After therapizing him (but insisting that she’s “the rock therapists break themselves against”), she accompanies him back inside, even comforting him after he says his resentful good-byes to his brain-dead dad. While sitting outside the hospital, she meets a 14-year-old troublemaker whose heroin-addict father is dying. That scene aside, though, Beth has the most striking subplot of the episode. Beth has good reason to hate him, but her constant tirades don’t do her any favors. I’ve gotten a bit sick of the sheer repetitiveness of the Beth-Jamie scenes, to be honest. But when I do it, I’m not going to farm it out like you, you fucking coward.” In the mad panic to find who inflicted all this pain, she does the predictable thing and goes to Jamie’s office to throw stuff at him and even accuse him of arranging the hits. Even when he makes it home after two months in the hospital, John can’t stand being babied by the nurse.īeth, with her back covered in burns, might have the longest-lasting visible wounds. Rip’s cabin, gifted to him by John not too long ago, is burned to the ground. (This is also my least favorite moment of the episode because I love Josh Holloway and because Roarke never really lived up to his potential in the little screen time he had.)īut “Half the Money” doesn’t skimp on the trauma of this moment, even if it’s a miracle everyone survived (including Kayce, who did take fire). (As I recall, Dan Jenkins is the only one with that honor.) In fact, the only named character who actually dies in the episode is secondary antagonist Roarke, who quickly succumbs to a rattlesnake bite after Rip tosses one at his face. Of course, everyone makes it out alive because Yellowstone rarely kills off a main character. And Beth stumbles out of an exploded building, bumming a smoke while she waits for her hearing to return and the shell shock to wear off. His wife, Monica, almost gets killed back at the Dutton lodge and only survives because their son, Tate, shoots the guy dead.
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Kayce puts his Army training to work by defending the livestock commissioner’s office from a team of gunmen, then by tracking down the van full of men who shot John and putting them out of commission.
John Dutton, bleeding out on the side of the road, is smart enough to scrawl a note warning Rip what his shooter’s van looked like. It begins by dunking us headfirst right back into the action for ten minutes with a high-octane battle on multiple fronts. “Half the Money” is a great premiere because its two sides fit together better than ever. “Good balance” doesn’t have to mean equal proportion it just means the two sides need to fit well together to work symbiotically. They’re both Yellowstone.īut when this show finds a good balance between its two identities and employs even a little subtlety, it can hit both targets: effective character drama and good pulpy fun. Neither half of the show is better than the other. On the other side, big-city developers and small-town crooks take turns threatening the lives of a family (and a moblike “Family”). On one side, there are long, discursive conversations about history, ownership, and what we owe to our families, our land, and ourselves. It’s not always a natural mix: The more grounded the show is, the more jarring it can be to suddenly introduce a subplot focused on corporate espionage or any of the many surprisingly easy cover-ups of murder. Viewers have come for the show’s crazy blend of relaxed ranch drama and kinetic western thriller for three seasons. But it’s a reasonable question for any show on its fourth season: What are we here for, and where are we headed? Yellowstone probably isn’t going anywhere for a while. Gwntterssssss! We are kicking off the countdown to season 4 of Yellowstone by bringing you all the recaps! Join us as we dive into Season One of the critically acclaimed Yellowstone, where the drama and the obsession all started! We jump back in the saddle (and the puns) by recapping all the important moments in each episode- Aleta has impeccable taste in pulling all the great lines and helps us all reminisce about the best parts of Season One. Since we are trying to cover as much as possible, this will be a two-parter- This first drop contains coverage on the first 5 episodes- To quote both of us There's just so much! Here we are introduced to the catalyst that starts everything off, John Dutton, the patriarch of Yellowstone Ranch and his grown children, Lee, Jamie, Beth & Kayce- all vying for their place in this tumultuous and cutthroat world.The show’s ratings are better than ever not one but two spinoffs were announced this year, one of which premieres next month. About Ep 72: Yellowstone Season 1, Part 1 Recap Episode
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