![]() ![]() The flashback device will be used throughout the episode and into the next, signaling a departure from previous seasons-which have employed flashbacks, but never to this extent. Speaking of Beth (Kelly Reilly), we’re then shown a flashback, after the commercial break, of an 18-year-old Beth asking Rip on a date. Warner then tells him to call for Sarah Atwood, likely a large power player this season and Beth's antagonist in the struggle to retain Jamie’s allegiance. Ellis Steele (John Emmet Tracy), whose firm represents Market Equities, points out Jamie’s dejection. ![]() Next, we see Caroline Warner (Jacki Weaver) freaking out while watching the speech. It’s not good for Rainwater, because the election makes John more powerful and reinforces his grip on the Yellowstone, the land the reservation has contested since Season 1. Rainwater: “It’s a good thing for the land, but I don’t see how it’s good for us.” It’s good for the land, because John will cut funding for both the hotel and airport (Market Equities’ investments). He’s asked by Mo (Moses Brings Plenty) whether the result is good or bad for the reservation. First, we see Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham). Watching the speech on TV are both Dutton antagonists. Jamie (Wes Bentley) is despondent, clearly still harboring ambition for office, but held in check by Beth’s evidence of his patricide. ![]() He’s just defeated McMullen (the first of the show’s many representations of parasitic out-of-state coastal elite scum) and goes on stage to give a victory speech. It’s early morning after election night and John Dutton (Kevin Costner) definitely doesn’t want to be governor. The season’s core question, then, isn’t whether or not the Dutton Ranch will be saved, but rather who will own the land once it is. We’re likely coming full circle this season, back to this struggle. As Angela says to Thomas during Episode 2, “We’re right back where we started.” And this applies to the series as much as the season the very first season mostly focused on the struggle over land between the Duttons and the Broken Rock Indian Reservation. While the latter appears to be set up as the main antagonist this season-alongside all metaphors for coastal elitism-it appears as if Rainwater will be John’s key opponent. (We know this because Monica, only a few weeks into her pregnancy at the end of Season 4, is now just shy of three weeks due.) The new season immediately finds John as victor of the Montana governor’s race, a result that tosses the ball back to the courts of Chief Thomas Rainwater and Caroline Warner (Market Equities). Season 5 kicks off around eight months later. Kayce’s season-long journey is sandwiched into ten minutes of hallucinatory screen time during which some kind of Dutton doom is prophesied. Summer Higgins happens, but, like, who cares. Jamie vs Dutton daddy, John Dutton, for governor. Jamie learns his daddy hired the attack on his Dutton daddy. Girls are allowed in the bunkhouse everyone fights. John Dutton doesn’t die after getting shot. Before we jump in-spurs first-to the two-episode Season 5 premiere of Yellowstone, let’s quickly recap the previous season. ![]()
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