9 pm can't get here soon enough--I have big plans for Rip tonight. . . . . 

just started watching - have to admit it is good.

  Is Rip the dark headed guy with the beard? Why did they beat Beth up?

and what is the family fighting for? 

I don't have time towatch  all the back series.

just catch me up if you can.

OH MY---let me try. Indians building casino near ranch, Jenkins involved with Indians building it but is getting pushed out, Duttons dont want casino period because it willd drive up property values so much that it will be hard for them to pay the taxes. Beck Brothers, bad guys and outsiders are pushing in---they don't want casino either because they have others and it will hurt them. They had Beth beat up. That is Cliff Notes but you really need to watch last season and earlier ones this season.

I have a feeling when it's all done that Jamie will be the only one left. 

Love this show. But the only thing is why does Beth hate jamie so much? that one I just don't get.

Let me answer the mot important question you asked---oh YEEEESSS, Rip is The Man with the dark beard.    

I guess I'm forgetting the reason too--is it related to their momma's death?   Blame for that?

Does anyone think the Becks are gonna kidnap Tate?

I feel like it has to do with her and Rip the way she went inside and went after him after John was talking about Rip and Tate. I really hope they don’t hurt Tate!

If they hurt him, Kayce will go deadly soldier on them, Monica will go Native, and heaven help them with what John will do. . . . 

They are saying that there is a specific reason for the hate and it is justified and that we will find out. 

I think she blames Jamie for her mothers death at the gate.  He is what took her mother away from her and she just can't let it go..

When she watched Rip with tate at the corral she was remembering back how her mother was with her.  Notice how she had that smile on her face at that moment.  Then the anger set back in and she went after Jamie.

At the end of Wednesday show that nasty guy commented that he would go after what John loved the most and his boot was on a pic of Tate.  Not going to be good!

Too obvious---I think it will go deeper than that. 

I think so too. She was talking about love. I think he did something so she and rip couldn’t be together.

I think Beth hates Jamie because she sees him as weak. 

I think she hates herself for being weak(scared) that caused her mom to die.  She has mention that since then, she doesn't get scared(weak) anymore.

Thus why she is a major hard B***h. 

Just my take on it.

This is by far the best show out there right now. It’s Dallas on steroids made for Cinemax viewers. Beth is seriously a bad a_ _! When Jason was killed and she got hit so hard she fell back - I think the breath left my body as well and then Rip came to the rescue - I found myself literally on the edge of my seat. 

I’m thinking the hatred for Jamie has to do with a horse. Maybe she was riding Jamie’s horse when her mom died? The spouting off about the family business to a reporter surly didn’t help him at all. 

FYI - if you don’t have cable you can stream the entire first season for free on the Paramount Networks website or Amazon. I have Direct Now (the streaming app) aka AT&T and can watch on my phone - have recorded all of season 2 for winter watching. 

I was just discussing this on my facebook. Mine and others theories are:

 Jamie did something that ruined things for Rip and Beth. Maybe he told their father about their relationship. Maybe they were planning to run away /were pregnant possibly. Something along those lines. Maybe Beth was pregnant and Jamie told their father and he made her give the baby up... 

The only other thing we can come up with besides that Beth is just a vile and mean/damaged person is that maybe she has taken the fall for something involving her mothers death that was really Jamie's. Or maybe he did something that in her mind caused their mothers death.

I also am wondering if Jamie is John Duttons biological son. Not only because of comments he made about not loving him "the same" but because in the begginning of season 1 there was a portrait of the family. There were only 3 kids, NOT FOUR. So someone in the odd man out here...

My hubby thinks Jaimie did something to break Rip and Beth up when they were younger. When we saw Beth watching Rip with Tate, it was like she was thinking what could have been and he would have made a great Dad. Jaimie definitely did something to Beth and Rip long ago that affected her life down the road like her Mother’s death did too. Beth was actually blamed/self blamed for her Mother’s death as she was scared of her horse and handling the gate when her Mom’s horse spooked and dumped her.

The thing about the Becks going after Tate is too obvious. My hubby also,thinks that with Tate bugging everyone to ride his new horse, Tate does try to ride him and goes missing. Then the family thinks the Becks got him, but they didn’t. In the preview trailer, it shows Beth huddled over someone. I don’t think they will do anything to Tate. The preview does briefly show Casey going all soldier. Becks go after someone, but we don’t really know who.

W are so desperate for more that we watched the preview like 3x trying to figure something out. It was such fantastic acting when Beth was in the barn with Jaimie. You could feel the hate.

Can ya’ll tell that our household is completely addicted? LOL

Only 2 episodes left!!!    Like my husband said last night, It's going to be a long year of waiting!!

I love this show!  I can't get enough.  I really hope they don't do anything to Tate... my TV may end up in the dumpster!  

I'm still slightly confused as to why the Becks are after the Dutton's now, since they want the same thing - everyone out of the valley. Other than John D didn't accept their assistance in getting rid of folks.  I sure hope the Duttons get to the Becks first. 

I now feel the need to go back to season 1 and find this picture, ocd like that.

I do find it interesting that Beth and Rip’s relationship has a forbidden tone.  Like it’s not a secret, but no ones inviting Rip to Christmas dinner either.  You’d think after he saved her he’d be welcome to recoup in the big house...I’m very curious about the history.

and sad there’s only 2 episodes left...what if they leave us hanging...