and many people died because of that greed including kevin, but at the end they gave the land to natives for free ? so what was the point of all that deaths ? so instead of selling part of the land to developers as was proposed many times and living their lives happily they have lost their lives and land ? 2. how can anyone expect this trick with natives would work for the irs ? its like basically creating a fake expenses in order to kill your profit and avoid profit tax, cmon, tax office anywhere in the world much less in us would instantly grill this deal. Also how were duttons able to sell it at all, only if they became the rightful owners after kevin ? that means they would have to pay inheritance tax anyway before the deal ? 2. how can police be so stupid to swallow the murder of jamie ? he is an attorney general, and given the recent death of the governor they would dig like crazy. any sane forensic team (CSI for example haha) would instantly see what happened there. beth came to her brothers house to talk but she had a bear spray with her ? how about jamie's blood which should be everywhere ?
Come on Beth would just have a another temper tantrum and insult the FBI agents like the guys in the bar and they will cower down into the corner and believe her story no matter what, and the the fans who are still thinking the show was as good as seasons 1 and 2 will think it’s the ending is like Beth the greatest ever
@@faithtomorrow the federal govt or BLM ( bureau of land management) has to agree to the land purchase and if accepted the federal govt is the trustee of the land. This is where better writing would solve this dilemma. The state already started evident domain for the land so that might hold up the land selling.
My mom loved Yellowstone. When she was sick, she asked me to watch the first two seasons with her. I hated everything about the show, especially the characters. When she passed, I did not bother watching the rest of the show. I am glad that other folks enjoyed it though. 1883 was awesome. I could not get through 1923, which is a shame because I love Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. Anyway, thanks for this video. I always enjoy your content.
the downfall was the writers strike in 22 and Kevin's vanity project, and it felt like they did a whole season 6 in the last half of season 5, but yeasth Kevin leaving was the start
1883 was good but what took me out of it was Elsa bury me in a Y shaped coffin Dutton sleeping with anything that moved and as for Yellowstone i checked out when Monica hit not just a buffalo but was hit by a drunk driver in the vast expanse of Montanan pick one! it all got to ridiculous
The ratings didn’t drop that’s for sure…Season 5B had the highest ratings ever for the show. The series final episode was watched by over 12 million cable viewers the actual night the finale aired.. not including repeated viewings later that night or the following day. I think that’s something to celebrate in an era of streaming.
The number of people tuning in doesn't' equate to good ratings. Here are the Rotten Tomato Critic/Audience scores for all the seasons: S01: 58% / 83% S02: 89% / 90% S03: 100% / 87% S04: 91% / 82% S05: 79% / 40% Season 5 has the lowest audience rating by a long shot. I can only assume that it will only get worse over time as people get to watch the finale and realize what kind of a wet fart the show ended with. Peak Yellowstone was S03, with the beginning of S04E01. The rest was a gradual decent in quality of writing.
1883 is great and my favorite as well. However, I disagree with you on 1 point. Beth didn't think of the loophole because a "modern business sense" wouldn't think of selling off he land for that cheap. The show ending was pretty good and having Jamie being compartmentalized needed to happen be cause he was the villain of the storyline. It wouldn't make sense to have him around the ranch at all. The last 6 episodes did feel a bit rushed but over all they did very well with what they had to work with. I'm looking forward to season 2 of 1923, hopefully it won't be rushed.
