Meanwhile, Beth, Kayce, and Jamie Dutton have been arguing over the family’s future with the ranch, and in the past, the show has offered fairly nuanced, fraught portraits of how useless it is ...

According to Luke Grimes (Kayce Dutton), a sixth season just doesn’t make sense. “I’d do it [but] I just don’t understand how it would work once the story ends,” the actor tells Esquire.