When Will Season 5B Premiere?
In June 2024, Paramount Network revealed that at long (long!) last the back half of Season 5 would begin to air starting Sunday, Nov. 10, at 8/7c.
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Yellowstone’s Final Episodes: Everything We Know So Far
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Giddy-up, Yellowstone fans, for the end is near. Not near-near, obviously; the Paramount Network smash won’t return with Season 5’s and the series’ conclusion until this fall. But answers to our burning questions are a helluva lot closer than they were before the one-two punch of the strikes that brought Hollywood to a standstill and the behind-the-scenes clashes that left Kevin Costner wishing that someone would tell his side of the story.
Yellowstone: 12 Burning Questions We Need Answered in the Final Episodes
What do we know so far? Read on to find out. We’ve got a production update, a premiere date and even intel on what will happen after Yellowstone is remanded to the metaphorical train station. All of this information could, of course, change in a heartbeat. What’s going on in the executive suites has sounded every bit as juicy as what’s gone down on screen, and we’d almost be surprised if we’d been dealt our last backstage twist.
But the dossier that we’ve built up should prep you as best anything could for the send-off of the Western that we’d hoped would go on and on — and, in a way, is poised to. Ready or not, let’s go.
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Has Production Gotten Underway Yet?
Image Credit: Courtesy of Paramount Network Yup. On May 20, 2024, the announcement came down that, after the writers’ and actors’ strikes were resolved, the cameras had finally started rolling again.
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How Many Episodes Will There Be?
Image Credit: Paramount Network screenshot Before the end of the Season 5 turned into the end of the series, period, six episodes were expected. But co-creator Taylor Sheridan later told The Hollywood Reporter that “if I think it takes 10 episodes to wrap it up, they’ll give me 10. It’ll be as long as it needs to be.”
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Who Is Returning?
Image Credit: Paramount Network screenshot With more loose ends left dangling at the end of Season 5A than you’d find on a fringe jacket (read the recap here), the whole cast is expected to saddle up once more. Sorry — almost the whole cast is expected to saddle up.
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Who Is Not Returning?
Image Credit: Courtesy of Paramount Network Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve surely heard that Kevin Costner and Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan have not exactly seen eye to eye about the leading man’s demands. As a result, the Golden Globe winner Instagrammed on June 20 “that I’m not going to be able to continue, Season 5B or into the future.”
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Who Dies?
Image Credit: Paramount Network screenshot If Costner’s John isn’t laid to rest before the closing credits roll, it’ll be a miracle. Beyond that, anything goes. As Wes Bentley (Jamie) told TVLine back in 2023, the lack of casualties in Season 5A could have been but “a build-up for some crazy bloodbath at the end.”
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Is the End Really the End?
Image Credit: Everett Collection (2) Not by a long shot. Two new Yellowstone spinoffs are already in the works, another prequel, this one tentatively titled 1944, and a modern-day offshoot that has for the moment been branded 2024. The latter is expected to star Matthew McConaughey and Michelle Pfeiffer, but as you read this, no deals have been sealed.
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Will Any Yellowstone Characters Cross Over?
Image Credit: Courtesy of Paramount Network (3) Though the original plan for 2024 was to discard the OG series’ cast, Kelly Reilly, Cole Hauser and Luke Grimes have since been said to be in talks to reprise their roles of Beth Dutton, her rough-hewn hubby Rip Wheeler and kid brother Kayce. That is, if agreements can be made regarding their salaries.
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All his spin offs have spun Taylor Sheridan right out of my orbit. Yellowstone was key and Sheridan killed his golden goose. It could have gone on longer. Too bad!
The Show is will not be Wörth watching without John dutton .Taylor sucks. John made the show
And still you will watch all the episodes when they come out. Sheridan created the show. Costner starred in the show.
Too bad Costner isn’t coming back, but we will all watch it no matter what.
Yellowstone would not be Yellowstone without Kevin Costner finishing the whole series. Please give the fans what they deserve after waiting all this time. We love all of you.
Perhaps, Costner should have decided to honor his commitment to the fans by sticking with Yellowstone instead of deciding to ride off into the sunset to make this generation’s equivalent of Waterworld.
Kevin Costner was the reason I started watching Yellowstone and he will be missed greatly by all his fans. The show pulled millions of people in and made them feel like they were part of the toughest family ever.
Probably going to be anti-climactic. Kevin Costner has been the glue-guy in the series. Beth can’t make calls without her father calling the shots, unless she just goes on a killing spree. Which she might.
I don’t think it was all Taylor, I believe Costner had a part In the mess that was created.