Three Fifty-Three

The cliffhangers in part 2 of season 5 have been some of the best of the entire series. A lot was lost when Kevin Costner left, but this did not affect the quality of the writing, the characters, or the acting. The writing this season is top notch and is even better than some past seasons. It's as good as the writing was in the very first seasons. Phenomenal!!! All of the writing surrounding the loss of John Dutton has been awesome and I really like how the writers have handled all of that. It could've made the show worse, but instead it's created a dynamite plot. Thoroughly looking forward to the remaining 3 episodes!!!

This last part of season five is an absolute unbelievable monstrosity to this legendary franchise. I am extremely flexible on such franchises doing something incredibly difficult. Ending television series that are so big is not easy. However what they have done here is basically "phone it in". For no reason at all they created several timelines that make zero sense. You have no idea where the characters even are. You don't know where or when they are. There is obviously much more like the acting is now forced. The most amazing thing the super powers that Casey and Beth develop in this episode 11. That is just ridiculous and just ruins this entire thing. They should be ashamed.

This episode was so amazing from beginning to end with Casey being a major focal point of the episode in the beginning, Beth at her best and Jamie "wow" omg !!!

At first, I did not like the flashback and flash forward aspect, but it was perfectly an amazingly done in this episode. The best episode of all season the season at first had me very skeptical and upset but now I am like I'm pins and meals to see what happens next And if you watch this episode, you know exactly what you're waiting for at the end. Great job guys.

I'm very happy that This episode was done the way it was done and can't wait till next week.

Do they really expect me to believe where they say the story is going? Beth sitting on a porch saying her father left her no choice but to sell to the highest bidder? It's like they forgot the whole scene when Kevin Costner was still alive where he planned to give the ranch to the Native Americans. "This is how I keep it whole" is what he said.

Now I have an episode with Beth on a porch with the Chief, and neither one of them knows how to make it work? Really? Jon Dutton made it so that it was easy, now, what will we do?

We all know the Native Americans are going to get the ranch. Why have the dog and pony show just to drag this out for five more episodes. They could have wrapped this whole season up in three episodes. Horrible writing.

The way this season is going if it some how isn't the shows last it will probably be so for me.

What is happening with these unexplained flash backs and back to current time? The blend in executing is rather poorly done (albeit better this episode then the complete unexplained randomness from last episode). This is something completely new to the show which is fine but provide the watchers a bit more awareness here.

As far as the storyline, they're really grasping for anything to suck up the hour time frame since Costner left. I'm not sure how much longer I can handle watching Casey and his family remodeling their "modest" house that is enormous and quite nice already.

The storyline on characters finally being on board with Duttons death being a murder is ridiculous. How would a coroner not have discovered these rather obvious marks on his body? And no one has looked into the random prescription of Oxy in his cabinet that no doctor has prescribed him? How is a hit crew this terrible at their job to be this sloppy? I'd be pissed if I paid millions for a hit job that's executed by people with a middle school education on executing.

Just frustrated but understand that shows like this are bound to die a lame death when the major reason it was popular to begin with has left (Costner).