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Some of the ideas that the writers come up with are pretty lame. Rip tells a game agent that her horse has a horsefly on its rump and if it bites him, the horse will go crazy. I guess the guy who wrote that has never been around any horses. A horse can feel a fly on him and reacts to a bite on the rump by flicking his tail over the fly, not by going into a bucking fit.

Another episode had a meth lab,on the Rez, blowing up, but there's a Confederate Naval Jack flying over the trailer. I guess they needed to make the point that meth is a white trash drug, but Tribal police wouldn't have tolerated white meth cooks on the Rez. Maybe cooking meth would make any tribe members turn Confederate.

Whatever the writer meant by that nonsense, it didn't work.

There are so many story lines this show could be pursuing beyond dedicating much of it to a secondary character's brain trauma that occurred from random accidental violence. It pointless soap opera, full of surprise health changes, sorrowful eye contact, and weepy family scenes around her hospital bed. It's boring,

Beth doesn't make sense as a character. Would somebody her age still be driven solely by accidentally causing her mother's death? A child would bear that burden fully but an adult decades later would put it in some perspective, at least enough to have other facets to her personality. She's just anger and depression and people are more nuanced than that. Also, why would anyone want to be around her? Why would Rip care at all about a person who shows him nothing but abuse and sadism. His psychology interests me more and what makes him tick is never explored.

I feel like the Asian cliff scene was thrown in because the director realized this episode is incomprehensibly dull. It made no sense. There is no organic reason some Asians are all of a sudden hanging onto the edge of a cliff. Rip's conversation with them makes no sense. Why the meet and greet? Make sure they know pertinent instructions and save them. The Asian man's reaction to grab the rope can be explained away by panic but why throw two people falling to their deaths into a show for frivolous reasons.

Do we need to hear real estate contract negotiations? I liked the Beth riding horse scene. It was a good metaphor for why life is hard for her. But she's character cutout from an insecure man's imagination. She's pure angst and female chaos and I cannot engage with a character who doesn't have tangibility.

I am laid up with surgery, binge streaming many shows that were recommended to me. I dont really stream shows. Movies yes. What drew me in to Yellowstone was Costner.

I have not completed the first season but thus far it seems rather accident prone. Oops I shot someone at the res/ranch border, oops tnt explosion unearths Dino bones, oops grandson almost drowns in river, oops slip and fall in the middle of school fight - crack my head. Need I go on? Every time these ranchers go out, on their own ranch, you guessed it - accident. Don't they know their ranch, that their pappy and his pappy before him built on their own?

The clincher for me getting up (ooh my ribs) and writing a review was... the tropes of this episode. Mainly with the Grizzly Bear and the Asians. Come on, for the love of Mike! For all the accidents...one shot takes out a Grizzly, head on? Really. If its not a 30-30, then it's a 45 colt lever rifle. Two shots more like it with 45. 45-70 would be appropriate. 300 Win Mag would be prudent. The Griz-posse before hand, leave their guns at home, knowing that they are being sent out to track Griz. Is this... another accident? Yes, inside another accident. Back to the end bear scene. Poof! Asian hikers appear. Another accident; ran back to get the rope off the horse, but left the horse! A pull rope is easy enough with 1 horsepower, lasso them folks, use that horse! We can shoot a Griz, staring him down without a flinch, but when it comes to block & tackle work, we're all ape-man thumbs.

My own fault, I kept watching. I seem to be waiting for a all encompassing story arc, something meaningful, that is principled, smart and a thought out win.

If a Lassie Dog comes into the story I am done! LOL!!

A very funny spoof to all this would be a Field of Dreams type but with soap opera characters that drift down from the mountains and pass through the ranch and interact with a Costner type. Lassie comes by. The little boy from Shane, that's how he comes in just echoing "Shane". Eastwood from High Plains or Pale Rider. Shirley Temple as Heidi comes out asking about "Grandfather-grandfather!" The little boy from Close Encounters, he walks out of the mountains gets hugged by mom. Arnold crawls out of the mountains yelling to get back to the chawppah! Field of Dreams in Yellowstone, movie personalities show up. SNL skit.

It's too bad this show keeps having characters doing stupid things. Experienced cowboy rides out to find two tourists clinging to the cliff. He goes to his horse to get some rope to pull them up. But he doesn't bring the horse to do the pulling!?!? And the tourists act like inexplicable idiots too. C'mon, stop writing idiocy.

The show is starting to lose me a bit.

Kevin Costner writhing in pain for half the episode is not something for people to get excited about.

Go back to John and the tribe fighting. That's where the money is for Yellowstone.

Agee with all other reviews on the mix of all the good and all the ... ugh.

So rip randomly sees two asians hanging off a cliff.

A) are they part of the tourist bus, if so, don't you think the tour agent would have noticed two people missing and sent out a search party

B) Rip throws a rope at her but like... he's holding it with one hand, how light does he think she is ? He doesn't hold onto the tree until all hell starts breaking loose, until then it's one hand on the rope while he's pointing to them on what to do with the other.

C) so much other odd things but the worst: SHE WAIVED AT HIM!!!!! She's holding off a cliff with two hands but she casually takes one hand away to waive at him??????? I mean, I get that she could afford to free a hand, as apparently she was able to catch the rope but still that seemed so casual.

Ugh. Just ugh.