“Yellowstone” captured the hearts of Americans by offering a glimpse into a romanticized version of life on the range as it followed the Dutton family through their battles against government overreach and imminent domain. Now, with the shows closing episodes scheduled for November, star actress Kelly Reilly has offered a sad possibility for the how the show ends for her character Beth Dutton.
Beth Dutton’s character is one mired by a traumatizing past, from a forced sterilization thanks to her half brother Jamie to multiple failed assassination attempts being made against her. Now, Reilly fears that Beth’s relationship with Rip Wheeler, the head ranch hand to her father John Dutton, will be ruined by the show’s close.
“Beth is haunted by her past,” Reilly said. “She has a lot of regrets and she has a lot of secrets that he doesn’t know. So there is something that is under the surface that will one day, I’m sure, come, and she’s probably certain that she will lose him.”
For the thousands of fans rooting for Beth and Rip’s love story to come to a happy ending, this is horrific news. The couple’s marriage is on the best and most beloved feel good moments on the show, and it is unlikely that moment will be topped by any kind of ending for the pair that has been in love in nearly every moment of the show’s story, including flashbacks.
Those flashbacks included memories of young Beth and Rip, scenes that often depicted Beth being unkind and downright cruel at times to the young ranch hand. Reilly thinks that is likely to be the cause of a possible on screen split. “In this season, you see that she is waking up in the night, constantly having bad dreams, constantly thinking about how she treated him, how she was with him, some of the decisions she made.”
Reilly predicted that her inability to bear children will cause a split between the two when the secret becomes open knowledge in the relationship. She said, “He doesn’t know any of that, and she’s protecting him. So there’s a weighted burden in her heart that she cannot share with him. He’s trying to reassure her and love her, but he doesn’t know the truth.”
This kind of a rift could cause massive drama for fans of the Yellowstone Ranch who want to see a happy ending for the eccentric, family-first Beth Dutton find a happy resolution to her story.
The end of the final season this year will spell the end for the “Yellowstone” main series, as the show runners move to other spinoffs like the popular “1883” and “1923” and beyond. The Dutton family name will continue to be at the forefront of Paramount’s stellar lineup of shows featuring story lines from rural America.
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