Yellowstone
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Generally speaking, its never good when TV characters take a look at their birth certificates.
First we get a scene where Jamies secretary tells him his official hiring paperwork requires a birth certificate.
Then we see Jamie getting into an elevator.
(Because if we didnt see that we might wonder, Wait, how did he get downstairs?)
Then we see him at a desk requesting the birth certificate.
Then we see a clerk walk down a corridor of file cabinets.
Then we cut away toa different scene with other characters.
A few minutes later in the episode, the clerk finally returns, and delivers the not-so-surprising news.
The whole birth certificate sequence loaded withwhite-knuckle document-requesting action!
is grating in part because before then this episode sports a pleasantly easygoing hangout vibe.
Rip is heavily involved in two storylines in The Beating.
Ones about his relationship with Beth, naturally.
Jimmy and his motor-mouthed, free-spirited girlfriend Mia come along to help out.
This particular subplot is intended to serve two purposes, neither of which in my estimation is especially vital.
(When the fuck did the bunkhouse become Paradise Island?
John as John does refuses to admit any wrongdoing or even to acknowledge Jamies raw feelings.
Instead he matter-of-factly says that Jamies biological father was a mean S.O.B.
who beat his biological mother to death with a shower-head.
It seems we only ever see John growl out orders and complain about how the worlds no good.
To be honest, in most weeks, the file clerks job looks more exciting.
In the real America where I live, people know how to be courteous.
Mias impressed that Rip has a thousand-dollar pair of spurs tossed idly in the back seat of his truck.
Jimmy who has apparently done zero research into anything rodeo-related is shocked by that price.
But Mia lets him know thats standard.
Cool shit aint cheap, she warns.
And cheap shit aint cool.
He counters that he has decisions to make that take time and take a lot of thought.
