![]() Kayca is both an optimist (he believes the Native Americans on the reservation will eventually accept him) and a realist (“There is no heaven.”)ĭaybreak shows the viewer that Yellowstone contains the same duality. Kayca is slapped in the face with this truth but he is still defiant, as is his contrary nature born of his father’s domineerance. Human nature lies underneath most of the decisions made on Yellowstone but it walks hand-and-hand with the deleterious ones. The wisdom that he speaks with to Kayce is precise and prophetic. Of all of John Dutton’s children, Beth Dutton is the one that inherited his intelligence and fortitude when it comes to dealing with other people, personality traits that some of his other children lack.įelix Long ( Rudy Ramos)’s advice to Kayce Dutton ( Luke Grimes) in Daybreak before the cattle reclamation shows why the old chief was and is a leader. Watching her batter a helpless business man with the ugly truth about his financial situation shows her intelligence, gasp of business mechanics, and that compassion does not deter her when she has a floundering target in her sights.īeth Dutton’s bar scene is one of Yellowstone‘s few ‘humorous’ moments as Beth sees right through a would-be lover, easily sizing him up, and snapping the neck of his burgeoning fantasy with both hands. Beth is a corporate killer, a shark, capable of destroying the will-power of an opponent at the snap of a manicured finger. ![]() ![]() Beth is no wallflower, eye-candy, or token character. Through intelligence gathering, Chief Rainwater knows that he only has to poke-the-bear (John Dutton) to give him cause to act in exactly the way he has already planned to act.īeth Dutton ( Kelly Reilly)’s first scene in Daybreak is Beth Dutton’s standout out moment in the episode. The chief sees that symbol as a fulcrum, a means to aggrandize himself. Whether that is a rational assessment or not, that is what the chief sees. The chief does not dislike John Dutton, he dislikes the symbol that John Dutton represents – the rich and the white, the ancient enemy and destroyer of his people. Rainwater, the newly elected chief, seeks to create an enemy in John Dutton where one does not exist. The viewer gets the opportunity to understand Chief Rainwater’s perspective through his scenes in Daybreak but that perspective is skewed from scarring caused by his people’s past. As Daybreak progresses, the viewer sees that this mindset applies to everything that John Dutton does.Ĭhief Thomas Rainwater ( Gil Birmingham) is introduced in Daybreak as a person that strides between ancestry, the present, and his vision for the future. When Dutton sees something that needs to be done, he does it in the moment, unflinchingly. The accident scene at the beginning of Daybreak shows the viewer the type of man that John Dutton is in very few words. It does an excellent job of showing the viewer what makes certain characters tick by placing them in specific situations so the viewer can see how these characters handle themselves and how they react. Everyone seems to want to keep him happy and protect his family, especially from themselves and their actions.ĭaybreak is a set-up episode. John has weaved himself into the power structure of his town. blowing up part of a hillside river to stop land development). So, was this your first time watching? If so, what did you think? And if you rewatched, did you find the premiere to be as good as you remembered? Hit the comments.John Dutton ( Kevin Costner) and his family represent the status quo in Montana (John is anti-“transplants”, anti-gentrification) and he wants to keep everything as it is (e.g. ‘I NOTICE YOU NEVER ASK FOR APPLIANCES WITH YOUR PANTS ON’ | In other developments of note for a first-time viewer, we learned that Beth likes Kayce as much as she loathes Jamie, she has a past (as well as a sexy present) with beefy ranch hand Rip Wheeler, and ex-cons that are put to work on the ranch wear the Yellowstone brand across their chest. In the ensuing melee, Monica’s brother Robert fatally shot Lee, then, trying (in vain) to protect his own brother, Kayce fatally shot Robert! Ticked, John sent Lee and his hands to retrieve the livestock under cover of darkness, only to find the Broken Rock Police ready for a fight. After some of his cattle wandered onto the reservation, he was informed that new chief Thomas Rainwater refused to allow its return. That wasn’t the only “issue” that the Duttons’ widowed patriarch had to resolve, either.
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