In the episodes of "Yellowstone’s" fifth season that have aired on the 2024 TV schedule, it’s abundantly clear that Beth and Rip are worried about the ranch and stumped over how to save it. They know John Dutton’s vision isn’t attainable, and it’s something they made evident in the first half of Season 5. So, as we continue to watch these final episodes, I can’t help but think about Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser’s comments regarding why their characters are worried about Kevin Costner’s patriarch losing his land.
Before I saw Season 5B’s premiere, I had the chance to interview the "Yellowstone" cast, and specifically Hauser and Reilly, about what’s to come. Thinking about Rip and Beth’s relationship and shared view on the ranch’s future, I asked them why both had voiced their concerns in the first half of the season – knowing it’d be applicable in the episodes airing now.
Before I saw Season 5B’s premiere, I had the chance to interview the "Yellowstone" cast, and specifically Hauser and Reilly, about what’s to come. Thinking about Rip and Beth’s relationship and shared view on the ranch’s future, I asked them why both had voiced their concerns in the first half of the season – knowing it’d be applicable in the episodes airing now.
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00:00I re-watched 5A in the few days leading up to this.
00:03Something that struck me was at the end of the season,
00:06Beth makes a comment where she's like,
00:08the business model is what's gonna kill us.
00:10Like, she tells John that.
00:11And early in the season, Rip also says,
00:13he says that John's gonna lose the ranch.
00:17I was wondering what you guys could tell me
00:19about why they think that
00:22and how it's gonna impact their actions
00:24going into what we're about to see.
00:26Because obviously there's the outside struggles,
00:29but then there's also the big business.
00:32Yeah, how to make money.
00:35The ranch cannot survive the way it survived 150 years ago.
00:39And unfortunately, the model that John Dutton wants
00:42is of this romantic time,
00:43and he wants to preserve a time that doesn't exist anymore.
00:46Beth has a line to him,
00:48your way of life,
00:49they don't care about your way of life anymore, Daddy.
00:51Like, it's heartbreaking to have to say to him,
00:55but she has to find a way to monetize it,
00:57to make it work in modern times.
01:01And she's trying to do it and he won't have it.
01:04So it's very, you can feel the desperation
01:07of needing this ranch to survive.
01:09It is a dying time for them all,
01:12and something's gotta give.
01:15Yeah, and I think too,
01:17when everybody's there and there's a big party,
01:19and I'm actually saying that line,
01:22I think for Rip, it's just that it's changing.
01:26The idea that these people will be invited into this world,
01:29which is so special and kind of sacred at that time,
01:33is that he's starting to lose grasp of what it was.
01:36Yeah.
01:37That it becomes a spectacle.
01:38Right.
01:39It's losing its authentic soul.
01:41And that's why I'm up on the hill and she comes up,
01:43and there's that moment between us,
01:45and I say that line because of that.
01:47And it's the beginning in his mind
01:50to the end of Yellowstone.