To me the show lost it's way in Season 4. Specifically right after the start of S4E1. The show had raised the stakes and sense of danger at it's highest point in the series. But after that for reasons I will never understand. It started focusing on smaller plot points, and drama in the bunkhouse. John's dating an activist. Whether Beth will become a mom to the kid. Random inconsequential problems that are resolved quickly and that's it. The biggest thing in Season 4 is Jaimie killing his Dad, which was the season finale. Season 5 felt extremely low stakes other than the finances of the ranch. After all these crazy kidnappings and shootings. The show's final boss is "inheritance tax". Such a letdown. And lastly, there is no way in hell Beth, Rip and Lloyd would get away with Jaimie's murder. With them "cleverly" taking the body away and turning this into a manhunt. The authorities would for sure request a bunch of neighborhood ring cams, and traffic light cameras to be able to track Jaime and find him. If they'd do that they'd figure out really quickly that Jaime never drove his car away and that it was either Rip or Lloyd in the front seat. In this day and age you can't just roll up a murder in rug and get away with it. There's too many cameras everywhere for that to be possible. It would had to been planned to perfection, but as we know Beth was the only one aware this was going to happen. So everything was done in a rush and yet it all went off without a hitch 'off screen'. That ending was the huge pile of horse manure. Also, Sheridan felt like a grown man roleplaying as a college frat boy in a cowboy outfit. Those strip poker scenes, both with the barrel racers, and Beth, was so vain and pathetic. I feel bad for him. Tell me you have ego problems without telling me.
lol at your inheritance tax as the final boss comment. Also yes, that’d have to be some extremely incompetent investigators who can’t figure out that Beth murdered Jamie. If they do a spin off of the two they’ll be suspects and the drama will be around them once again evading accountability in their lives. Pass.
Where is the knife? Where are the Ring Cameras? Jamie explained everything to his EX. No way was this murder of the Attorney General just going to stop. Way too many questions.
And getting paid for using his ranches, his cattle, his livestock, and and and...he socked it to the production company that was his as well and passed expenses on to the network. Kind of like having a circle business money grab.
I like how Beth and Carter developed but it felt like there wasn't much for him to do this time around. Except get Colby killed. He was just always in the background. He and Rip also barely had scenes together where they talked and bonded. Never got the father son bond from them.
I think TS just has too many irons in the fire at the moment and the storytelling suffered. It doesn’t help when your most central character leaves the show, either. It’s too bad, because I really enjoyed this show the first three seasons.
It would be nice if someone could make a video comparing why Succession worked and Yellowstone failed. Both fathers died close to mid-season. Grant it, Succession was planned out with no off screen shenanigans.
@@DatBoiChris420 Kevin Costner career was foundering badly , Yellowstone and Sheridan casting him as John Dutton relaunched him . Both are too blame the only losers were us the viewers.
Look Costner leaving was doing for his project which failed miserably . He wasn't easy to work with Yellowstone relaunched his career which was foundering. Those 2 could not work it out together sad
@BrainPilot it is but Actors with massive egos like Costner both should own it but maybe it was for the best. As Luke Grimes said this was the easiest season to film . 5 Seasons were great The Mafia with Spurs
I think, that the ranches faith was doomed, when Lee died in the first season. He was the one who could have maintained the legacy. And ffs, they could have sell it to Rip.
I hated the ending. What a lazy copout! Kevin gave that show gravitas, but he left Taylor thought he could substitute? He is not an actor and the worst thing is killing JAMIE OFF! he was the best actor on the show! Beth is OVERRATED a drunk a slut and then a killer! It is not Jamie's fault for her decisions, nothing made sense in that storyline
I stopped watching because I grew tired of Beth and Jamie. Once I understood why she hated Jamie, I thought that was crazy. If she told her dad, he would had taken RIP to the train station. Also, I think the clinic would had gave Jamie options to help his sister since they were both extremely young.
Definitely worth the watch but the final part of Season 5 just dips in quality at a rapid pace. It's got a wholesome ending but if Kevin hadn't left it would have been better
The first 3 seasons were great, then the writing was terrible...with lots of 10 min scenes with horses parading around was just boring! I also hated Beth what a horrible woman!.....The way she degrades men at a bar WHY?....I did not see the funny side of it! and had hoped she would get bumped off
I wasn’t surprised when Beth went after Jaime but I didn’t think she would actually kill him. I did love the final episode. It tied up loose ends. The land was returned to the rightful people. I thought John Dutton’s funeral would have been bigger. He influenced and knew a lot of ranchers. Sheridan put himself in the last few episodes because Costner left.
