Editor’s Note: Below are spoilers for the Yellowstone season 5 midseason finale. yellowstone There was a lot to unpack in the middle of season five. We had a memory that kept fleshing out Josh Lucastake John Dutton and his relationship with the younger Rip and then the modern timeline took us back to Rip (Cole Hauser), and the ranchers have to head south to Texas, with only a few of our favorite crew remaining in Yellowstone. But all this faded into the background when Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Jamie (Wes Bentley) began their typical delirium with each other.

Jamie is currently at odds with his family. He’s been there for a while and he keeps finding ways to fight JohnKevin Costner) being deceived by Sarah (Don Olivieri) - at least that’s what the fans think in their relationship. She tries to win over John, and Jamie is lonely enough to think that her “affection” is genuine for him, and not just because of his connection to the Dutton family and the Yellowstone Ranch. All of this led to tension between Jamie and his family, and thus everything came to a head in the mid-season finale.

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In Episode 8 of Season 5, titled “Knife and No Coin,” we saw significant growth in our characters. John went to support Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) and protest against the pipeline being built, while Beth and Summer (Piper Perabo) had another spat between them, but they still respected each other in a way they didn’t have before. The drama eventually played out when Jamie gave a speech in which he said he was going to start impeachment proceedings against his father as governor of Montana, and that’s when we saw Beth and Jamie’s relationship really hit a new low.

Beth and Jamie are indeed birds of the same feather.

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First yellowstoneBeth seemed to love her other brothers but completely hated Jamie. As the show progressed, we learned why, but it still seemed like the sister harbored a lot of animosity towards her brother. She fought him with fists and words, and for the most part, Jamie just put up with it. We know this was due to what happened when they were younger, but there is still a lot to be learned about how they interact. As yellowstone however, one thing was becoming more and more obvious: they were the same person, whether they wanted to admit it or not.

However, let’s talk about two characters who absolutely wouldn’t like being comparable. Jamie and Beth are so incredibly similar that their fights often stem from the other having done something. They I would make. In the mid-season finale, Beth breaks into Jamie’s house and hits him with a rock because he was using a public platform to try and vilify their last name. In turn, he reveals that he knows about the “station” that several characters were taken to in the past - a metaphor, a rock in the middle of nowhere that the Duttons use to get rid of the people who wronged them during the war. the last few seasons.

Considering both this moment and what happens at the end of the episode, and you have two characters who know each other so well and hate it - and that will be their downfall. Beth goes to John for answers about the “station” and he is honest with her about the secrets of the Yellowstone Ranch. If this gets out, they could lose what has always belonged to the Dutton family. Instead of still hating what her father (and by extension, husband) does, she emphasizes that Jamie knows about it, meaning it will be their demise, and offers to get rid of him the same way.

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Meanwhile, what does Jamie do in this situation? He tells Sarah that his sister will probably try to kill him before she finds a way to secretly find out how to get the hitman to Beth, to which Sarah says she knows at least one who can make it look like an accident. death. The two are so eerily connected that they know the other’s next steps, probably before they even do it. They think more of each other than either of them cares to admit, and it’s, more broadly, a look at sibling rivalry that’s honestly fascinating.

Casey (Luke Grimes) hardly intervenes in their drama and keeps to himself. We don’t know how LeeDave Annable) would react to their fights given how little time we spent with his character, Jamie and Beth are more alike than either of them would really like to admit - not that they’ve ever done anything about it. This last episode yellowstone is the closest any character comes to clearance form, as Jamie knows exactly what Beth’s next steps will be. How will both of these storylines affect the future of the series? We’ll have to wait and see, but it would be great if Jamie and Beth finally come to their senses and admit that they too similar, and that they hate each other because of this fact. (Maybe it’s too much when they’re too busy plotting to kill each other.)