Beth will somehow get Christina to leave Jamie and take his son with her. Either by telling her that he killed Garrett, or she’ll blackmail Jamie into leaving her by using the picture she took. Now he is back to being John’s henchman, serving as his slave like he’s done all his life. I hope Jamie tors off the rails and takes it all down! He knows he would also be ruined, but he won’t care anymore.
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The whole Beth/Jamie photo thing doesn't make a lot of sense. Jamie has two ways out of this as I see it.
One, Beth took one picture of Jamie with a burlap bag with feet. He could easily stage the same thing wearing the same clothes like it was a joke. Take some more pictures of Jamie with the body bag laughing with friends. "I think Beth is cracking up Detective Smith"..
Or, look at it this way: John and Rip have just as much to lose as Jamie does if Beth turned the photo in to the authorities. There are a lot of bodies at the train station...
Indeed, there's so much absurd pusillanimity in Jamie. It goes beyond weak writing, esp. of a show rated 8.8 on imdb.
First: how did Jamie ever betray John in the first place? He quit the AG race, refused backing from Rainwater, even got kicked out of his girlfriend's apartment as a result. All in order not to go against John. Yet John issues that threat "betray me again & you're dead to me."
Getting to the finale. Jamie should have covered his tracks, knowing John or Kayce would have followed up with the convict. Then he entertains Beth in his office. Yet again. Why not have her thrown out before she can say a word. She has a gun when capital police arrive? All the better.
Beth threatens to tell Rip about the baby & abortion. How is the guy who doesn't have a drivers license or birth certificate going to find Jamie wherever he might hide in the world? How is Rip supposed to believe that even at a younger age Jamie made Beth do anything? If she had an abortion, it was her choice. She also chose the reservation rather than town. Yeah, Jamie should have told her, but she should also have known. And I don't buy hysterectomy. Tubal ligation, perhaps. But hysterectomy is more than day surgery. Tubal can sometimes be reversed.
And how did he happen to know exactly where the bodies were dumped? (And why did Beth?) As pointed out, he could claim that what he's hoisting isn't a body at all. Just a bag of feed. Anything. But of course he won't.
Bad as Beth is, Jamie is worse for accepting all of this. Garrett was dead wrong to think he'd taught Jamie to stand for himself. I don't see how he's let John or the family down. Why John would regard him as a failure or disappointment. But he can't or won't confront him even on that topic. Nevermind the praise he got for handling the lease v. purchase issue.
Much as I enjoy seeing this part of the country, I probably won't follow anymore of Yellowstone.
I agree with what you say, but I think you're being too hard on the writing. Face it, no "law abiding" family (and by that I mean not a mafia or drug lord family) would have nearly the drama and murders that the Duttons face.
I poke some fun at the writing a bit but love the show anyway despite its faults.
The hysterectomy is complete nonsense. Indian hospitals were well known to tie the tubes of women without their consent and were later sued for it... but a hysterectomy would be far too extreme and would have been easily detected by the patients that the practice would have been noticed and litigation started within a couple of patients. Not to mention Beth would look nothing like she does on the show if she had undergone a hysterectomy at such a young age and not been told about it and placed on hormone therapy drugs. That's just another of the writing thinking something sounds good but not bothering to consider what it would actually mean if it happened.
shareNot to mention Beth going to the authorities later on would stir up the obvious question, "Why didn't you come to us sooner?"
The whole show started becoming a joke a while ago. I will still watch it but I am also mourning the chance of something a little different and of what could have been a much better program.
As this has turned soap opera I will side with the fans that want proof that that is his baby.
Also, I couldn't stop laughing at her return speech, "Now that you are no longer under his thumb we can be a family."
Calm down sis.
She's not in love with Jamie. She's in love with Governor Jamie Dutton.