'YELLOWSTONE' SEASON 5 FEATURES JOHN
DUTTON'S INA BRUTAL WAY
Well, we've
been waiting nearly two years now for Yellowstone to return and finish off its
fifth and final season, but with the advanced news of Kevin Costner's premature
exit from the series, many fans have wondered what the show would do with John
Dutton. . Ever since the very first episode of the Paramount Network drama,
Costner's Dutton patriarch has been the face of the entire Yellowstone
franchise. It's hard to imagine the show without him, but we won't have to any
longer. How did tonight's Season 5 Part 2 return, "Desire Is All You
Need," answer the John Dutton problem
One Of The Most Popular TV Shows In America
Returns Today, But There's A Catch
It’s been
nearly two years since the wildly popular modern Western drama Yellowstone last
aired an episode. Season 5, Part 1 ended with its 7th episode in December of
2022. Episode 8 drops today.
That’s a long
goddamn wait, y’all. I'm allowed to write sentences like that because I'm from
the very place this show takes place: Bozeman, Montana, born and raised. It’s
where I rode my first horse, though I didn’t do any bronco riding and I can’t
lasso to save my life. I can hit the side of a barn with a rifle, but I'm no
John Dutton.
In fact, “no
John Dutton” is apropos, because Kevin Costner will not make an appearance in
this half-season of the series. The movie star and filmmaker of the show had a
much-ballyhooed dispute with mega-producer Taylor Sheridan about the amount of
time he was required to be on set. Costner was—and remains—in the process of
making his epic four-part Western movie series Horizon: An American Saga, and
his attention was too divided to remain a part of the Yellowstone melodrama.
In any case, the story of the Dutton family continues on Paramount Network tonight at 8pm ET and at 10pm ET on CBS (a special airing).
The big “catch”
in the title of this post is that this is the only way to watch unless you wait
for the streaming release on Peacock months later. That's not entirely true.
You can also purchase the season on Prime Video and watch episodes sooner
online. But the only way to keep up with Beth (Kelly Reilly), Rip (Cole
Hauser), Kayce (Luke Grimes), Monica (Kelsey Asbille), Jamie (Wes Bentley),
Jimmy (Jefferson White) and all the rest of the sprawling cast of cowboys and
their antagonists, is to have traditional cable TV.
Beth Dutton will go ‘hurricane’ avenging
John Dutton
During a pre-finale USA TODAY interview, Kelly Reilly, who plays Beth Dutton, said that John Dutton’s most loyal offspring will be devastated by her father's soon-to-be-revealed dark fate.
"There's
only so much a woman can take. He's the center of her soul," Reilly said.
"What's that going to do to this woman? It's going to turn her into a
hurricane."
But John
Dutton’s precise “Yellowstone” future is a tightly kept secret, with most cast
receiving redacted scripts devoid of anything beyond must-know information
about their own characters.
Reilly said she
has known how "Yellowstone" would end since the show started in 2018.
Costner's premature departure has not fundamentally changed that course.
"It wasn't supposed to happen so soon," she said. "But the fact
that we got to return poetically to the show's authentic vision is
satisfying."
Yellowstone' Just Said Goodbye to Kevin
Costner's John Dutton — But How?
Rather than
keep audiences hanging or draw out a season-long elephant in the room,
Yellowstone decides to kill John Dutton off-screen, and immediately as
"Desire Is All You Need" gets started. No, we don't see anything
happening. Without Kevin Costner, we don't even see John Dutton's face (a body
double stands in for the Western icon's corpse). Rather, we watch in horror as
both Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Kayce (Luke Grimes) arrive at the Dutton home,
which is swarmed by flashing lights and emergency responders. It looks, for all
intents and purposes, like John died by suicide, having shot himself in the
head at approximately 3:53 am the very morning that his impeachment trial was
set to start. If that all sounds too convenient — and not at all like the John
Dutton you've been watching for the past 47 episodes — then you're onto
something.
It turns out
that after Jamie's (Wes Bentley) talk with his current lover/corporate shark,
Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri), at the end of Season 5 Part 1, the Market
Equities stooge gets right to business. As "Desire Is All You Need"
jumps between the present with John's death and the recent past, we learn that
Sarah met with a hired gun six weeks prior and hired him to make John's death
look like a suicide. Corporate espionage at its finest. To make things worse,
when Jamie discovers on the news that John killed himself, he's learning about
it for the very first time. After all, when he and Sarah talked about
"professional" options to get rid of Jamie's problems, he was referring
to Beth. Sarah, on the other hand, clearly had Market Equities (and their
Paradise Valley development deals) on her mind. Their biggest opposition, of
course, was always Governor John Dutton.
So John Dutton didn't kill himself. More than likely, he put up some kind of fight before being executed, but right now, we don't know all the details. And frankly, they don't matter. John Dutton is dead. Taylor Sheridan has ushered Yellowstone, both as a standalone series and as the flagship narrative in a larger Yellowstone Universe, into a new age — and there's no going back. Yes, Kevin Costner's name still appears in the opening titles, but the John Dutton we know and love is long gone.
In any case,
the story of the Dutton family continues on Paramount Network tonight at 8pm ET
and at 10pm ET on CBS (a special airing).
How to watch 'Yellowstone' Season 5, Part
2 premiere; streaming info
The show is set
to return on Sunday, Nov. 10 to 8 p.m. ET/PT on the Paramount Network. CBS will
also air the premiere at 10 p.m. E.T.
You won't be
able to stream the "Yellowstone" premiere on Paramount+, the platform
announced, and it is not available with any of the service's subscription
plans. If you have a login to your TV provider, you can sign in to the
Paramount Network and watch the premiere from there.
This Isn't the First Time That John Dutton Has Been Supposedly Killed Off on 'Yellowstone'
Of course, this
isn't the first time that we've seen John Dutton at death's door. Back in
Season 1, we thought that John Dutton was dying of cancer, and the main events
of the first two seasons were largely driven by his desire to ensure his family
legacy before he passed on. (Season 2's "A Thundering" later reveals
that he only had a ruptured ulcer, not colon cancer as he had assumed.) Then,
at the end of Season 3's "The World Is Purple," Dutton is nearly
killed again after Garrett Randall ( Will Patton) orders a hit on the Dutton
family to ensure his biological son, Jamie, would inherit everything he's
"owed." After John is gunned down on the side of the road, it seems
impossible that he would live on. Yet, we got another 18 episodes (and two seasons)
out of him.
If this is actually it for John Dutton (and we have no reason at this point to believe that it isn't), and if Kevin Costner doesn't return with a surprise twist at the end to make it all right, then Yellowstone has truly entered its final form. John has joined his firstborn son, Lee (Dave Annable), and all the other Duttons before him in the afterlife, and his children are now left to decide what the future of their land, their brand, and their family name will be. With a lot to do in only six episodes, the rest of Yellowstone Season 5 will no doubt captivate us until those final credits roll.
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