Prepare for the final episodes
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Paramount Network’s hit Western Yellowstone should have eased into its record-breaking ratings sunset, but instead, it’s looking more like a difficult show to tame.
Season 5, which has been on hiatus since January, will be the show’s final season, and while we always knew the end was near, we didn’t expect it to be so soon, and Paramount Network probably neither.
Star Kevin Costner’s involvement in the final episodes of the series has yet to be announced as the actor moves on to a new passion project of his own – a Western series – which became the impetus for the finale of the series. But there’s some good news from the farm: Yellowstone Season 5 is gearing up to return to production, and at the same time, it’ll reach a whole new audience when it airs on CBS.
There is a lot of unfinished business that needs to be resolved before the flagship series launches. Civil war has broken out among the Duttons, with Jamie (Wes Bentley) and Beth (Kelly Reilly) facing off, John (Costner) at risk of impeachment, and a devastating disease spreading throughout the wildlife. in Montana and endangering the Duttons’ cattle.
Below, we’ll take a look at what we know about the second half of the final season, including the latest release date, cast information, and a recap of the first part of the season to help you prepare. Be prepared for what is about to happen.
Latest news about Yellowstone
It’s almost time for the Yellowstone team to mount their horses. Production on Season 5 is expected to resume in late spring 2024, Variety reported on November 16. There has been no update on what role Kevin Costner will play in Part 2 of the final season together.
Yellowstone is coming to an end with Season 5
Yellowstone will end with Season 5, Paramount has announced. At the time of the announcement in early May, the final episodes of the series were scheduled to premiere in November 2023, while a currently untitled sequel was confirmed to be in the works and to come out. debuted in December. However, a strike by writers and actors delayed both projects, and Season 5 will now return in November 2024.
News of the show’s end comes after months of speculation surrounding the question of whether Kevin Costner would return for the remainder of Season 5 (and a report claiming Costner would leave the show after Season 5, before news of the final season was announced). ). It’s unclear how involved Costner will be in the final episodes. But in an eye-opening interview with The Hollywood Reporter in June, Sheridan insisted that his intended ending was still happening, and The Hollywood Reporter said discussions were taking place with Costner’s team. to film more scenes to perfect his character.
“I’m disappointed,” Sheridan said in the interview. “It shortens his character arc. It doesn’t change it, but it truncate it.”
have only six episodes, but that may no longer be true. Sheridan told The Hollywood Reporter, “If I think it takes 10 episodes to finish the show, [Paramount Network will] give me 10 episodes. It will be as long as it needs to be.”
Paramount has announced a new contemporary Yellowstone spinoff series called 2024, which appears to be the highly anticipated Yellowstone sequel that Matthew McConaughey is in talks to lead. Sheridan has previously indicated that the series could take place in a different location than the flagship show.
“There are a lot of places where a way of life that has existed for 150 years is having difficulty with a new way of life, but the challenges are completely different,” Sheridan tells THR. “There are so many places you can tell this story.”
One of the places Sheridan wanted to tell that story was Ranch 6666, the real-life ranch in North Texas that became part of Yellowstone’s story and is a property that Sheridan now owns. However, production of the 6666 is currently on hold as Sheridan is looking to spend more time with it as he has personally witnessed its long history.
Yellowstone season 5 summary
Need to catch up on recent episodes? Read our full recaps and cast interviews for the latest Season 5 episodes.
Episodes 1 and 2: John Ruffles Feathers as Governor and Creative Rip on the farm
– Episode 3: Beth rushed away but was still handcuffed
– Episode 4: Summer Higgins returns to cause trouble
– Episode 5: Vegan dinner in the best episode of Season 5
– Episode 6: Dawn Olivieri of Yellowstone Explains what Sarah is doing to Jamie
– Episode 7: Yellowstone’s Piper Perabo in the Heard Kiss ‘Fair Round
– Episode 8: The Yellowstone midseason finale sees Beth and Jamie prepare for war
Yellowstone season 5 review
After four seasons of manipulation, plotting and power struggles amid Montana’s relatively untouched beauty, new governor John Dutton is now calling the shots, with Beth (Kelly Reilly) running the show behind him ta. His intentions are clear in the two-part premiere of Season 5. The ranch managers haven’t changed their ways, despite John’s new gig, which creates some Best scenes in the first episodes. Read TV Guide’s full review of the two-part premiere here:
Yellowstone season 5 premiere review: John Dutton may be Governor, but the ranch remains the same
The cast of Yellowstone season 5
It’s still a mystery whether fans can expect to see Kevin Costner in the final episodes, but Season 5 has brought a mix of familiar and new faces to the farm. Josh Lucas returns as young John Dutton for the first time since Season 3. He joins Kylie Rogers as young Beth and Kyle Red Silverstein as young Rip. Jacki Weaver also returns as the Duttons’ latest business nemesis, Market Equities CEO Caroline Warner, with Mo Bring Plenty and Wendy Moniz promoted to series regulars as Thomas Rainwater’s right-hand man (Gil Birmingham) Mo and governor-turned-senator Lynelle Perry, respectively.
