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Yellowstone fans are bracing themselves for spectacular cliffhangers in the mid-season finale, on Paramount Network Jan. 1. (There’s no episode on Christmas Day.)
We have many questions!
Perhaps the biggest: Will Kevin Costner’s John Dutton, the seemingly invincible quiet center of stormy events, survive in the governorship now that his resentful adoptive son Jamie (Wes Bentley) is seemingly in cahoots (and between the sheets) with John’s nemesis, the corporate shark Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri)? Even as they get friskier in the bedroom — and the shower — the pair are hatching an impeachment campaign. John will need the rhino skin he’s always shown, plus a good deal of guile — perhaps supplied by loyal daughter Beth?
Is John Dutton about to plunge into a steamy love triangle?
Before he became America’s most reluctant governor, John was bumping boots with the previous governor, Lynelle (Wendy Moniz), who’s now Montana’s senator and still tight with him. With whom else does he have more in common? She doesn’t seem too sweet on activist Summer (Piper Perabo), a gal so tough she wasn’t fazed by Beth flashing a knife. When John abruptly, recklessly commuted her prison sentence for leading a violent protest — and placed her under house arrest in his home, he gave his enemies a risky bit of leverage.
(Left to right) Cole Hauser as Rip Wheeler and Kelly Reilly as Beth Dutton
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Will murdered wolves mess up the crazy love of Beth and Rip?
Beth’s husband Rip (Cole Hauser) is many fans’ favorite character. We want to see them keep making sweet love on the pine needles. But when his guys kill some Yellowstone National Park wolves on the Dutton Ranch, Rip unwisely has them put the wolves’ GPS collars on logs and toss them in the Yellowstone River. The cover-up threatens the governor — these wolves have Facebook pages and more fans than Yellowstone! Must Rip be thrown to the wolf-protectors as the sacrificial target of prosecution? Jamie and Sarah wouldn’t spare him — he’s more of a son to John than the adopted Jamie has managed to be.
Wes Bentley as Jamie Dutton
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Is Sarah playing Jamie, or the other way around?
Could Jamie be working a long con on Sarah? He does like to win, and putting the kibosh on Sarah’s plan to seize control of the valley from John for Market Equities might win his alienated dad’s love at last. Beth loathes and controls Jamie. But if they could unite over anything, it would be in saving the patriarch, and the Duttons.
