Spoilers under for the Season 5 finale of Yellowstone, so be warned if you happen to haven’t but watched.
Indubitably, Yellowstone’s return with Season 5’s ultimate episodes has been one of many greatest occasions of the 2024 TV schedule, even when reactions have been combined relating to how the Kevin Costern-less season has dealt with John Dutton’s loss of life and the aftermath inspiring a number of upcoming Yellowstone sequence. Regardless of one’s emotions, Taylor Sheridan’s co-creation has now formally closed out its fifth season with an enormous and lethal finale. (Here is how you can watch!)
Fortunately, Yellowstone did certainly repay on one long-promised loss of life, whereas additionally boosting my spirits with a shock reveal that would probably shake up our expectations for the 6666 spinoff, which might actually use a behind-the-scenes replace or two at this level. Let’s take a better look — although from a protected, DNA-safe distance — at one of many western drama’s most ruthless and gripping hand-to-hand brawls.
Beth Lastly Murdered Jamie, However Solely After A WWE-Esque Kitchen Brawl
With Beth and Rip’s spinoff already set to hold Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser’s characters into a brand new arc or two, I had the innate concern that Sheridan would make an ill-advised name to stave off murdering Jamie in order that the heated sibling feud might lengthen into the continuation sequence. That concern constructed up after Jamie’s solely early scenes had been completely about his press convention speech.
Fortunately for all concerned, aside from perhaps Wes Bentley, Jamie Dutton did certainly meet his maker with a damaged face, a deep stab wound, and pepper spray nonetheless burning his ever-shifty eyes. And Beth didn’t waste a single second after leaving John’s burial to drunkenly hit the street with Jamie in her crosshairs.
I most likely would have been disenchanted had Beth shortly taken Jamie out with out him realizing what was taking place, No such worries with this ep, nevertheless. Jamie was barely within the door after his public deal with earlier than Beth rearranged his face with a tire iron and coated most of his torso in pepper spray. Which then led to one of the horrifying Yellowstone visuals conceivable: Jamie’s bloody face fully coated in milk.
Almost as horrifying is the brutality of Beth and Jamie’s combat, with the older brother getting far more wallops on Beth’s face, even when he was solely utilizing his weak and silly Jamie fists. (Take that, ya dumb corpse.) However it seems Beth had a purpose to let Jamie beat the shit out of her, even when he probably took it additional than she thought, since she wanted as many bodily accidents as she might incur to promote her story to the cops.
That stated, Rip supposedly left an hour after Beth did, however was in a position to burst into Jamie’s home within the nick of time and cease him from choking her to loss of life. We’ll let that one go, since Beth was ready in the home earlier than Jamie acquired dwelling, however nonetheless.
In any case, the episode ended with Beth and Rip at their new property exterior of Dillon, seemingly with none worries about Jamie’s wrapped-up physique or incinerated car being discovered. I’ve to surprise if that security will likely be threatened within the upcoming spinoff, or in the event that they’ll produce other worries to cope with.
I Love That Teeter Will get A Glad Ending, And Hope She’s In The 6666 Spinoff
For a a lot happier ending, we flip to Jen Landon’s Teeter, who has been coping with greater than her share of emotional on-screen moments tied to Colby’s really tragic death-by-horse in “Counting Coup.” She’s been all the way down to some low depths that not even card-game shenanigans might fully shake her out of at first, and did not appear to have a transparent future to observe her time cowboying it up on the Yellowstone, which was bought off to Rainwater.
Nevertheless, Jimmy and Emily’s return for the funeral gave Teeter an opportunity to carve a brand new path ahead for herself by touring all the way down to Texas to attempt her hand working with…errr…for Travis. Not that the gig looks like it could be straightforward within the slightest, since Travis is a strict sumbitch whose pure intuition is to troll his workers into submission, nevertheless it’s a step in a optimistic and grounded course that she did not have earlier than.
Teeter has been one in all my favourite Yellowstone regulars since she arrived, and is without doubt one of the few TV characters whose dialogue I really take pleasure in placing closed captioning on to decipher. Landon makes the character really feel fully lived in regardless of solely getting a couple of minutes an episode at most to indicate off her expertise. I am going to miss her probably the most if we do not ever contact base together with her once more, however…
I am actually hoping that Teeter’s story conclusion means Landon will likely be revealed as a brand new addition to the 6666 solid, since Yellowstone‘s flagship ending means the ranch-based spinoff has extra of a purpose to exist and keep it up these characters’ tales. All this time, I have been wholly pondering Ryan Bingham’s Walker can be the one different Yellowstone common becoming a member of Jefferson White’s Jimmy in Texas, and it looks like that would nonetheless occur along with his and Laramie’s story feeling fairly open-ended.
However whereas it’s going to be nice to see them once more and all, Teeter getting a cheerful ending is kind of probably my favourite factor about Yellowstone‘s ultimate six episodes. So for that, and for loads of different memorable moments throughout all 5 seasons, I thank Taylor Sheridan and all of the widlly gifted solid members for preserving us within the Duttons’ lives. And in addition for killing off Jamie, for the entire apparent causes.
It’s unclear when the whole lot of Season 5 will likely be obtainable to stream with a Peacock subscription, nevertheless it’ll probably occur earlier than the subsequent season of a modern-day Yellowstone spinoff airs. 1923 Season 2 is about to hit the 2025 TV schedule on February 25, with the Michelle Pfeiffer-starring The Madison coming in some unspecified time in the future later.