Somewhere underneath the soap suds and lazy caricatures.
There seems to be a crime noir which is more interesting than Beth Dutton thinking she can go to a bar and give everybody else secondary cancer or John Dutton putting his grandson's life at risk through carelessness.
An earlier episode saw Jimmy Hurdstrom getting branded. This episode makes clear that branded men in Dutton's ranch are the equivalent of a made man in mafia organisations.
John Dutton is not some veteran gruff cattleman and cowboy. He seems to be the head of a murky criminal empire that engages in murder.
It is this aspects that could be better explored in later episodes.
There seems to be a crime noir which is more interesting than Beth Dutton thinking she can go to a bar and give everybody else secondary cancer or John Dutton putting his grandson's life at risk through carelessness.
An earlier episode saw Jimmy Hurdstrom getting branded. This episode makes clear that branded men in Dutton's ranch are the equivalent of a made man in mafia organisations.
John Dutton is not some veteran gruff cattleman and cowboy. He seems to be the head of a murky criminal empire that engages in murder.
It is this aspects that could be better explored in later episodes.