The latest Yellowstone brings a surprise death, while Jamie plots to steal his dad’s job
With "Cigarettes, Whiskey, a Meadow and You," season 5 puts a spotlight on everything the Duttons fight for and why
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First, the good news: Clara survives the great gathering of cattle that takes up most of the run time on this week’s somber Yellowstone. Now for the bad news: the same can’t be said for Emmet, the old friend/ranch hand that dies in his sleep on John’s mountain—which, according to John, is the kind of death “every cowboy dreams of.” Meanwhile, a small nightmare awaits the Duttons back in town, because of politics and once again (*visible eyeroll*) Jamie. As Rip would say, let’s go to work:
Here’s What Went Down
On horseback, John leads Rip, Beth, Kayce, Clara and Emmet deep into the ranch’s most beautiful locations to round up roughly 1,000 cows for a big branding ceremony. The trip makes obvious everything that John fights for, and it makes everything waiting for him back in the governorship seem kinda pointless, especially when his backyard is nothing but rolling hills and magic hour. Emmet’s peaceful death (and the poignant way John relays it to the old man’s widow) reinforces that, as does Monica giving Summer a tour of the ranch and insight into the Duttons’ way of life.
And then there’s Jamie, who once again threatens to upend all of it thanks to the valley-sized chip on his shoulder and the way Sarah fills him with the promise of the governorship (and lots of ’90s-Cinemax shower sex). All Jamie has to do is give Sarah and her bosses their airport. And, well, betray his father and ruin his entire family. Classic Jamie.
Tonight’s Best Line
“Cities are the opposite of nature. They defy it, which is why they always crumble.”—Monica
Monica (with the help of Taylor Sheridan’s on-point dialogue) sums up both the reason for, and the futility of, all the conference room debates and city politics surrounding the Duttons and their ranch. None of that really matters. What does is the knowledge she imparts on Summer about how the world really works out here. Sure, having a cause and committing fiercely to it the way this fiery environmentalist does is better than nothing. But after Monica gives Summer a tour of the Yellowstone, which is a basically museum dedicated to the Duttons and their lives there, Summer seems to realize that she needs more than just her bumper-sticker friendly convictions. She’s just punching at straw men in corner offices with political agendas, and protesting rich white folk who work to prolong that which will never stand the test of time and corruption.
Burning Questions
1. What is going to happen to Rainwater?
Rainwater’s job and influence are at risk, thanks to Angela (Q’orianka Kilcher). She has, seemingly off-screen, become director of Native American Affairs, working for the president (because Yellowstone), and shes’s invited the POTUS to the valley so he can endorse young upstart Martin for Rainwater’s chairman position. Angela is delivering on her threat to shorten Rainwater’s tenure as the leader of her people, but Rainwater is not going without a fight. What exactly that fight will look like, or what John’s role in it will be, remains unclear. Here’s hoping he gets to go all John Wick on those a-hole Secret Service operatives in TAC gear who shot and killed two dogs (pets!) because they were (sigh) seen as security threats.
2. How will Jamie and Sarah get rid of John?
For a minute there, the final moments of the episode strongly implied that killing John was not off the table. (And, as fans know, murder doesn’t seem to be much of a problem for Jamie.) But the trailer for next week’s episode seems to indicate that Sarah is hatching a plot to impeach John from the Governor’s mansion so Jamie can move in. There are a lot of moving parts to that plan, and John has proved himself capable of outmaneuvering anyone trying to paint a target on his back—especially Jamie. We’ll see how close Jamie gets to his dream job, and how far John and Beth will go to stop him.
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Why is this show of all things being regularly covered? Is the AVclub so desperate for that Boomer audience?
It’s one of the most popular shows on television. Calling it a “boomer” show displays ignorance of a high degree.
You can tell how popular it is around here by the amount of discussion about the episode…
Lotta NCIS discussion around here? There is no link at all between a bunch of goobers commenting on how stupid Barsanti is and the popularity of a show.
My NCIS headcanon is that Gibbs is actually Freddy Shoop from Summer School. See, after that crazy ass summer, Shoop realized that being a teacher wasn’t for him, so he signed up for the Navy under an assumed(and silly as hell sounding) name: Leroy Jethro Gibbs. He was no good at actually sailing but it turned out that he had a very good investigate mind so he was assigned to NCIS, eventually running the whole thing.And that is the only reason NCIS is watchable, especially after Pauley Parrette left.
And then Dick Grayson realized he was hanging out with a grown-ass man who dressed like a fucking bat, left and changed his name, but still wanted to help.And now we know where Sam Beckett went…
You left out his short internship as a secret service agent in the West Wing.
Yeah that’s better off not being mentioned, the SS has had enough of bad press lately.
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lmao you think because it’s popular on TV that a broad variety of people watch it?
So is NCIS:Whateverthfuck and Blue Bloods. Popularity doesn’t preclude something from being a Boomer show.
OK, right-wing boomer.
Is a rabid badger holding a gun on you, forcing you to click?
Cuz it’s a super popular show? This season’s premier was 12.1 million live-plus-same day views. Which in these days of TV, is pretty massive.Like it’s ridiculous in so many ways but it’s also utterly entertaining because it’s ridiculous.
Yo, where my Blue Bloods fans at?!
Why do A-holes have to make comments? You don’t have to click on it if you don’t want to. Move along little doggie.
I’ve never watched it, and probably never will watch it. But when a show becomes a behemoth and something of a pop culture phenomenon, you probably can’t ignore it forever if you’re running an entertainment website.
Right. I don’t watch it so neither does anyone else. Same for those weird little stranger kids.
Why do you even care? How does this show being covered affect your way of life in anyway?
Jesus Slapping Tom Cruise In The Face, that Kilcher woman can’t fucking act. Bentley can’t act. Costner is phoning it in. The others are non-entitites. Reilly is amping it up beyond parody. Only Cole Hauser and Gil Birmingham seem to get the assignment.
weird writing on this ep. Monica is being made into a major dutton ally instead of the native intellectual that she actually is. And Summer, for an environmentalist, is so unaware of everything this season. She’s being written as being so uninformed, and that just doesn’t seem to be who she was originally.
Sheridan is out of ideas and is just resorting to hippie punching.
“ And Summer, for an environmentalist, is so unaware of everything this season.”The show found it’s audience. It’s audience wants libs to look stupid, incompetent and/or hypocritical. It’s hard to write interesting, believable characters when you have an axe to grind.
…shes’s invited the POTUS to the valley so he can endorse young upstart
Martin for Rainwater’s chairman position. Angela is delivering on her
threat to shorten Rainwater’s tenure as the leader of her people, but
Rainwater is not going without a fight.
This part seemed pretty stupid to me. You’d think the Secret Service coming in and killing people’s dogs for no reason would piss off the local community and take any power out of that endorsement. That shit would be so easy to campaign against…this guy cares so little about his own people that he’s perfectly comfortable having people’s pets shot dead in the street just for a photo op. Like, that was laughably easy to come up with. Rainwater shouldn’t be worried at all.
Does it really matter if Jamie becomes governor? Beth still has the mother of all blackmail photos.
Or rather, the father…
Haha!
LOL. Are you really a professional TV critic? Your analysis of “Jamie bad” is about as basic as that of the rabid Dutton fans online. Yikes!
The Jamie/Sarah storyline is absolutely ridiculous, even by Yellowstone standards.
One of the biggest roadblocks to Jamie getting rid of John in any way, shape, or form is that Beth will literally kill him. You’d have to kill Beth first, and stronger men than him have tried and failed.