The guy that made this video forgot to mention the writers artist guild strike right in the middle of this show that crippled it and played a big part in the downward trend. Not to mention taylor sheridan had to deal with egomaniac kevin costner just leaving. i think he did a good job with the shit hand he was dealt. i mean, when costner left he kinda left him out to dry. I liked the ending. But this shows downfall is not taylor sheridans fault, all on kevin costner/writers strike.
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Which spin off are you looking forward to most: 1923 S2, 1944 or The Madison? Let me know your thoughts in the comments
1923 S2 and 1944 for sure !
None. The show was ruined/spoiled when Sheridan messed up his rapport with Costner, leading to Costner's departure. Sheridan has too many projects to focus on Yellowstone properly. John should not have gone out like he did.
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Now that we know in the end the ranch goes back to the Indians makes all the prequels pointless. Sheridan pigeon holed himself with the whole 7 generations prophecy in 1883.
For me S5pt2 was the death of the Yellowstone itself.
John was the type. 'you can have the Yellowstone when you pry it from my cold dead hands.' So him being dead before hand. Cut out the prying from dead hands in a limited episode S5pt2.
And John would of approved of new beginnings, with the Yellowstone spirit. For both his son and daughter. Land and cattle where no one will ever try to take it from them. John's legacy lives on ... on two ranches now. Both with a young generation of children he bonded with. Who will remember and tell his story.
Now I have 3 parts of Horizon to wait on
Sheridan acting as Travis was cringe. What an egomaniac. Beth’s character became tiresome.
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Kelly Reilly deserves better as an actress.
I didn't know Travis was Sheridan.. until I saw him on the cutting horse, in the ring.. I've seen cutting horses in a competition, and they are crazy good, but the camera was on "Travis" just TOO long. It was obviously an ego scene. And there were MORE of them, sooo many more. I googled it and yup, it was Sheridan. I've been enjoying his shows, but they're definitely dude flicks, the women aren't very well written for.
Geez.. you can tell he has a huge ego just by looking at him: huge arms, huge attitude, his treatment of Teeter was just wrong. He's an ass in real life, I bet. And I wouldn't be surprised if his women have to be weighed before he'll date them.
I'm enjoying Landman so far, but then, Sheridan isn't in that. But again, the women characters are pretty washed out, good enough for oogling at, not good enough to have a brain.
At least he gave Beth a brain... Sadly, he has her drinking herself into a very early grave.. No human can drink the way she does and survive.
Sheridan wasn't acting...just being himself...smug, ego-centric jerk!
I agree on Beth. As far as her and Rip getting their own show, I think ppl would get tired of her. Rip, I like, Beth you can only take so much
I hate that they killed off Jamie! John and Beth were always pulling him to the point that he became vengeful. I hated Beth winning! Also hated Sheridan taking up a lot of screen time.
Me too...
Everything bad that happened to the Dutton family was because of Beth. I absolutely HATED Beth and frankly Monica. It was the same shit different episode. That goes for both. Monica it was “oh I love you Casey and nothing will break that” to “I hate you and I can’t stand being by you” to “we need a change of scenery because it feels wrong here now” to moving into a new place till something happens and then they have to move. Beth was “everything is Jaimie’s fault!” To “I hate this place because mom made me sad and I screwed everything there and begged for an abortion but now I can’t have a kid now.”she never took responsibility for ANYTHING, everyone else was to blame. Just bad. Forget about the fact that everything everyone died for and suffered for was literally for nothing! At the end it was screw it we’re done here’s the house and barn and GRAVES of my family that we built, fought for, suffered for, and killed for so just tear it all down and let your little brats tip over the graves. Screw this show and it’s crap ending. It’s honestly a toss up over which great show had a worse ending Game of Thrones or Yellowstone
Yea I agree with everything you said, I can't understand at all why people liked her, she was spiteful, aggressive and wouldn't take any accountability for her actions. She's a very frustrating character to watch and turned me off the show tbh.
