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Yellowstone<\/em> <\/figcaption>photo: Paramount Network<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nAn action-packed, but kinda aimless, installment of Yellowstone<\/em><\/span> this week finds Beth and Summer duking it out in \u201cWatch ‘Em Ride Away,\u201d the fighting equivalent of that Return Of The King<\/em><\/span> ending Let’s get into it.<\/p>\nHere’s what went down<\/strong><\/h2>\nbitter rival <\/em>barely covers what Summer is to Beth. From minute one, John’s daughter (and her breathtaking anger issues) sized up Summer as something between nuisance and threat, especially when her daddy decided to take someone who Beth calls a \u201chippie\u201d into his bed. The venom between them boiled over in \u201cWatch ‘Em Ride Away,\u201d which plays the long game while building up to an even longer fisticuffs between the two women. <\/p>\nWhat starts as a verbal spat at the supper table (when will John learn that nothing<\/em> good ever comes from a family dinner) spills out onto the ranch’s front yard in a brawl full of kicking, punching, and more kicking. And it keeps going, even after Rip attempts to play peacemaker. It eventually ends (or, rather, settles on detente) and circles back to the dinner table, where Summer and Beth’s uneasy truce picks up where it left off: Beth educating a vegan Summer on the benefits of eating meat. (Classic Yellowstone<\/em>.)<\/p>\nbest line<\/strong><\/h2>\n\u201cHoney, yesterday is what eats everybody.\u201d\u2014Rip<\/p>\n
Rip and his usual brand of cowboy poetics help set the stage for Beth vs. summer. He and his wife muse about the past as their marriage’s future seems foggy, just as John’s political career (or, at least, his patience for it) is staring down its expiration date. The Duttons’ way of life is so beholden to what came before (especially when it comes to their version of family values) that even the mere thought of change (especially coming from someone as progressive as Summer) feels like a threat to tear it all down. Rip seems to know that no matter how hard the family he loves tries, change can’t be stopped. But Beth, with her outbursts and alcoholism, won’t stop trying.<\/p>\n
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