r/DuttonRanchTVSeries

Wtf happened to Dwight?🥺😭
Do we think Oreana’s “babysitter/bodyguard” called it in?
What’s gonna happen to Xena?!

Why is Carter still going to school? What happened? I haven’t watched Yellowstone, so I don’t have a clue

You saw Rip accept Beulah's dinner invitation. And complemented her rather directly when saying she reminded him of Beth. Beulah is interested in Rip since she asked how long they've been married. Rip was dining with Beulah while Beth is at home with dinner ready for Rip. What a shame sudden turns can create in love, lust, and power.

I’m liking this show. Compared to the shows like Yellowstone that were made for the app, this one seems very tame, almost like it was filmed for CBS on network TV.
Yellowstone definitely had saltier language and more edge.
Opinion of one, of course.
Thoughts?

It needs better and more music, and it needs humor. There is no balance at the moment.

It's still miles better than Marshals.

It's seems like alot of people think that Carter's on the medevac helicopter shown in the previews and one person thinks he's been kidnapped. So I was thinking that RW has a problem with Beth and Rip's son dating his daughter.

Rip has taken his job away and is doing a severely better job them him, Rip and Beth are both getting high praise from his mom and Rip has probably figured out what RW is up too. So not only could he get Carter away from Oreana he could also hurt Rip and Beth.

You got Food for 5 persons, Feed for at least 5 horses, vet Care for said horses, 2 Cowboys on payroll, at least 3 RAM Trucks that need gas or Diesel, property taxes, maintanance, water, electricity Bills, Starlink, the enourmous vet Bill for the rescued horse…

Seems Beth would have him go for the GED, maybe take adult night classes where needed, etc. But instead kind of humiliates him by making him physically go to high school where he feels out of place cuz he is a bit older. Also did he fall behind in school or something? Why is he 19 and still in school? Did he fall behind in Montana and why would Beth let that happen?

Spoilers

I am an animal rescuer. I have stopped watching after episode two because of spoilers about the cattle scene.

do we see the cattle getting killed? Or is RIP standing on a hill shooting down?

Thanks

Been sitting with Ep 5 for a couple days and I think people are critiquing the wrong thing. The complaint I keep seeing is “Beth didn’t get her revenge.” That’s not the problem. The problem is she didn’t get angry.

Think about what Ep 4 actually did. It didn’t just kill the herd — it killed it with a disease. Something Beth couldn’t scream at, couldn’t outsmart, couldn’t put in the ground. For the first time the Duttons lost to something that didn’t care who they were. That’s a brutal, brilliant hour of TV.

Which is exactly why Ep 5 had no margin for error. You don’t follow a gut-punch with a handshake. But that’s what we got — Beth in a leather chair, negotiating, sipping Scotch. Composed. Strategic. And here’s my issue: that’s not Beth Dutton. Beth doesn’t process pain quietly, she detonates. When Beth hurts, the whole room knows. A quiet Beth right after losing everything isn’t healing or strategy — it reads like the writers forgot the volcano only matters when it erupts.

Compare it to Rip. Rip going quiet works, because that’s who Rip is — he gets still, methodical, makes a list, the calm is the threat. They’re opposite responses to the same wound. Ep 5 wrote both of them as Rip. That’s the tell.

Now the part I actually want to discuss — Joaquin.

Watch the parallel. Early Yellowstone: Jamie is the golden boy, the fixer, the one who does all the dirty work for the family and expects the crown — then John passes him over, backs someone else, makes it clear you’re not the one I trust. Every betrayal Jamie commits traces back to that wound.

Now look at 10 Petal. Joaquin is Beulah’s fixer. The loyal strategist who’s held that place together. And in Ep 5 she walks an outsider — Rip — through the door and hands him the keys, right in front of him. Same wound. Different ranch. We’ve already watched how this story ends once. When a fixer realizes he’s being used, he doesn’t walk away quietly — he becomes the internal leak that brings the whole thing down.

So my read: Beulah didn’t just make a staffing move. She lit a fuse. Joaquin is this show’s Jamie-in-waiting.

Couple things I’m genuinely unsure on and want pushback:

•	Is the Dwight death about Dwight, or is it Carter’s education — the moment he learns what staying silent costs?  
•	Anyone buying the theory Dwight was connected to Beulah’s operation? Because if he was, his total non-reaction to Oriana’s bodyguard doesn’t track for me.

Tell me where I’m wrong.

The way he calmly walks into a new bunkhouse as a complete stranger, gets some coffee, doesn't bother announcing he's in charge because it's so damn obvious, and begins ordering everyone around is both impressive and hilarious. Everyone just naturally obeys, it's like wolves automatically falling in line to the sound of the alpha wolf howling because it wouldn't make any sense to do anything else.

The thing is, we know his entire backstory, and there's no real explanation for how secure, decisive and confident he is. By all accounts (an orphan with no official identity, product of an abusive home, loyally served one man his entire life without the interest of gaining anything materially for himself), it would totally make sense if he had a weak sense of self/self-worth.

But he just...doesn't. He knows who tf he is. Yet still knows how to be humble and not an ass. He is competent, self-assured and fearless, and his aura projects those things so loudly everyone in a 10 mile radius feels it immediately. And even though he's a dangerous man, he has absolute control over himself.

He's had a hard and modest life, yet he carries himself with more dignity and certainty then men many times more "accomplished" than him do. That's how you know it's real and not just ego bluffing. I just love Rip so much and shout out to Cole Hauser!!

Ive been sitting with this question since the release of ep 4 - why didn't Beth and Rip get some information out of the cattle dealer guy who forged the bull's papers, before burning his place down?

I know B&R are both fighters who are not afraid to take revenge this way, but I also think Beth's character is supposed to be much smarter than to miss this opportunity to get some really important info about the people in the cattle business there..

Am i missing something? It's bugging me sm lol

I don't know what time of year it's supposed be at the Dutton Ranch, where Rip is wearing that heavy jacket and a felt hat while Carter is in a basic button up shirt and ball cap, Beth just wearing a normal suit without any jacket, etc, where old leopard guy can sit in a pool of water at night drinking beer while Carter and his gf stand there, her in no sleeves and nary a hint of breath fog in the air.

I also don't know what time it is in that world, where Rip can "be there by 4:30am" and yet the sun is up when he gets there. Never seen the sun rise in Texas at that time, you'd need a flashlight to do anything at that hour. Then he gets from the DR to the 10P and it's now almost full daylight. So he loaded up the trailer, the horse and got to the 10P before the actual sunrise when the sun was actually rising.

Nit picking? Maybe but it stood out to me. I know Rip wears the jacket to appear larger than he is, but when his ranch hands are in short sleeve t-shirts or bare chested and he's in a Montana coat, it doesn't look right. Felt in a field of straw hats (meaning it's warm out) doesn't look right.

edit: changed "Cooper" to "Carter". The shows are just too similar, I cannot keep up. Cooper and Ariana, Carter and Oreana.. Not a lot of creativity there.