Are we already?

We're rolling, better stop talking about

all my emotional trauma.

This could be like a Dr. Drew, you know what I mean?

Where you call in and talk about your problems.

Except I'm utterly unqualified to help with anything.

Flip that mug around, flip that mug around.

Getting a signal from the producers that they like me,

they really like me.

I'm drunk with power.

Oh boy!

(rock music)

Hey, my name is Jefferson White.

I play Jimmy on the Paramount Network's "Yellowstone".

"Welcome to the Yellowstone" Episode 10.

Holy cow.

The end, the finale in some ways.

The exciting conclusion of season one of

"Welcome to the Yellowstone".

We'll see if there's any cliffhangers.

We'll see who lives and who dies in Episode 10

of "Welcome to the Yellowstone".

It's literally just me so, here's hoping I don't die.

What do you think guys?

Am I gonna make it?

Am I gonna make it through season one of

"Welcome to the Yellowstone"?

Is Breia gonna make it?

- [Breia] Definitely not.

- Definitely not? Dang! (laughs)

No, you're writing this puppy, you've got self,

you're in control of your own destiny.

- [Breia] Perhaps.

- What a rare opportunity

to be in control of your own destiny.

You know, so many of us are beholden to larger powers,

big shifting seismic plates.

- [Breia] I'm beholden to ViacomCBS.

- Me too, big time.

So we'll just ask our corporate daddy.

- [Breia] Our corporate daddy (laughs)?

- Do we make it?

Do we make it through?

I hope so.

The real point I'm trying to make here is

thank you guys so much for tuning in with us so far.

Thank you for your questions, for your comments,

for everything.

It's because of you that we're here making this,

and we're so, so grateful.

It's so fun for us to do.

We've been having a great time figuring it out,

working it out together along with you,

talking to you, answering your questions,

listen to your voicemails.

We've had an amazing time doing this show.

So thank you very, very much.

We're just really grateful for this opportunity.

And it's because of you.

It's because the fans of "Yellowstone" demand more.

They always want more.

They're always just taking and taking and taking

and they want more, which is great because

all I know how to do is give, got no boundaries.

Just take whatever you want.

You can have it.

Does anyone want the shirt off my back?

It's yours.

So every episode of "Welcome to the Yellowstone"

we've been going through and doing a recap

of an episode of "Yellowstone".

The first season of "Yellowstone" Has got nine episodes.

This is our 10th episode of "Welcome to the Yellowstone"

so we thought what we might do is just talk about

the season as a whole.

Do a quick five-minute recap of season one of "Yellowstone".

And that's crazy.

We've been doing five-minute recaps of each episode.

You think we can do nine episodes in five minutes?

- [Breia] No, but I think we should try.

- Hell yeah.

You know you don't believe in me?

- [Breia] I do believe in you.

I've believed in you this whole season

and what did you do in episode nine?

- I did it, I made it, I did it, wow.

I finally pulled it off.

Your belief in me was finally justified.

So many people have believed in me

and been so kind to me my whole life

and I've just let them down over and over again.

But not this time.

Not today, baby.

Here we go "Yellowstone" season one in five minutes.

John Dutton, Livestock Commissioner

and the owner of the largest cattle ranch

in the United States.

Massive ranch called the Yellowstone.

He's got a bunch of kids.

He's got Beth Dutton, his daughter.

She's a very powerful financial assassin.

She works in Mergers and Acquisitions

at a company called Schwartz & Meyer.

He's got Jamie Dutton and his son who's a lawyer.

He's a sort of law assassin, lawssassin.

And then he's got his youngest son, Kayce,

who is a badass cowboy

who has a very contentious relationship with his father

and his legacy.

And then there's also Lee Dutton,

but he dies in episode one.

So sorry Lee, we don't have time to talk about you

and all your amazing qualities.

This has already been too much time spent on that.

Kayce lives with his wife, Monica and their son, Tate

on a reservation called the Broken Rock Indian Reservation.

The chieftain of that reservation is Thomas Rainwater,

who is a new up and coming chief

and one of the big "antagonists" of the season.

But as we'll come to learn over the season,

he's much more complicated than that.

He's not just a bad guy or a good guy, nobody is.

These are rich, complex characters.

Then you got Dan Jenkins, very powerful land developer,

wealthy, ambitious, creative,

another one of these sort of complicated antagonists/

anti-heroes.

So you got John Dutton, Rainwater and Dan Jenkins,

three powerful people with different ideas

of what the future should be, what progress means,

whether progress is good or bad.

