MAJOR spoilers for Yellowstone’s Season 5B premiere are forward! If you’re not caught up, you catch it in re-runs on The Paramount Community as new episodes air each Sunday at 8 p.m. ET.
Within the first moments of Yellowstone’s long-awaited Season 5B premiere, it was revealed that John Dutton is lifeless. Whereas it seems like a suicide, it’s closely implied that it was a homicide and that Jamie’s girlfriend-of-sorts, Sarah Atwood, is behind it, as a result of the Dutton sibling inquired about it. So, with all that in thoughts, I couldn’t cease interested by Jamie’s response to the information of his father’s loss of life and Wes Bentley’s tragic feedback relating to how his character is impacted by John’s opinions of him.
Earlier than John Dutton died, he said his opinions of his youngsters in Season 5, Episode 5. He stated he pitied one (seemingly Kayce), missed one other (in all probability Lee), envied Beth, and regretted the opposite one. That remorse is greater than seemingly over his adopted son Jamie. So, after I interviewed the forged of Yellowstone concerning the new episodes, I requested Wes Bentley about this opinion Kevin Costner’s character had and the way it impacted Jamie. In response, he stated:
I believe John’s opinions of particularly Jamie is a giant motivator in his life within the sense that he does not get any from John, and he is simply desperately on the lookout for it. And, and it is complicated for him, as a result of he is carried out every part requested of him – together with change who he’s as a elementary human being. And so, you understand, that fuels Jamie in each scene.
In Season 5, Episode 9 – the primary of six new Yellowstone episodes set to air on the 2024 TV schedule – Jamie is seen reacting to John’s loss of life. We watch him mourn over his father, and even cry on the finish. Whereas he did ask Sarah Atwood about hiring somebody to off his relations after Beth declared warfare on him, it appeared that he totally purchased that his dad died by suicide. Though, to me, it appeared fairly apparent that it was successful organized by the lady he’d been sleeping with.
Nevertheless, the approval from John that Jamie is at all times on the lookout for, as Bentley identified, appears to be clouding him within the episode. Whereas he wished to take down his household, it’s additionally clear that he’s unhappy about what occurred. Up till Season 5, principally, he’d at all times been loyal to a fault to his dad, and John formed his son into the person he wished him to be but in addition hated – a lawyer. Now, Jamie appears misplaced.
This entire state of affairs jogged my memory of the dialog I had with the American Magnificence actor about his character’s relationship together with his father and the loyalty he had. His reply, to me, provides a whole lot of context to Jamie’s advanced response to John’s destiny:
It is one thing I could not resolve if his loyalty being his detriment, is that one thing simply inside him or is {that a} coping mechanism? When you find yourself being somebody you probably not are, you are leaning on the people who find themselves telling you who you’re. And John’s that particular person. And so I believe he is misplaced with out that. I do not suppose I’ve ever been capable of finding him exterior of that.
Jamie definitely is misplaced, and it might seem that Sarah is capitalizing on it. She’s utilizing his loyalty to control him, and it seemingly is what prompted the downfall of John Dutton.
I’m now questioning how the looming opinion John had of Jamie and Jamie’s loyalty to John regardless of it would influence the remainder of his choices in Season 5B. Now that he’s misplaced the person who formed him into who he’s – which is somebody he was compelled to be – I’m curious to see if Bentley’s character totally retaliates towards the opposite Duttons or if he’ll shrivel beneath all this and let Sarah use him.
Both possibility is feasible, and we’ll get to see the way it performs out as Yellowstone continues airing on the Paramount Community each Sunday at 8 p.m. ET. To return and see how Jamie and John’s relationship developed to the tragic level it was at when the patriarch died, you may stream Seasons 1 via 5A of the Western with a Peacock subscription.