No matter what happens in the Yellowstone season 5 finale, Beth and Rip will be back on our screens soon.
While they’ve been rumored for a while to star in Yellowstone season 6, Deadline reports that they’ll be starring in a new Yellowstone spinoff.
Six months ago, I would have been ecstatic about this news, but now I’m not so sure, given how underwhelming Yellowstone Season 5 Part Two was.
The writing on Beth and Rip is better than the rest of Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2
While Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2 was already terrible, Rip and Beth’s writing was better than most, to say the least.
In retrospect, is it possible that the whole twisty final part of season five was a backdoor pilot for Rip and Beth’s new Yellowstone spinoff?
Many of the flashback scenes involve Beth’s troubled life while Rip oversees the movement of cattle infected with a deadly disease at Yellowstone Ranch in Texas.
Before John’s death, Beth surprisingly announced that she cared less for her father’s ranch and would rather be in Texas with Rip, who rushed back to support her when she returned home to find her father murdered.
These scenes, along with Beth’s support for RIp after Colby’s death, are some of the strongest in the new season.
While they don’t make up for the feud between Beth and Jamie, they do prove that sometimes a neo-western can still make everyone fall in love with it.
This bodes well for the new Yellowstone spinoff starring the couple, although it’s unclear what they’ll be doing.
Beth and Rip could continue their storyline with Carter in new Yellowstone spinoff
In the new spinoff, Beth and RIp have plenty of room to focus on their family storylines.
Fans of Yellowstone won’t be satisfied with a show that focuses solely on the couple’s home life (which doesn’t fit the series’ neo-Western brand, anyway).
However, Beth’s backstory of being unable to have children due to a botched abortion as a teenager and her conflicting feelings for Carter could still lead to a fleshed-out subplot.
Since Carter was very young, Beth has kept a distance from him and calls her “mom,” but she doesn’t want him to.
However, after Colby’s death, she showed a softer, more maternal side, assuring Carter that the accident was not his fault and telling him that she and Rip were his family.
Carter has grown a lot since he first showed up at the hospital as a soon-to-be-orphaned child, but there’s still a lot to learn about his past, the impact it has had on him, and his dreams for the future.
He’s a background character in the second installment of Yellowstone’s fifth season, but he could play a bigger role if there’s a new Yellowstone spinoff.
This subplot might also make it clear why Colby had to die in Yellowstone Season 5 Episode 12.
I really hope so, because right now it seems like an unwarranted death and a waste of time in a short season that was already incapable of effectively ending things.
Beth and Rip’s story on new Yellowstone spinoff hinges on what happens in Yellowstone season 5 finale
The extensive scenes at the Texas 6666 Ranch have me wondering if Rip and Beth will move to Texas in the new Yellowstone spinoff.
Now that doesn’t make much sense. Rip has been trying to convince Beth to stop selling all their livestock, while Beth and Case are working to preserve the Yellowstone Ranch.
However, that could change if things play out the way I suspect they will.
Case’s plan to save the ranch involves giving it away and buying it back cheap, and if his plan works, there’s no reason why he can’t run the ranch while Beth and Rip leave town.
This would make Beth happiest, since she’d already said she didn’t like working on the ranch. It would also give her, Rip, and possibly Carter a fresh start.
Beth has been supporting Teeter since Colby passed away, so maybe she can join them and make them both successful on 6666.
Of course, if the promised war with Jamie actually comes to fruition in the Yellowstone season 5 finale, Beth and Amp may have no choice.
It is said that the brother and sister are going to fight to the death. There’s no evidence of this so far, but I’d guess it could happen.
If Beth hadn’t killed Jamie, he might have revealed the secret, forcing her and Rip to go on the run, although that outcome is unlikely.
That means Jamie is still alive, and I don’t want Beth to give him another chance to ruin the Dutton family’s lives.
Plus, Beth doesn’t seem like the type to run away, even if that fits neatly into the traditional trope of the Western hero who lives by his own moral code and exists outside the law.
Rip and Beth’s relationship may be tested in an original way in new Yellowstone spinoff
Rip and Beth are a solid couple, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t things that could cause them to temporarily separate.
During the second part of Yellowstone Season 5, Beth was not happy with the time Rip was spending at the Texas ranch. She kept begging him to take time out and focus on her.
If they move to Texas together (or decide to continue running Yellowstone), this problem won’t go away.
Additionally, Rip still doesn’t know the truth about Beth’s inability to have children, and if the truth comes out one day, it could cause a rift between them.
The new Yellowstone spinoff doesn’t need to go down the breakup/reunion merry-go-round route.
Keith and Monica’s relationship in Yellowstone was bad enough!
Still, any conflict that occurs on the ranch should spill over into their marriage. There’s a lot of drama to watch out there!
If they moved to Texas, one thing I would miss is the frenemy relationship between the Duttons and the local natives. Lines like “We’ve been fighting for 160 years” from Rainwater send shivers down my spine every time.
Yellowstone gave the native people respect and rich storylines that the Western genre initially rejected, and I hope that continues in the new Yellowstone spin-off.
If Beth and Rip moved to Texas, they would need new supporting characters, and Texas is home to several native tribes, so this aspect could continue in different forms.
Alternatively, the new Yellowstone spinoff could split its time between Ranch 6666 and whatever Case is dealing with at Dutton Ranch, assuming Beth leaves and he stays – if Luke Grimes stays on the team .
Over to you, Yellowstone fanatics!
What do you think of the new Yellowstone spinoff? Are you ready to dive back into this new series?
What should Beth and Rip do during this time? Where should they live?
Hit the comments with your thoughts.
The “Yellowstone” season 5 finale will air on December 15, 2024 at 8/7c on Paramount Network.
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