I don’t watch “Yellowstone” on a regular basis so I don’t know if the story has taken a turn for the worse. But this Sunday, the ratings on the main Paramount channel dropped by 760,000 viewers from the previous week.
What happened? I don’t know. Keep in mind, “Yellowstone Season 5” through last week is number 1 in home viewing of all DVD and streaming. And the numbers on CMT, the other cable channel that carries it, were up. Is there general “Yellowstone” fatigue? Maybe. I guess we’ll see as the season proceeds.
Meantime, “White Lotus” had its sixth and penultimate episode. Numbers were about the same as the previous week– 684,000– on HBO, so that’s good news. HBO is doing a great job with publicity, there are stories everywhere about what will happen in this Sunday’s finale. My guess is that Daphne (Meghann Fahey) kills her horrible husband, Cameron (Theo James) and gets away with it.
My wild theory is that Daphne planted the condom wrapper to cause trouble with Ethan and Harper. Maybe Ethan kills Cameron in a blind rage. After all, the wrapper was left but not the condom? Daphne could have come in through the open adjoining door.
Who else dies? Maybe minor characters like Lucia’s pimp (or brother) at the hands of Albie, and definitely either the uncle or brother in the Jennifer Coolidge storyline. Coolidge will move on, probably without her absent husband, Greg, to season three.
Let’s hope season three gets back to the level of the first season, with more sympathetic characters and more story than just kink. These were seven brutal episodes!
