While the 1923 ending further delayed Spencer's return to the ranch, a Dutton reunion is imminent in the plot of 1923 season 2, which is yet to be assigned an official release date. However, after fighting in the First World War - which occurred from 1914 to 1918 - the ranch founder's youngest son, Spencer Dutton, has chosen to escape his past by hunting in Namibia, leaving the rest of his family to take care of things in Montana. By 1923, the Duttons have consolidated enough power for Jacob to become the livestock commissioner - the beginnings of the Dutton political dynasty in Montana. The next morning Kayce brings Lee’s lifeless body back to the Dutton ranch on his horse.1923 is the violent year in which Jacob and his wife Cara Dutton (Helen Mirren) struggled to carry ranch across the turn of the century. Kayce witnesses the incident and kills his brother-in-law in retaliation. The standoff results in a shootout that leads to Lee’s death at the hands of Kayce’s brother-in-law. The Duttons try to herd the cattle home, while Kayce, taking the side of his in-laws, gets in the middle and attempts to herd the cattle further into the reservation. When the Duttons arrive at the reservation they find Monica’s brother and grandfather guarding the cattle. Over Jamie’s protests, John takes off in a helicopter, while Lee rides on horseback with a posse of Bureau of Land Management agents loyal to the family. Without a satisfying conclusion to the dispute, John goes to the Native American reservation to retrieve his cattle. John accuses him of theft but Rainwater doesn’t back down. Rainwater says the cows are his people’s now. Later, John and Rainwater meet to negotiate a resolution to the issue. When John goes to see what the trouble is, the Native Americans threaten to shoot him if he crosses the border into their land. As a result, the Duttons’ cattle wander onto the Native American’s land. The Native Americans cut the barbed wire off the fence that marked the border between their land and the Duttons’. It’s this latter issue that leads to the incident that seems likely to fuel much of the plot moving forward. He wants to right the wrongs that were done to his people by buying back the land that was stolen from them, including the Dutton ranch. Meanwhile, Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) is elected the Chairman of the local Native American tribe. However, for the first two episodes, she does little beyond sniping at pretty much anyone she comes into contact with. John also summons Beth home to help with the issue. He even threatens the developer, Dan Jenkins (Danny Huston), over it. He wants the developer’s project to build subdivisions next to his ranch stopped entirely. Jamie successfully holds off a land developer’s claim of eminent domain on 30,000 acres of the Dutton ranch, but John is still unsatisfied. John has four adult children: Lee (Dave Annable), the son who stayed to help run the ranch Beth (Kelly Reilly), the only daughter, who escaped to the city, where she’s a take-no-prisoners corporate banker Jamie (Wes Bentley), a lawyer who, desperate for his father’s approval, defends his interests in court and then there’s rebel son, Kayce (Luke Grimes), a former Navy SEAL who now lives on the nearby Indian Reservation with his Native American wife, Monica (Kelsey Asbille), and their son, Tate (Brecken Merrill). There’s Costner’s patriarch, John Dutton, who’s ruthlessly protective of his land and wields power over the Montana town in which he lives and his children’s lives. The first episode of Yellowstone, “Daybreak,” begins by introducing viewers to the Dutton clan, who own the sprawling Yellowstone Ranch in Montana. Yellowstone, Season 1, Episode 1 recap: “Daybreak” This is especially true in the two-hour series premiere. Throughout there are lots of plodding, vague exchanges, punctuated by bursts of violence that don’t feel entirely earned. Unfortunately, the story and pacing of the series’ first two episodes are uneven. There are big sweeping shots of the beautiful, wide-open landscape, a soundtrack dedicated to country and bluegrass music, and horses and cowboy hats everywhere. Given its pedigree, it will come as no surprise that Yellowstone nails the look and feel of the genre.
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