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Yellowstone Recap: Suffering Is the Job

With so few episodes left, getting the whole cast involved can feel counterproductive.

With the investigation into the John Dutton murder plot taking up most of the narrative real estate in this final half-season, the ranch hands and their stories have felt more disconnected and irrelevant than ever. I’m not exactly pulling for more scenes at the Four Sixes — last week, cutting the ranch hands entirely led to the best episode of the season — but it’s good to feel like the whole cast is integrated, all part of one story. It also suffers from its placement in the season: “Three Fifty-Three” really dialed up the drama when it came to the investigation into John’s murder and the war between the Dutton siblings, and this time that only really comes into focus in the first half (and very end) of the episode.

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