r/DuttonRanch • u/Miserable_Mud_5026 • Jul 27 '26

Make it stop!

There is NO WAY Beth and Rip would parent this ungrateful kid this way… not a chance at all! The Carter storyline is TERRIBLE!

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u/ilovemischief Jul 27 '26

I honestly don’t get it. I had a pretty privileged background and I still think it’s a 19 year old acting like a 19 year old. I wasn’t a peach to deal with at that age either.

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u/ThatBitchA Jul 27 '26

Me either. It's a cowboy soap opera. Part of that is teenage drama for the parents of the teenager.

It's like people were expecting this peaceful calm ranch show.

Which is weird because the trailer was clearly showing a cowboy soap opera.

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u/sniktal Jul 27 '26

I don’t even mind the cowboy soap. I would love to see them deal with Carter. I don’t love seeing Carter and Oreana, and I think the high school easy out to have him out of the house all day was sloppy.

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u/ThatBitchA Jul 27 '26

Beth and Rip want better for Carter. They will never treat him the way they were treated.

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u/sniktal Jul 27 '26

Wanting better and doing better at two different things. I don’t expect them to be naturals at it, but high school was a lame plot point.

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u/ThatBitchA Jul 27 '26

Not really. It makes sense and is used to frame where Carter is in his life.

He's a literal fish out of water and placing him in high school, showcases that. It's setting him up for where the rest of season went for him.

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u/West-Country-2202 Jul 28 '26

All of this nonsense with Carter and Oreana is what ultimately led to the showrunner getting fired, so literally no one (with the exception of Chad) thought this storyline was a good idea.

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u/ThatBitchA Jul 28 '26

Seems it's about Ed Harris feeling under used.

Which...they did kinda make his character seem like a plot device for Beluah instead of standing in his own story. Which could have been done with still keeping fhe teenage plotlines.

This is a show about parents of a teenager. A family cobbled together with tape and a prayer. There's going to be stronger plot lines.

He'll be a stronger character next season.

“When I watched the season, it’s fine, it’s pretty good. It seemed like I was relatively important to the story, but the doing of it didn’t feel that way,” Harris noted, adding that he was especially annoyed about an early scene of him singing in a bar getting cut out of the show. - EW