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@@PrettyTigerlilly I think that people who are infatuated with the character is because she embodies an over the top feminist power fantasy. Not in a "woke bs" way, but akin to how an action hero in the 80s was portrayed, but transposed in the context of a business woman. At least that's my takeaway from seeing the reaction to her character throughout the series.
I'll admit. It can be fun to see her act like a lunatic and the universe somehow bowing to her will. Or her surviving bomb and smoking a cigarette after. But it's to me it all comes across as a power fantasy not a "great character". She felt a bit like a videogame character who had 'god mode' enabled, so nothing truly could hurt her.
Anyway, I personally found that she turned out to be a one trick pony. If they had planned some growth with the character she could have been salvaged. From a maniac to a contained storm kind of deal. But she was off the rails from start to finish.
Well…it was getting pretty insane maintaining that land as their ranch. That is a stressful legacy to have to take on, although I will say they could have made an effort to keep their claim on SOME of the land. It’s better that it was returned to the indigenous people. I mean I’ve never been in the situation but I can’t imagine being upset about the land going back to people that will actually care for it in its natural state. The alternative would be to eventually get punked by the corporate rulers. How many times did we see lives being endangered and/or killed all in the name of protecting the ranch? I wouldn’t want to raise my kid in that environment.
Let's be Real TS counting on us to root for Beth and make her & Rip the heroes and Jamie the villain was terribly lazy. Beth not seeing an inch of growth in 5 seasons is also a case to be studied. Kayce was the only likeable Dutton in this entire show and Jamie's part had so much potential but the way they turned him into the "villain" trying to portray John and Beth as victims is a real joke.
Soooo true.
Agree
Ahh it’s so annoying. Throughout seasons 3-5p1 I was hoping we’d get a Jamie redemption arc
Beth definitely grew; a lot. She is more mature and subdued, when it matters. The kid changed her
Soap opera in boots
All these Beth cultists are crazy just like her. She killed Jamie who already asked for forgiveness for what happened when they were YOUNG but still it isn't enough for her?? And John who never loved Jamie despite all he was doing to please him. Why adopt him then?? John and Beth turned Jamie into how he is.
The thing I don't understand is why have Jimmy grow and mature so much as a character, Just to turn him into a punching bag again
Fair enough but I liked his character development but yeah.
It's not the kind of demise I expected. It was too obvious a trajectory.
I asked the same question. It was demeaning
Seems like a guy named “Jamie” and “character development” cannot coexist, just like Game of Thrones
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I felt like the season was hastily written and that Sheridan wanted to move on to other projects. In addition, the Equity company was such a large, and powerful part of the story, covering a couple of seasons, that we never really get any closure to their reaction to all of the events during the last season.
Yes. Just like most shows these days.
The editing was even worse than the writing. Cut from a morose sad scene with the cowboys lamenting the end of the ranch, to a party with naked chicks and Taylor Sheridan ripping off Brazilians in a comedy scene, to a scene of Jamie begging his forgettable ex to tell him what to do. Absolute whiplash editing. Total trash.
So the ranch hands dedicated their lives to the ranch. Branded for life. carried out a laundry list of crimes on the Duttons behalf. All for Rip to hand out severance checks and everything is hunky dory?
I always thought the branding part was completely bs. You get an ugly branding and are literally scarred for life for being paid minimum wage, sleeping in a bunk bed and sharing a communal bathroom like some kids in summer camp? Really? 🙄
Yeah, more of Sheridan's hurry up and get done Game of Thrones style writing
Yeah, that was tacky.
