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OT: Yellowstone: The Duttons are villains. Change my mind

gammanu95

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I never heard of the Yellowstone TV series before a year ago. Even then I thought it was on Paramount+ streaming only. Neertheless, I watched all the rebroadcasts and got hooked. Now I hate it. Kayce and the brother that were killed are the only characters who have not been shown to be true villains.

They think nothing of killing employees they fire. They never warn them that if they hire on, they will be expected to perform criminal acts up to and including murder. They never warn them that the only way out of their employment is a bullet in the back of their head and their body left out for coyotes and vultures. Rip even seems to enjoy being the head executioner.

Beth is the most vile and reprehensible female character ever given a leading role. Sure, Kelly Reilly is hot AF. It's practically criminal that she hasn't done any full-frontal nude scenes with those beautiful, natural funbags. Her character may be the worse. (fictional). person. ever. She asked her brother for an abortion, how was he supposed to know that the free clinic was also giving out free sterilizations? It was decades ago, get over it. She doesn't have to forgive him, but she has no right to endlessly harass and torment him. He should have killed her or let her kill herself when he had the chance, and he has had several. Now, in season five, she has promised to torture, humiliate, and dehumanize im even further. Is it any surprise that it seems like he may be driven to work for Market Equities against the Dutton clan? He as no other way to liberate himself from his vile foster family.

Then we have John. The patriarch. Mister "I won't let my children run as Republicans." He wants all of his adult children to live at home and serve the ranch as a lawyer, as a inside trader and fraudster, as a partial and politically motivated livestock commissioner, and seat himself as governor to advance his business interests. Not to serve the people of Montana. Not to serve and uphold the constitution of the state, preserve its precious natural resources, or to protect individual liberties from government overreach and iummoral coporations. No, to protect his one ranch and his family alone. John Dutton manipulated politicians and elected officials into putting two of his children into the most powerful offices of the state, and has his daughter running the governor's office as Chief of Staff. All because he wants to keep his ranch, and keep it at the expense of any and all else. He does not care how any other Montanan business or family is ruined by his greed.

I'm a conservationist. I hate the coastal elites as much as anyone. I hate the subjugation and destruction of our wildlife and natural spaces for profit and ego as much as any Greenpeace activist. Place the Yellowstone in a conservation trust is the only decent thing that the Dutton Clan has ever done - if they do that.

Please, change my mind.