Main spoilers for everybody who hasn’t but seen Yellowstone’s Season 5B premiere, so be warned!
Holy shit, y’all. We’ve been ready practically two years for Yellowstone’s last Season 5 episodes, and I’m fairly certain each conceivable speculation has been thought of regarding how the western would clarify Kevin Costner’s John Dutton both being absent or all of a sudden returning after all of the behind-the-scenes points. However now TV’s most dramatic batch of cowboys and cowgirls is again on the Fall TV season, and there’s not any have to make wild guesses. Now we all know: John’s as useless as a doornail. Or a horseshoe nail, because it have been.
Let’s dig into how the Paramount Community hit arrange its last chapter forward of the spinoff The Madison and different upcoming Yellowstone exhibits.
Yellowstone Killed Off John Dutton By Suspected Suicide
Whereas some sequence probably would have waited till the ultimate moments of the midseason premiere to drag the blood-spattered toilet rug out, Yellowstone dropped its greatest blow on viewers earlier than the opening titles even began. Beth and Kayce arrive on the Governor’s Mansion to seek out it surrounded by warning tape and police, and after it is clear that nobody actually offers a shit about them strolling round inside, they each bear witness to one among their worst nightmares.
As they see, John is discovered on the ground of the toilet with a gun close by, and blood spattered towards the wall, and presumably no less than yet another signal of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. When the mud settled within the hours after the physique was discovered, the story that went public is that John dedicated suicide. I used to be legitimately shocked by all of those particulars coming to mild already, however in fact nothing was actually because it appeared.
However John Was Nearly Undoubtedly Murdered
Having not watched the earlier Season 5 episode shortly, I wasn’t routinely desirous about Jamie and Sarah’s prior dialog about having a 3rd social gathering enter the fray in an effort to take the elder Dutton out of the image. However that element was hammered house through the flashback sequence by which Sarah visited a security-heightened website and met with a suspicious-looking gent named “Grant.”
Although no person mentions John or Jamie by identify, Grant does check with “Mr. Dutton” and the “Legal professional Common,” and is roughly as specific when laying it out that his workforce will make it look as if the Dutton patriarch killed himself, regardless of Sarah questioning one other path of execution. Logistically, his reasoning made sense, however he clearly has no concept how unbelievable a situation that’s for this household.
I am not solely certain how I really feel about Yellowstone introducing a super-secret group of assassins which might be able to homicide below the guise of accidents. However for the sake of this weird-ass last half-season, I am going to purchase in with no matter’s presently in my pockets. In the event that they’re able to knocking the facility out on the mansion in order that surveillance cameras are unusable, they have to be fairly formidable.
How Closely Will Jamie Pay For What He is Performed?
Beth may not be a detective, however she pulled off a part of a Clue-esque victory by instantly blaming Jamie for John’s loss of life, regardless of the bodily proof she noticed together with her personal eyes. And although Kayce is initially hesitant to fall according to her suspicions, he did appear effectively on his solution to being satisfied by the tip of the premiere.
However is there any solution to really show that Jamie was accountable at this level? Certain, if Sarah fesses as much as others and explains all the things she did, that will in all probability have an effect, however given her profession place and presumed disinterest in going to jail, I doubt she’d squeal.
Barring any of that, it will probably come right down to Jamie crumpling below stress and giving himself up, however I do not suppose Beth or Rip would even let him get that far into it earlier than ripping his throat open, although Kayce may let him end no less than one sentence first. Which is to say, I can not think about a situation the place Jamie ends this season going off to jail for his crimes as a substitute of taking an ill-fated experience to the practice station.
Additionally, I think about there shall be whiskey-soaked riots if Yellowstone ends with out Beth going full-ham on Jamie’s face and torso and genitals and limbs, so even when there is a last-minute twist that reveals John by chance shot himself whereas dropping a deuce in the bathroom, Beth will no less than nonetheless get to avenge her unconceived youngsters in a most deadly method.
Keep tuned for extra twists and turns from Yellowstone when new episodes air each Sunday evening on Paramount Community at 8:00 p.m. ET. Here is hoping CBS is ready to air extra of the present season by way of broadcast.