But again - why call Jamie to the presser?

I do think this may be John, in his own gruff-ass Dutton way, trying to protect Jamie from himself.

I mean how much public scrutiny does John really want Jamie facing. And yeah, now he'll face it, but with a lot more savvy (and a fair amount more "IDGAF") than Jamie would have.

I almost wonder if he doesn't feel like he's stepping in front of a bullet for Jamie, just as much as for Montana writ large.

Some of this maybe to a degree. But if “stepping in front of a bullet” for Jamie, why not give him a heads up before hand? Or hell, even just not telling him at all would have been kinder than this. This was just unusually cruel.

Unless the story is going to get more unbelievable and John has some how learned who was really behind the hit and punishing Jamie for covering it up. God, I hope that’s not the case, that would be even worse writing than we’ve seen so far this year.

Right so that shitty cowboy in me song is a Tim McGraw one which I’m sure McGraw leveraged some money out of paramount for the 1887 series because agents man.

The other one felt more natural. But yeah. There was horse jacking.

I went back and watched the last show from the last three years because lots of stuff happens in the last show of each season. I don't know how many total people have been killed since the first episode, but I think it's in the neighborhood of 25 or 30. I think they've sent three or four guys to the "train station." The chick who had Jamie's baby is red hot. She straddles him in his campaign office in the first season and screws him on a desk. The chick who's currently hot for Kayce was a stripper that Rip hired to be a groomer and was the first chick in the bunkhouse. John has beat cancer and multiple gunshot wounds. Beth survived a brutal rape and being blown up in her office. Kayce's wife got a brain injury as a teacher and was being strangled by a serial rapist on the reservation when Mo took the guy out with a sniper shot to the head. Jamie killed a reporter after spilling the shit on his dad. There's a lot of complicated stuff going on here...

Yeah, I feel like maybe "Cowboy in Me" was the moment the show jumped the shark.

That's a 5 minutes music video for a mainstream country artist where absolutely nothing happens because said artist is on a spinoff. And as noted - it's a shitty song.

The whole thing had a real "Benedict Cumberbatch is James Bond now" feel to it when you realized that 'uh oh, Sherlock might just suck now...'

Agreed. Especially on the shitty song business.

I’ll give them some rope though. I still sees avenues to save it.

Who's more pussywhipped? Jamie or Kacey?

Jamie is a pussy. Kacey loves his wife.

Jamie.

At least Kacey has tagged Monica more than once.

Better episode tonight.

1883 is pretty good if you like Westerns.

Definitely a better episode. But damn. CRAZY shit happens in this town LOL.

Just a random holdup ends in massive gunfight? Hoo boy.

The rest is going to be on the other side of the paywall, correct? I'm out.

Besides, I can't stand Tim McGraw OR Faith Hill to a degree that is uncalculatable.

Outside of Hazzard County. :D

Tim McGraw is pretty damn good in the new show. Faith Hill is pretty blah. They try to put the Hollywood woke shit in a western from 1883 though lol.

This season has had it's moments, but for the most part, it blows.

You probably shake your head at how they portray Montana in it like I do with Ozark.