Yellowstone Chose the Most Shocking, Divisive Way to Send Off Kevin Costner’s John Dutton and Fans Are Pissed

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How widespread TV reveals with passionate fandoms deal with their last season and the fates of their main characters has at all times been a troublesome problem for showrunners and writers. The endings of Game of Thrones, Lost, Dexter, Seinfeld, or, for some, even The Sopranos royally pissed off the very individuals who made these reveals years-long hits. Now it appears we could have so as to add Yellowstone to that checklist though its sequence finale has but to be set. (Yellowstone Season 6 is just not formally greenlit regardless of rumors that it would follow Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser’s characters.)

Yellowstone followers are deeply sad with how creator and showrunner Taylor Sheridan dealt with the departure of Kevin Costner’s patriarch John Dutton in Sunday’s episode “ Desire Is All You Need,” the primary of six episodes in Yellowstone Season 5, Part 2. There was no actual good possibility, thoughts you, and we’ll get to why, however Sheridan’s alternative shocked and angered followers who really feel they’ve been robbed of a correct goodbye to one of many present’s most beloved characters.

Why Is Kevin Costner Not in Yellowstone Season 5, Part 2?

After main the solid for 5 seasons, Kevin Costner didn’t return to Yellowstone because of his dedication to his Western film trilogy Horizon: An American Saga. With Taylor Sheridan juggling a number of TV sequence commitments, the writing of scripts for the second half of Yellowstone’s fifth season stored being delayed (due partially to the labor strikes) to the purpose the place Costner believed he might now not match it into his schedule. Costner insists “I didn’t fairly the present,” telling SiriusXM over the weekend:

“Yeah, I did not actually have to depart something behind. There have been the gaps that have been there. There was contractual issues that will permit for each issues to be achieved, however as a result of each issues have been contractual, you needed to make room for the opposite factor. There was room, nevertheless it was tough for them to maintain their schedule. It appeared to be, it was simply too tough for them to do it. There was the time there, what occurred, you’ll be able to cope with it. But nobody, I did not depart. I did not stop the present. Okay? I had made a contract to do all three. There was a contract in place to do all three. And inside about an eight-month interval, two extra completely different sort of contracts have been being negotiated. Not at my request, however at their request to attempt to do issues. I accommodated them on these additional two issues that modified, issues change, and at last after they wished to alter it a 3rd time, as a result of I had my obligations to do, I had 300 folks ready for me, I could not assist them anymore. I simply merely could not assist them. But I did not stop the present. There was no, there was only a, , all people has to dwell as much as what they are saying they are going to do. And it does not matter what enterprise you are in.”

So it appears it simply wasn’t within the playing cards that Kevin Costner would return to present John Dutton a correct send-off this season.

What Happened to Kevin Costner’s Character John Dutton?

Yellowstone Season 5, Part 2 is barely six episodes lengthy so the season premiere wasted no time in revealing that Montana Governor John Dutton is lifeless. The episode opens with John’s daughter Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) and son Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) arriving on the Dutton Ranch to seek out it swarmed by legislation enforcement. They rush inside to seek out police inspecting the stays of John Dutton in his lavatory. Although we by no means see John’s face, we do see his legs and a gun on the ground. The information media stories that it seems John dedicated suicide on the eve of his impeachment listening to.

But, as viewers know and Beth rightly suspects, John Dutton was not suicidal. As the episode progresses – leaping between weeks earlier than John’s dying and the current – we study that femme fatale lawyer and fixer Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri) had organized for John’s homicide with the corporate dealing with it making it appear like a suicide because the least sophisticated possibility. John’s adopted son Jamie Dutton (Wes Bentley), the state’s Attorney General, is complicit in it though he claims he didn’t really need John lifeless. Well, too late, bub.

As the ending of the primary half of Season 5 established, Beth and Jamie have been already on a collision course the place the dying of 1 or each of them appeared inevitable. John Dutton is the primary sufferer of this endgame between them, however he received’t be the final. Someone’s gonna make a journey to the prepare station for this.

For his half, Costner hasn’t watched the season opener but and is in no “rush” to both. As he told SiriusXM this weekend: “I did not see it. I heard it is a suicide, so that does not make me need to rush to go see it. … Well, they’re fairly good folks. Maybe it is a crimson herring. Who is aware of? They’re excellent. And they will determine that out.”

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