I get Sheridan was likely going for “the only thing that was gonna end the Dutton Empire…. was itself” which is where Jamie Dutton enters the picture, but Jamie wasn’t developed in a way that made him seem like he was genuinely against the families interest of trying to “save the ranch” or at least the parts of it that could be saved. I don’t even fully buy that after Sarah had his dad killed he still would’ve stuck by her. I feel like he was shoehorned into playing the main villain role for those final few episodes.
I hate that Beth won over Jamie, and that John Dutton's public image gets to live on as him being this great guy when he was just horrible. Jamie is the one out of the Dutton kids that did everything John wanted and gave up the kind of life he really wanted of just working on the ranch, yet he was the one who got fucked over the most. Also Beth can fuck off with the hypocrisy about John being killed. At the end of part 1 of season 5 she asked John to have Jamie killed, but when Jamie beats them in the race and John gets killed first now he's suddenly so horrible? Girl look in the mirror.
She could not ! Her lack of empathy, sociopathic tendencies and lack of honesty could never aha
@@imanton_20did you forget about Jamie taking Beth to the reservation clinic for the abortion and resulting sterilization surgery? That was Jamie's way of securing his ability to get more from inheritance by limiting heirs. And THAT totally screwed up Beth mentally, emotionally and physically. He lied to a young frightened girl who needed his help. Totally evil, even as a young man.
The only satisfying ending to those two was that they'd deal each other a death blow and Rip gets there too late and finds them both dead. But by this point the show lost all of it's appetite for high stakes and taking chances. Also from a moral standpoint they took a character who carried a lifelong grudge and was only satisfied with the murder of her nemesis. That works in an action movie, but in this kind of drama it just sends very weird vibes.
I know I’m in the minority on this matter but I feel sorry for Jamie. I know I’m supposed to hate him as much as Beth but I don’t. Sheridan succeeded in making him complex as possible so he’s not a cartoon villain but he simultaneously failed to make me hate him. He wasn’t evil like Ramsey Bolton, Arthur Mitchell, Joffrey Baratheon, or Angelus. He was an abused kid who was made into the thing they hated and punished him for it. Having ambition and doing what you want doesn’t warrant capital punishment. John said he raised him with love and respect which was complete bullshit. He raised all his kids with fear, intimidation, and punishment. He was a horrible father. Kick a dog long enough and soon it’ll turn on you. Beth and John repeatedly abusing Jamie got old real quick. Her and Jamie have had the same argument every single season and never changed. Like some Game of Thrones characters at the end, Jamie got more cowardly and stupid to the point where suspension of disbelief got thrown out the window. I half expected him to record a last testimony exposing their secrets as a final 🖕🏼to this family but it never happened.
It was crap after season 2. If Sheridan has any ability to self reflect he will learn that he desperately needs a writers room to help him maintain a plot, subplot and character development. Blaming Costner is an immature assessment as he waited for Sheridan to finish scripts and make a plan, but Sheridan was off making a bunch of other shows. I predict his other shows will fail too. Landman was a great premise with good actors but the writing is god awful.
Mayor of Kingstown is his only good show cuz he’s not a writer on it
I only watched a couple episodes of the first season because my sister obliged me while I was traveling with her. If that was the peak of the show... yikes. It is a soap opera written for people that think they are too cool for soap operas.
Very similar to House of Cards, Where even tho it was slightly different issues with Spacey etc compared to Costner similar led to awful series ending season🧠 affected by their leading cast missing
Sometimes, a show is not meant to last so long. If it’s drama based, you need drama & more drama, etc to the point that you lose logic & continuity. This show went past its due date. And we are left with horseshit. The only thing/person to blame is TS.
very disappointing ending of the series. looks as if sheridan has run out of ideas and money, and without kevin he just needed to bring this to the end somehow.
1. whole dutton family has gone nuts because of greed, and many people died because of that greed including kevin, but at the end they gave the land to natives for free ? so what was the point of all that deaths ? so instead of selling part of the land to developers as was proposed many times and living their lives happily they have lost their lives and land ?
