“It makes you an assassin.”ĭespite mutual misgivings, though, the mining magnate and the Scotsman reach a deal that strikes me as most unfavorable. “Killing a king doesn’t make you a king,” Mr. Knowing that the Duttons will be building an army to protect the Yellowstone from vultures, Banner makes a one-sided deal with a man who thinks even less of him than Jake does. That distinction belongs to Big Sky Country’s gold miners. Like a good Taylor Sheridan heroine, she chooses frontier freedom.īanner has proven himself a deadly foe, but a shepherd is still low man on the Montana totem pole. Lizzie is forced to choose between Jack and the hardscrabble life of a rancher’s wife and her mother and a New York–bound train back to an enchanted land of gin rickeys. She and Jack survive their bullet wounds to find that Elizabeth’s mother - freshly made a widow by Banner’s men - now objects to the union. These women don’t know a life without keeping busy, and now they’ll teach that gospel to Elizabeth. Her husband is barely dead before she picks up a spade to dig the grave herself. Emma, on the other hand, has no hope left. She catches herself talking to God when she doesn’t know what else to do. ![]() She’s a cradle Catholic, raised on potatoes and Hail Marys. Zane doubts he’ll make it, but Cara remains true. He spends the hour bedridden in fits of restless sleep. Jacob remains on death’s door, but he has yet to pass through it. While I hoped this strategy might also include Zane and Jack Weekend at Bernie’s–ing Jake Dutton’s corpse to the Livestock Commission offices, Cara is going to attend meetings in his stead.Īlso, crucially, there is no corpse. Recall Spencer from the bush, though that may take months or even a year. Don’t tell the sheriff in pursuit of justice, and don’t send a posse in pursuit of revenge. She’s a loyal bride, our Cara, intent on following Jacob’s last orders, which are, basically, to shut up about what’s happened. Even when it feels like time should stop entirely, a woman’s work never ceases. She wrings her husband’s spilled blood into a rusty bucket. Cara runs to the fields to scream in agony at all that’s happened since the family departed Bozeman in last week’s episode, then collects herself to go clean up. Even when it feels like it should stop entirely, the minutes tick - or pulse, or drip - by. The subtext is clear: Time moves relentlessly forward. ![]() Her husband’s blood drips from her table to the floor, hitting the floor with the eerie dependability of a metronome. ![]() “War and the Turquoise Side” opens with Cara in her Sunday dress - the cornflower blue one she saves for trips to town - standing in the kitchen. For Duttons, the scope of a man is the size of his fight. Elsa reminds us time and again how the Duttons live to suffer. We know they win because the series Yellowstone exists, but even for viewers who’ve so far resisted the gravelly charms of latter-day Kevin Costner, there’s this series’ doleful narration. Photo: Vulture Photo: Emerson Miller/Paramount+įrom its dust-caked outset, 1923 has been building toward a few events that will feel oh-so-incredibly satisfying when they finally hit: a wedding on the range Teonna’s escape, however she makes it Spencer’s homecoming a war that may devastate the Duttons though we can be sure they’ll win it.
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