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As Yellowstone got here to an finish on the 2024 TV schedule, I spotted one plot level was by no means addressed: Rip did not discover out what Jamie did to Beth after they have been youngsters. Wes Bentley’s character giving a clinic permission to abort Kelly Reilly’s character’s child and make her sterile is the lynchpin of Jamie and Beth’s feud. So, contemplating all of this and the truth that it’s the rationale why Rip and Beth can’t have organic kids, it feels bizarre that they by no means addressed the truth that Cole Hauser’s character by no means discovered about all this within the remaining episodes.
To recap, within the remaining episode of Yellowstone’s fifth season, Beth avenged her dad and received her revenge by killing Jamie. The 2’s decades-long feud lastly reached a head, and Reilly’s character beat her brother to a pulp earlier than he died. Then, Rip confirmed up and took care of the physique.
Now, to an extent, I perceive why all this occurred with out Rip discovering out that Jamie is the rationale why Beth can’t have youngsters. If he discovered in regards to the abortion clinic and the selection to make her sterile, Hauser’s character probably would have gone right into a rage and killed his spouse’s brother with out pondering twice about it.
Beth wanted to be the one to take out Jamie, that a lot is obvious. So, in that manner, I get why she by no means advised Rip. And total, I preferred how Beth and Jamie’s story got here to an in depth.
Nonetheless, this looks like a large, huge plot level that feels incomplete, as a result of Rip nonetheless doesn’t know. Rip and Beth are married. They inform one another the whole lot. So, this looks like a fairly large factor to not speak in confidence to your important different sooner or later or one other – particularly when the man who induced all that is nonetheless alive.
Whereas I don’t suppose Rip discovering out about all this in any universe would finish effectively for Jamie, I might have preferred all three of them to get some closure on this huge life-altering occasion.
Additionally, for probably the most half, each plot line was wrapped up within the finale of Yellowstone. Jamie died. Kayce freed himself from his household’s land and Rainwater received the ranch. Rip, Beth and Carter moved to a brand new ranch to start out a brand new life. Even the bunkhouse boys received endings to their tales. Nonetheless, this huge shadow nonetheless looms over Beth and Rip, as a result of he’s nonetheless not conscious of what actually induced her rivalry along with her brother and why they’ll’t have youngsters, and that bothers me.
It feels bizarre to handle it within the Rip and Beth spinoff, as a result of the opposite particular person concerned in the entire battle is useless. Perhaps Beth simply needs to maneuver ahead and overlook her previous. Nonetheless, I’ve a sinking feeling it is going to all come again, and I don’t need to see it hurt Hauser and Reilly characters’ relationship as a result of she didn’t inform him sooner.
Total, not addressing this plot level within the remaining season of Yellowstone looks like an oversight, and now it’s exhausting for me to fathom the way it might be addressed shifting ahead. I don’t love the concept of Rip by no means figuring out about this occasion that modified his associate’s life endlessly. Nonetheless, I additionally respect Beth’s need to maintain this a secret.
I suppose we’ll simply have to attend and see if it’s addressed in Rip and Beth’s upcoming Yellowstone present, and within the meantime, we will all return and rewatch Yellowstone on Peacock to see how all these dynamics developed and culminated within the demise of Jamie Dutton.