2. how can anyone expect this trick with natives would work for the irs ? its like basically creating a fake expenses in order to kill your profit and avoid profit tax, cmon, tax office anywhere in the world much less in us would instantly grill this deal. Also how were duttons able to sell it at all, only if they became the rightful owners after kevin ? that means they would have to pay inheritance tax anyway before the deal ?
2. how can police be so stupid to swallow the murder of jamie ? he is an attorney general, and given the recent death of the governor they would dig like crazy. any sane forensic team (CSI for example haha) would instantly see what happened there. beth came to her brothers house to talk but she had a bear spray with her ? how about jamie's blood which should be everywhere ?
Come on Beth would just have a another temper tantrum and insult the FBI agents like the guys in the bar and they will cower down into the corner and believe her story no matter what, and the the fans who are still thinking the show was as good as seasons 1 and 2 will think it’s the ending is like Beth the greatest ever
I was wondering the legitimacy of this “business deal” that Kayce and Rainwater did… 😂
@@faithtomorrow the federal govt or BLM ( bureau of land management) has to agree to the land purchase and if accepted the federal govt is the trustee of the land. This is where better writing would solve this dilemma. The state already started evident domain for the land so that might hold up the land selling.
@@gajacome1 Thanks for pointing that out. It was all way too easy of a solution and completely unrealistic 🤦♀️
John and Beth are the true villains here. They ruined Jamie's life. Such a waste😢
My mom loved Yellowstone. When she was sick, she asked me to watch the first two seasons with her. I hated everything about the show, especially the characters.
When she passed, I did not bother watching the rest of the show. I am glad that other folks enjoyed it though. 1883 was awesome. I could not get through 1923, which is a shame because I love Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren.
Anyway, thanks for this video. I always enjoy your content.
The first season of Yellowstone was good but yeah.
the downfall was the writers strike in 22 and Kevin's vanity project, and it felt like they did a whole season 6 in the last half of season 5, but yeasth Kevin leaving was the start
Kevin was ready to go but Sheridan stalled to do other shows
It was definitely the beginning of the end! Did you watch Horizon?
@@BrainPilot no not yet, i watched this Yellowstone Park doc, it was pretty good
@@BrainPilotwhat's Horizon?
It's the movie that Kevin Costner made after leaving Yellowstone. A trilogy of films but only the first one has been released
I loved who ended up owning the land by the end of the show. That was my choice from the very start.
It felt like that was going to be the case after 1883!
I personally hated all the cursing the Sheridan said in all his lines - totally unnecessary to the plot
1883 was good but what took me out of it was Elsa bury me in a Y shaped coffin Dutton sleeping with anything that moved and as for Yellowstone i checked out when Monica hit not just a buffalo but was hit by a drunk driver in the vast expanse of Montanan pick one! it all got to ridiculous
The ratings didn’t drop that’s for sure…Season 5B had the highest ratings ever for the show. The series final episode was watched by over 12 million cable viewers the actual night the finale aired.. not including repeated viewings later that night or the following day.
I think that’s something to celebrate in an era of streaming.
The number of people tuning in doesn't' equate to good ratings.
Here are the Rotten Tomato Critic/Audience scores for all the seasons:
S01: 58% / 83%
S02: 89% / 90%
S03: 100% / 87%
S04: 91% / 82%
S05: 79% / 40%
Season 5 has the lowest audience rating by a long shot. I can only assume that it will only get worse over time as people get to watch the finale and realize what kind of a wet fart the show ended with. Peak Yellowstone was S03, with the beginning of S04E01. The rest was a gradual decent in quality of writing.
1883 is great and my favorite as well. However, I disagree with you on 1 point. Beth didn't think of the loophole because a "modern business sense" wouldn't think of selling off he land for that cheap. The show ending was pretty good and having Jamie being compartmentalized needed to happen be cause he was the villain of the storyline. It wouldn't make sense to have him around the ranch at all. The last 6 episodes did feel a bit rushed but over all they did very well with what they had to work with. I'm looking forward to season 2 of 1923, hopefully it won't be rushed.