And over the course of season one,

they're sort of jockeying for control of

the political landscape but also the landscape landscape

of this Montana massive cattle ranch.

Rip Wheeler, one of those folks that

don't have time to go back and fix it,

you're gonna have to fix that in post.

Rip Wheeler works for John Dutton.

He's powerful right-hand man, big tough cowboy guy.

I, Jimmy Hurdstrom, less tough, less big, less cowboy guy,

but also works for John Dutton.

So they're similar in that way.

And over the course of this first season,

the tensions between John Dutton and Thomas Rainwater

are exacerbated by these cows that

wander off of John Dutton's land and onto Rainwater's land,

that sets the stage for a bunch of conflict.

It's gonna go back and forth between those two.

And also Dan Jenkins is trying to build

a massive development right up against the edge

of the Yellowstone,

and that really exacerbates tensions between DJ and JD.

Also over the course of the first season,

Kayce's marriage collapses as Kayce and Monica,

they both have complicated loyalties

to two different ideas of family.

To the Monica's identity on the res

and Kayce's identity in his family, his nuclear family

and Tate, their son.

It's a Romeo and Juliet situation.

They've been pulled in two directions,

by the end of the first season, they get pulled apart

and Kayce moves back in to the ranch.

Also, Jamie Dutton, very sort of ambitious political figure

wants to be the Attorney General of Montana.

His dad at first sets him up.

And then there's a massive conflict between

Jamie and his father

because Jamie didn't respond to his father's call,

didn't return his father's calls.

Don't do that, call your parents.

Jamie and his father have this huge rift.

So then Jamie and John Dutton,

are set up as on opposite sides of this very

tense brewing political conflict

that's also gonna threaten the Yellowstone

and John Dutton's legacy.

Beth Dutton has been, the entire time,

her main target is Dan Jenkins.

She's been assigned to Dan Jenkins' duty

and she's ripping up his life from the inside out.

His personal life, his professional life, his creative life,

probably she's really been tearing him up.

That's been her duty.

But we also learned that she's got a deep sadness

and a very complicated relationship with her brother Jamie,

and with her father, because of the loss of her mother,

all of their mother, Evelyn Dutton,

John's wife who passed about 20 years ago.

Which was a formative tragedy in this family.

So the whole first season,

John Dutton is trying to protect the ranch,

the Yellowstone,

this land that is his family's legacy,

but he's also trying to protect his family.

He's trying to protect his kids, his literal family.

And over the course of the season,

this tension becomes apparent

that sometimes those things are mutually exclusive.

Sometimes, fighting for the good of the ranch

isn't necessarily fighting for the good of Jamie.

Sometimes fighting to protect the land

is at odds with what Kayce feels loyalty to.

So that tension between

the responsibility to the land itself

and that responsibility to his family

becomes increasingly exacerbated

over the course of the first season.

And by the end of the first season,

John Dutton is further than ever from his son, Jamie.

And he feels further than ever from a secure, safe future

for his ranch and his legacy.

And also Jimmy falls off a horse a bunch of times.

- [Breia] You did it.

- I mean, did I?

- [Breia] You did.

- There's entire plots that we didn't get to.

- [Breia] Well, obviously but you had five minutes.

- Yeah, here's some other characters.

You got your Colby, you got your Ryan, you got your Mo,

you got your Walker, there's a million.

You got your Governor Perry, you got your Christina,

you got your Sarah Nguyen.

There's a million other things

that we didn't even get to talk about at all.

- [Breia] Well, we did in episodes one through nine.

- That's true.

This was an overview of some themes, some big themes.

- [Breia] So you gotta go back and watch all those.

- You gotta go back and watch all those

to get the details, to go back in and chop up

each of those episodes one by one.

So that's "Yellowstone" season one.

Those of us that are in the know,

who've seen "Yellowstone" season two is available on DVD

at your local stores.

Go to your local DVD store.

The first season really sets up all these conflicts

that erupt in the second season.

So the conflict between Jamie and John Dutton,

the conflict between Kayce and Monica,

between Rip and Kayce, between Jamie and Beth,

between Beth and her father.

The first season lays this incredibly complicated

series of landmines for John Dutton to navigate

and then over and over again, he steps on them (laughs),

in trying to do what's right,

In trying to protect his family.

So it's a very complicated, very rich, very

multifaceted season of television.

And rewatching it knowing what I know about season two,