First, they committed what, for me, is the cardinal sin. The beginning of the episode revealed a later event in the episode, and then we got one of those "some hours, days, months or years earlier" things before the show started. This technique has become so overused that I just want to scream when I see it happening.
As for the episode, it was pretty weak. I hope the rest of the series will be better, because I hate to see such a quality show go out with a whimper. Maybe if they hadn't tried to spin Yellowstone off into several other shows the team wouldn't have been too burned out to produce a dignified end to the show that started it all.