I'm done watching Taylor Sheridan shows. Terrible Season 5 which was just an ego stroking exercise for Sheridan.
1923 is basically the same show as Yellowstone with different characters
To me the show lost it's way in Season 4. Specifically right after the start of S4E1. The show had raised the stakes and sense of danger at it's highest point in the series.
But after that for reasons I will never understand. It started focusing on smaller plot points, and drama in the bunkhouse. John's dating an activist. Whether Beth will become a mom to the kid. Random inconsequential problems that are resolved quickly and that's it. The biggest thing in Season 4 is Jaimie killing his Dad, which was the season finale.
Season 5 felt extremely low stakes other than the finances of the ranch. After all these crazy kidnappings and shootings. The show's final boss is "inheritance tax". Such a letdown.
And lastly, there is no way in hell Beth, Rip and Lloyd would get away with Jaimie's murder. With them "cleverly" taking the body away and turning this into a manhunt. The authorities would for sure request a bunch of neighborhood ring cams, and traffic light cameras to be able to track Jaime and find him. If they'd do that they'd figure out really quickly that Jaime never drove his car away and that it was either Rip or Lloyd in the front seat. In this day and age you can't just roll up a murder in rug and get away with it. There's too many cameras everywhere for that to be possible. It would had to been planned to perfection, but as we know Beth was the only one aware this was going to happen. So everything was done in a rush and yet it all went off without a hitch 'off screen'. That ending was the huge pile of horse manure.
Also, Sheridan felt like a grown man roleplaying as a college frat boy in a cowboy outfit. Those strip poker scenes, both with the barrel racers, and Beth, was so vain and pathetic. I feel bad for him. Tell me you have ego problems without telling me.
lol at your inheritance tax as the final boss comment. Also yes, that’d have to be some extremely incompetent investigators who can’t figure out that Beth murdered Jamie. If they do a spin off of the two they’ll be suspects and the drama will be around them once again evading accountability in their lives. Pass.
Where is the knife? Where are the Ring Cameras? Jamie explained everything to his EX. No way was this murder of the Attorney General just going to stop. Way too many questions.
Jaime’s ex was power hungry. And she has a baby with him! She’s not gonna let that go. It’s just another loose end.
Material for the Beth and Rip spin off…ugh
Taylor Sheridan was getting paid as creator, for his ranch and his branding.
True
And getting paid for using his ranches, his cattle, his livestock, and and and...he socked it to the production company that was his as well and passed expenses on to the network. Kind of like having a circle business money grab.
I like how Beth and Carter developed but it felt like there wasn't much for him to do this time around. Except get Colby killed. He was just always in the background.
He and Rip also barely had scenes together where they talked and bonded. Never got the father son bond from them.
I think TS just has too many irons in the fire at the moment and the storytelling suffered. It doesn’t help when your most central character leaves the show, either. It’s too bad, because I really enjoyed this show the first three seasons.
It would be nice if someone could make a video comparing why Succession worked and Yellowstone failed. Both fathers died close to mid-season. Grant it, Succession was planned out with no off screen shenanigans.
There's only 1 person to blame and That's Shierdan
EXACTLY!💯💯💯💯
Couldn't agree more!
@@DatBoiChris420 Kevin Costner career was foundering badly , Yellowstone and Sheridan casting him as John Dutton relaunched him . Both are too blame the only losers were us the viewers.
@jonmorris6976 Costner was working with Shierdan and had a set schedule to work but shierdan being the ego maniac he is fucked it all up
He made it blatantly obvious too by injecting himself all up in the show in the most egotistical way possible 😂
Look Costner leaving was doing for his project which failed miserably . He wasn't easy to work with Yellowstone relaunched his career which was foundering. Those 2 could not work it out together sad
Yeah it's such a disappointment
@BrainPilot it is but Actors with massive egos like Costner both should own it but maybe it was for the best. As Luke Grimes said this was the easiest season to film . 5 Seasons were great The Mafia with Spurs
Are we actually getting 1944?
