#also i am begging this show to let monica have an actual storyline again

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Oohh, you got a lock and loaded rant about Yellowstone that you would like to share? (Mine would be a simple note that it's hard to be interested when the writers can't stop jerking their main characters off and write some actual nuanced characters with different view point that leads to interesting conflict)

OH BOY DO I. I literally had to delete it from that previous post because I was going off on the same tangent as I've been going off on for the last week, but my basic problems with Yellowstone are: - With a handful of exceptions, the characters are all becoming the unfun kind of unlikeable and I’m not sure the show knows this - Characters standing around while others deliver zingers and don’t retort back can work occasionally to show when a character is overwhelmed, but too often it’s used just to jerk off the character of the scene and after five seasons of it I’m bored - And most severely: STOP MAKING ME WANT TO DEFEND JAMIE, I DO NOT WANT TO DEFEND JAMIE Do you know how hard a show has to fuck up for me to stop liking a character like Beth?  She is my JAM, a hot mess of a lady character who has all these hard, jagged edges, who is legitimately mean and cruel at times, but there’s such worth to her, in her soul, she has her massive internal world and motivations that drive her, she’s the kind you can peel back the layers on for days and still find more to talk about!  I loved Beth so very much. But then the show took this weird turn into making Jamie the villain and, like, yeah, he’s absolutely a shit, but the refusal of the narrative to recognize the things that I have seen the other characters do to him, is driving me batshit.  John fucked that boy up!!  John swings back and forth on whether or not he even really loved Jamie, like you don’t think Jamie felt that all his life?  Beth herself even says that John made Jamie into this and made him desperately want John’s approval and John hates him for it, and it’s like yeah!!! and then the show’s tone is like, “And that’s all Jamie’s fault.” because that’s the way Beth treats him. And it’s like.  Mr. Sheridan.  I’m begging you.  When Beth says to Jamie, “You hurt people and then blame them for being hurt, that’s evil, Jamie.” she’s 100% right and I get that the characters wouldn’t get the massive hypocrisy there, but YOU THE SHOW WRITER should be getting it, but it’s nowhere in there!   Or, like, Beth has repeatedly been wrong about Jamie (he wasn’t involved in the season 3 finale’s attacks on the family, but she was sure he was, etc.) but is still treated as being insightful and dead-on about seeing into how Jamie’s just a disloyal snake who was born evil or whatever. I loved the show back in the first couple of seasons, that moment when Jamie tells her, “If hating me keeps you from hating yourself, I can live with that.” like OHHHH that was some good, complicated, tasty stuff!  But this turn into not even acknowledging how deeply John fucked Jamie up and that Beth contributed to that (there used to be brief moments of Kayce commenting that Beth had gotten too twisted up about Jamie that made me think the show was still acknowledging it, but it’s been like 2+ seasons since then, it feels like) and I’m just. I DO NOT WANT TO DEFEND JAMIE, HE IS A SHIT, but I can’t stand how the writing has taken this turn into John and Beth being not at all responsible for this shitshow and it’s ruining even all their other scenes, because the show used to be pretty good at showing that, yeah, these characters were ALL fuckups, I am totally onboard for the show about characters who are all fucking awful and they all hurt each other!  But I think the show is trying to make Jamie evil in a way that’s not being earned and it’s driving me up the WALL because, like, now I have to spend time thinking about Jamie when I could have been doing anything else.