Four new characters have also arrived in Yellowstone. Kai Caster plays a young cowboy named Rowdy. Lainey Wilson plays musician Abby. Lilli Kai plays Clara Brewer, Governor Dutton’s new assistant. And 1883’s Dawn Olivieri joins the cast as Sarah Atwood, a newcomer to Montana and “company shark” who bonds with Jamie.
The entire bunkhouse also returns, including Forrie J. Smith, Denim Richards, Ian Bohen, Ryan Bingham and Jen Landon as Teeter, who has been promoted to series regular.
Before the season premiered, it was announced that Kathryn Kelly, who plays Jimmy’s fiancée, Emily, had also been promoted to series regular and returned to the show alongside Jefferson White as Jimmy. So far, they’ve only appeared in the midseason finale and are happily living and working at Four Sixes Ranch in Texas.
The second half of the season will also likely feature more of Orli Gottesman as Halie, a young, confident girl who is attracted to Carter. So far, we’ve only seen her at the county fair and briefly in the midseason finale. “In Season 5, Halie becomes the person who gives Carter a chance to come out of his shell and teaches him not only about himself, but he finds himself always wanting Halie by his side,” her character description says. write. “Halie comes along and now there’s someone who can fit that mold and be there for him.”
Yellowstone Universe Explains: Every Show, How to Watch, Dutton Family Tree, and More
Main cast:
Kevin Costner as John Dutton
Kelly Reilly as Beth
Luke Grimes as Kayce
Wes Bentley as Jamie
Cole Hauser as Rip
Kelsey Asbille as Monica
Brecken Merrill as Tate
Finn Little as Carter
Gil Birmingham as Thomas Rainwater
Yellowstone season 4 summary
Yellowstone Season 5 picks up after the bloody events of the Season 4 finale; Beth (Kelly Reilly), who we all know is the real brains behind all the action at the Yellowstone-Dutton Ranch, manipulated her adoptive brother Jamie (Wes Bentley) into killing her biological father, Garrett ( Will Patton). After it was revealed that Garrett was the one who ordered the attack on John, Beth, and Kayce (Luke Grimes) in Season 3, Beth guessed that he had arrived. She also made sure to stay on top of the evidence, so now she has helped Jamie escape the governor’s race, clearing the way for their father to become the only Dutton to run for office. She also just got married to Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) and saw her father’s new, puzzling vegetarian special friend (Piper Perabo) go to jail, so it’s basically Beth and everyone else is just living in it.
Complicating Beth’s quest for world/Montana domination is the fact that Kayce is on a spiritual journey that has shown him visions of two paths. At least one of those paths, as he told Monica (Kelsey Asbille), will lead to “the end of us.” Whatever that means, it can’t be good.
Prequel and spin-off of Yellowstone
In November 2023, Paramount officially green-lit two spin-off series: 1944 and a contemporary spinoff titled 2024. Variety reported that, according to sources, 2024 will feature new characters as well as Some crossover characters from the top movie. This appears to be the next series that Matthew McConaughey is said to be in talks to star in, although that has yet to be confirmed. No launch date has been announced.
A prequel limited series, 1883, aired on Paramount+ in late 2021 and revealed the Dutton family’s origin story to Montana. The film stars Isabel May as brave and adventurous teenager Elsa, older sister of John Dutton’s great-grandfather, John Sr., and Tim McGraw as her father, James.
The second Yellowstone prequel, titled 1923, premiered in December 2022. It takes place 40 years after 1883 with the next generation of Duttons tending their farm after World War I and the beginning of Prohibition. The series is expected to return for Season 2 starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren as Jacob and Cara Dutton, the brother and sister-in-law of Tim McGraw’s James Dutton from 1883. Premiere 1923 also reveals some hidden secrets about the Dutton family tree.
Sheridan is also writing a Yellowstone spinoff called 6666, which takes place at the real historical Four Sixes Ranch in Texas (which Sheridan owns) and tells the story of how the ranch continues to operate in the same way as today as before. a century ago. That spinoff will air on Paramount Network, along with the original show, though it’s on hold for now as Sheridan assesses his legacy — as owner, from a front row seat — to honor its history.
The Sheridan-produced limited series Lawmen: Bass Reeves, starring David Oyelowo as Bass Reeves, was originally supposed to exist in the Yellowstone universe as a prequel to 1883, but will now operates as its own standalone series.
Additionally, Sheridan previously said he has several more Yellowstone prequels in the works. “[The prequels] are time capsules of life in Montana as a microcosm of the entire world,” Sheridan told The Hollywood Reporter in June 2023. “[The prequels] are time capsules of life in Montana as a microcosm of the entire world.” The scene became even bigger. I know these are huge bets that Paramount places on me all the time. I’m asking them to fund Game of Thrones Season 6 for what is essentially an annual pilot, and that’s a big ask. Because I’m good at my job and people aren’t bored with the genre, I think there will be enough for many more [prequels] – three or four.”
30 interesting facts about Yellowstone
If you think you’re a Yellowstone fan but want to become a superfan, check out TV Guide’s roundup of 30 (and counting) fun facts and behind-the-scenes secrets about the show, including including how you can take a hands-on tour. Dutton Ranch and what it takes to be a cowboy on Taylor Sheridan’s show.