The continuation of John Dutton ( Kevin Costner)’s story arc and growth, presented in Season One, has been wiped out. I have never seen a writer undermine his own narrative. I have never seen this before on a television show in my life (besides the last two seasons of Game of Thrones). Instead of “sabotaging”, I should say “sabotaged” because Blood the Boy completes Sheridan’s deleterious work. What is writer/creator Taylor Sheridan thinking? He’s sabotaging his sublime narrative, dynamiting it, turning almost every aspect of it into something ordinary. The Willful Longevity Bullet Through the Foot If this is how Conrad and Sheridan choose to end the Jamie Dutton / John Dutton / Sarah Nguyen news story story-line, I will lose what remaining respect I have for the writers of this TV series. They utilize an idiotic sequence of events, or at least the most readily available, and hope no one is paying attention (a strange notion since a television show requires one to watch and digest what they are seeing on-screen). This is how Yellowstone‘s writers have chosen to get rid of pesky story-lines they no longer want from Season One. None of that will happen, not after the cancer / ulcer fiasco at the beginning of this season of Yellowstone. How will that fresh head bump/bruise have gotten there if she was wearing a helmet when she died?Ī real-world medical examiner would discover all this during Nguyen’s autopsy, they would then notify police detectives, and the detectives would start a homicide investigation. She will have a head contusion under her helmet. Jamie Dutton ( Wes Bentley) killing Nguyen is predictable but how it is handled afterward is more than anything else humorous (odd since this is a serious television drama comprised of hard men and women).ġ.) How does it look like a boating accident when Sarah Nguyen has strangulation marks around her neck?Ģ.) How does drowning in the water cause finger bruising around a person’s throat?ģ.) Jamie Dutton hit Nguyen’s head against her car before he strangled her to death. The Unbelievable Boating Accident Solution If in the following episodes of Yellowstone, writers Brett Conrad and Taylor Sheridan indicate that Sarah Nguyen’s news story about John Dutton died with her, not only will it be a convenient and terribly-written plot point cope-out (like the magical colon cancer that turned into an ulcer between seasons), it will be a complete real-world fantasy, one that could never take one furtive, anguishing breath in the modern newspaper industry. At this point, a fully written, printable draft of the story has been completed ( à la Spotlight and Almost Famous). The news story is at the quote stage (Nguyen wants a quote from John Dutton about the contents of the news story). In short, killing Sarah Nguyen does not stop the news story she is working on about John Dutton from being published. Sarah Nguyen ( Michaela Conlin) is such a journalist.Ī journalist like Nguyen will have: a.) told the editor she is writing for all about the John Dutton news story (Nguyen said last season “My editor wants the story” so her editor knows about the story), b.) played the recording of the Jamie Dutton interview for the editor (and uploaded it to the newspaper’s server), c.) sent a draft of the completed story to her editor, d.) notified the lawyers at her paper of Jamie’s reticence and possible lawsuit from John Dutton (she indicated the former in Touching Your Enemy), and being notified, the lawyers would have requested Nguyen’s interview notes, a transcript of the recorded interview, and listened to the recording of the interview. In the real world with layers of redundancies like The Cloud and backups, simply killing the journalist behind an unpublished news article will not stop that news story from being published. Though the mystique and patina of the cowboy lifestyle is deepened in Blood the Boy with rodeo horse racing, the phenomenon of “buckle bunnies”, and bronc riding, Season Two of Yellowstone has successfully downgraded this TV series from having an exceptional narrative and well-realized characters into an ordinary television drama set at a large ranch in Montana.
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