Why Yellowstone’s Danny Huston Says Dan Jenkins Has A Moral Compass – Looper

In an interview with TV Insider, Danny Huston said that he believes that Dan Jenkins still has a “moral core,” and that any “harm that happens to others is not something that Dan Jenkins really takes a great pleasure in.” He went on to say that Jenkins feels sorry for the Duttons whenever he senses a weakness in them.

Fans seem to agree, with most finding Jenkins more pathetic than evil. In a thread in the r/YellowstonePN subreddit, u/Sammatterhorn said, “Deep down inside he wasn’t a bad person but just wanted to make money” and that he had to be killed off to make way for more sinister villains, like Market Equities. Similarly, u/DarKnight972 said they felt sympathy for the character, while u/Fmal_DeHyde called the character “weak.”

Indeed, Jenkins is somewhat pathetic. He’s an outsider who comes in to try and make money in Montana and joins forces with Rainwater in hopes of developing the area, only to battle tooth and nail with the Duttons and be cheated by Rainwater. It’s also true that, with Jenkins out of the way at the end of Season 2, the show created a chance for themselves to raise the stakes by creating other, more diabolical villains, including Sarah Atwood and Angela Blue Thunder. In that sense, Jenkins’ moral compass is exactly what got him killed off on the show and replaced.