Yellowstone season 5 episode 610/2/2023 ![]() When promoting Wind River, Sheridan had some less-than-kind words for then-President Trump, saying, “Can we just impeach that motherfucker right now? Like what are we-I don’t understand … It’s just, it’s so embarrassing”-comments that Sheridan later downplayed in an interview earlier this year with The Atlantic, chalking the quote up to general anger and long press junkets for the movie. Yellowstone creator and writer Taylor Sheridan (who has a writing credit on Episode 6) appears to have a slightly more obvious political appraisal. So: interpret John’s statement however you vote. Yellowstone’s overall politics is also not all obvious it’s more than likely “that idiot” simply refers to both party’s appraisal of the opposing president-the way most Democrats felt about Trump and the way some Republicans now feel about Biden-the show’s commentary going something like: no matter the party, there is always some “idiot” in office. (Of course, this identification assumes John Dutton is partisan, which isn’t so obvious he is his own party.) When asked if he would return to Helena to meet with the President, John says, “I have nothing to say to that idiot.”įans might be keen to identify him as President Biden-if only because of the date, the series’ previous allusion to Obama, and Dutton’s assumed political party, which, although it isn’t said, appears to be Republican. While we don’t get much insight into the actual sitting President, we do get a quote from John Dutton. The show aired in 2018, a year after Trump took office, although events of the show have transpired over at least five years, making the present moment likely during President Biden’s administration. While some commentators have suggested that the series takes place in “post-Trump America, the political backdrop of white grievance and white reclamation,” it’s unclear what moment in post-Trump America the series is set. So who are they? Who is the President in Yellowstone? (Even in former Governor Perry’s office we never see photos of the sitting President, which would be common-of course, we may have also missed these, so feel free to shame us in the comments if this is the case.) By name-dropping Obama, the series suggests that we aren’t simply seeing a TV version of America, but a historically real America-a universe that does in fact contain figures of contemporary American politics. The moment is somewhat jarring although the series has followed Montana politics, no real historical figures have ever entered into the series, keeping it somewhat politically fictional. “Presidents don’t see us even when they’re standing right in front of us.” (Ultimately, the Obama administration did halt development of the pipeline toward the end of his presidency, a decision that was immediately reversed by an executive action issued by President Trump after taking office, furthering construction on the pipeline.) “Obama visited Standing Rock two years before he tried to run a pipeline through it,” Rainwater tells Angela. Drama.īefore taking the stage, Rainwater brings up President Obama’s relationship to the Dakota Access pipeline-and his later silence on the project despite earlier promises to native groups. The President then arrives on Marine One. Angela doesn’t seem to care, making her deposing plans obvious. Rainwater later appears, furious that such a speech was organized without his approval. ![]() Mo runs into Secret Service personnel securing the landing site by corralling onlookers and shooting “stray” dogs. The President comes to town via Broken Rock Reservation and an apparent call-and political move to displace Thomas Rainwater-from Angela. Last night, Yellowstone motioned toward the national stage, introducing for the first time, character relationships to the President. This last plot point has so far been confined to state politics. ![]() ![]() Yellowstone’s sixth episode of Season 5 furthered several season developments, including Jamie’s recent descent into villainy (his inevitable betrayal of his adopted family), the ranch’s precarious future, Beth and Rip’s likely doomed Hallmark relationship, and the friction between Governor John Dutton and the overall political establishment.
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