Bella Hadid’s cameo in ‘Yellowstone’ as Taylor Sheridan’s girlfriend, explained

I find this particular meta-commentary fascinating. Sheridan made the decision to portray himself as a “condescending” and “misogynist” character and then highlight those traits in his own script. This could be considered intelligent metacriticism, or at least a touch of self-awareness, if it weren’t for the line he writes immediately after. “Have you ever seen him ride?” implies that Sadie couldn’t care less about the character’s condescension or misogyny, and indeed no one should– because look at this specimen of raw male power! Cowboys like Travis are the exception to the rule of weak, coddled American men and should be treated as such.

The problem is that every toxic masculine man in America thinks he is an exception. Sheridan certainly seems to think that of himself. A typical example: The Yellowstone The creator had the nerve to write a “Give the World Away” scene with Beth – written as the most empowered female character Yellowstone– Travis doesn’t even say three times that she “needs” him. He then makes her play strip poker to enlist his help at an auction at the Dutton Ranch. When she loses and starts to take off her clothes, he tells her he’s “just fucking her.” Travis’ arrogance is repeatedly interpreted as a joke, but when the creator of the so-called Taylor Sheridan universe plays him, it’s hard not to find this “joke” too far-fetched to believe.

Later in the episode, Beth asks her husband Rip (Cole Hauser) how he could stand being friends with that “smug idiot” Travis. Rip begins an unnecessarily long monologue about how he and Travis once got into a bar fight over a girl and the injured Travis fought off a group of railroad workers to get Rip’s cowboy hat for him. “I mean, shit, Beth, how many friends do you have?” Rip asks his wife. “Only you,” she replies, smiling. I’ll spare you the many, many paragraphs I could write about The line of dialogue, particularly what it implies about Sheridan’s thoughts on female friendships and heterosexual marriage. All I know is that I could write it.

Even before Hadid’s cameo and Beth’s depressing character arc, Sheridan seemed determined to turn a once-powerful tale of the decline of the American West into a vehicle for selling branded merchandise, flaunting his own abs, and seeking maximum narrative revenge Kevin to reprise Costner’s John Dutton III after the actor unceremoniously left the show earlier this season. Beth, once one of my favorite characters, seems completely lost in the midst of these machinations. Hadid’s Sadie still has time to escape this fate, but with YellowstoneThe clock is ticking, she’d best get out while she can.