Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-15 (Sunday)

On 2024-12-16 4:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

I watched:
 

The Yellowstone finale. Paramount is billing this as a season finale but it felt a whole lot more like a series finale. (I wonder if the follow-on show with Beth and Rip will be called Yellowstone so that Paramount can claim that show is season 6?)
John Dutton is finally laid to rest. The various cowboys get final pay packets and references to go to other ranches. Kayce and Beth agree on how to save the ranch by selling it back to the Indians for the same price land went for in the 1880s; the Indians set about tearing down the ranch, fences, buildings, and all. Beth and Rip buy a new, much smaller ranch in the middle of nowhere. Kayce and family decide to stay in the property they've been living in for the past several episodes, which Rainwater agrees that they can have. Jamie gives a speech claiming to be completely unconnected to the events around his father's death and prompting media to say that he might make a good governor. Beth keeps her promise to Jamie and avenges her father's death. Jamie goes to the Train Station and Beth gets away with it.
I've seen articles that said this episode was crap but I thought it was a reasonable end to the story. It would have been better if the Duttons had found a way to save the ranch - hey, we all like a happy ending, right? - but agriculture as a whole is a dying way of life, whether it is cattle ranching, farming, or whatever. A century ago, nearly everyone lived on farms; now, hardly anyone does.
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Rhino