I believe so! Dates just haven't been announced yet
1883 and 1923 were fantastic. They’re great.
I love both of those
Same
Yeah they're awesome! 1883 is probably one of my favourite TV series ever
Season 5 had a big issue with balance the drama and the silliness
Yeah it's a shame!
I think, that the ranches faith was doomed, when Lee died in the first season. He was the one who could have maintained the legacy. And ffs, they could have sell it to Rip.
Agree again. Too much agreement 😂 Hence, I liked Horizon.
I hated the ending. What a lazy copout! Kevin gave that show gravitas, but he left Taylor thought he could substitute? He is not an actor and the worst thing is killing JAMIE OFF! he was the best actor on the show! Beth is OVERRATED
a drunk a slut and then a killer! It is not Jamie's fault for her decisions, nothing made sense in that storyline
I never watched it but it was on my list to do so.
It's worth a watch, but the ending happened for reasons outside of the shows control!
I stopped watching because I grew tired of Beth and Jamie. Once I understood why she hated Jamie, I thought that was crazy. If she told her dad, he would had taken RIP to the train station. Also, I think the clinic would had gave Jamie options to help his sister since they were both extremely young.
entire show all 5 seasons cause 2 kids got a hysterectomy that's the entire show. Everything else didn't matter.
Hmmm. I wanted to binge this but maybe I shouldn’t?
Definitely worth the watch but the final part of Season 5 just dips in quality at a rapid pace. It's got a wholesome ending but if Kevin hadn't left it would have been better
It’s still really so good.
@@4elizabeth The first season was. Everything afterwards…..
You still should 😊
I think the makers of the show were stuck between a rock and hard place when Kevin Costner left
Definitely! Was always going to be difficult to write an ending
I’m so sick of TS exploiting Montana 😭
I doubt I’ll watch any more spinoffs. I loved 1883. Unpopular opinion, I don’t like Spencer in 1923. Or his wife.
1883 was utter GOLD. 1923 was pretty… ok.’
If you’re referring to the English girl, I think her acting was good but her character was meh.
They killed him off screen?
Horizon is not a mess nor is it hard to follow. Sick of these AI RUclips channels
I didn’t even watch it only recaps and i felt there was something missing
The first 3 seasons were great, then the writing was terrible...with lots of 10 min scenes with horses parading around was just boring! I also hated Beth what a horrible woman!.....The way she degrades men at a bar WHY?....I did not see the funny side of it! and had hoped she would get bumped off
It should have stopped after the first season IMO.
I did like the 1883 more, too
Yeah 1883 was incredible!
Frank Underwood-itis
i glad i nver start watcing this series
Jamie was my boy
💜
A very stupid ending!!!
John and Beth, heroes ??? Na ! 😂
Beth winning was the worst
I wasn’t surprised when Beth went after Jaime but I didn’t think she would actually kill him. I did love the final episode. It tied up loose ends. The land was returned to the rightful people. I thought John Dutton’s funeral would have been bigger. He influenced and knew a lot of ranchers. Sheridan put himself in the last few episodes because Costner left.
Season 5 was like poorly written fanfiction.
John Dutton was a flawed character who was very honest about his flaws just like all the other characters on Yellowstone.
Lioness is waaaaay better.. Landman is trash
Bold statement!
The guy that made this video forgot to mention the writers artist guild strike right in the middle of this show that crippled it and played a big part in the downward trend. Not to mention taylor sheridan had to deal with egomaniac kevin costner just leaving. i think he did a good job with the shit hand he was dealt. i mean, when costner left he kinda left him out to dry. I liked the ending. But this shows downfall is not taylor sheridans fault, all on kevin costner/writers strike.
Sheridan is a hack. Did great in hell or Highwater though.