After a nearly two-year hiatus, Paramount Network’s Yellowstone returns Sunday with the Season 5 midseason premiere, the first of its six final episodes.
The final episodes of the hit series have been shrouded in mystery, even to the cast, with several actors revealing they were kept in the dark about the exit of Kevin Costner’s John Dutton.
The show wasted no time by revealing in the opening moments of the Season 5 Part 2 premiere with the death of Dutton, seemingly by suicide.
Costner made a dramatic exit from the series over scheduling conflicts with his Western movie franchise Horizon, though fans were quite upset at how he was killed off.
Fans took to social media to react en masse to the beloved character’s exit as the neo-Western series comes to a close.
After a nearly two-year hiatus, Paramount Network’s Yellowstone returns Sunday with the Season 5 midseason premiere, the first of its six final episodes.
Costner made a dramatic exit from the series over scheduling conflicts with his Western movie franchise Horizon, and it’s unclear if he’ll be seen at all in the final six episodes
Given how hard John Dutton has fought for everything in his life, fans were furious, insisting he would never have killed himself.
@Thecraftyturtle said, ‘Ok no way John Dutton killed himself. They did his character dirty!!’
@KayCee1771 said, ‘Not the way i expected #Yellowstone to start,’ as @AmberLee_0123 said, ‘It hasn’t been 5 minutes of #Yellowstone and I AM NOT OKAY.’
@FolkToe said ‘#Yellowstone Run Jamie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’ insinuating Dutton’s son Jamie (Wes Bentley) was involved.
It’s not too surprising that Jamie may be blamed, since the show’s last episode nearly two years ago showed Jamie entertaining various ways to have his father killed with his new romantic interest Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri).
She told Jamie there were companies that specialized in making murders look like accidents or even a heart attack.
However, as the episode continued, it became more clear that Sarah seemingly took matters into her own hands and organized John’s death to simply make it look like a suicide… covering up his actual murder.
@thetvescape said, ‘Wait, so now it’s looking more and more likely that the “suicide” was staged!’
@Thecraftyturtle said, ‘Ok no way John Dutton killed himself. They did his character dirty!!’
@KayCee1771 said, ‘Not the way i expected #Yellowstone to start,’ as @AmberLee_0123 said, ‘It hasn’t been 5 minutes of #Yellowstone and I AM NOT OKAY’
@thetvescape said, ‘Wait, so now it’s looking more and more likely that the “suicide” was staged!’
@BroGod4Life said, ‘They don’t believe John Dutton attempt suicide they believe either Sarah, Jamie or somebody had anything to do what happened to him if they have proof and it’s going to take time.’
@BroGod4Life said, ‘They don’t believe John Dutton attempt suicide they believe either Sarah, Jamie or somebody had anything to do what happened to him if they have proof and it’s going to take time.’
After fans saw Sarah ultimately confirming her involvement in Governor Dutton’s death, she surprised Jamie at his home, scantily clad with champagne glasses.
She was surprised that he was shedding tears over his father, when
The news of a sixth season following Beth and Rip have come as a surprise to some fans.
The on-screen couple were reportedly in talks of joining the Yellowstone spinoff The Madison, starring Michelle Pfeiffer.
In April, when asked about the possibility of a sixth season, Reilly told RadioTimes: ‘I just care about finishing [Yellowstone] with as much care and as much passion and as much love as I can muster to put into it… I’m sort of prepping for that now, [and] that’s my tunnel-vision thing that I care about most.’
‘And what goes on beyond that? There are discussions, you know. Don’t believe everything you read. It’s just nonsense,’ she continued.
Paramount Network also ordered another spin-off entitled 1944, which will follow the prequel shows 1883 and 1923, following earlier generations of the Dutton clan.