Yellowstone, fourth season. Beth Dutton is like the horrible, mutant offspring of a long-ago boss of mine—god, I hated the early 80s—to the hundredth power. With a touch of Luca Brasi. Utterly malignant and the biggest daddy's girl you could ever meet. Loves her father, her brother Kayce, and her lover Rip, hates her other brother Jamie; as for everybody else she doesn't hate them so much as she thinks they're a bunch of flies for her to swat, maybe torturing them first if she's got the time. She only respects people whose talent for Machiavellian skulduggery rivals her own. The only thing is, she's a lot smarter than the aforementioned devildaughter. Not to mention better looking. A conundrum: you could say it's for the best that Beth can't have children, because what kind of parent would such a malignant person be? But—and here the similarity breaks down—it's possible that her sterility is the cause of her malignancy in the first place.

Rip too has a touch of Luca Brasi in him in his absolute fealty to his boss, and his ruthlessness, but, again, he's smarter, smart enough to be a leader of men, and good looking in his macho/cowboy way, good looking enough and ruthless enough to make him interesting to Beth. I can't see Connie Corleone falling for Luca Brasi. Come to think of it, maybe you could analogize Rip to Al Neri: every bit as ruthless, and loyal to his patron, as Luca B., but smarter and more presentable. Rip would kill Jamie in a heartbeat if John Dutton told him to, but if Beth wants to take her time about destroying Jamie, doing it in stages, sadistically, like Stalin's great-granddaughter, so be it.

On a related note, I wonder what the average French waiter thinks about being called garcon, i.e. boy. I don't know, cattle wranglers are called cowboys, and I guess they don't mind. What are they going to do, insist on being called cowmen? The term cattleman, i.e. rancher, is already taken.