YELLOWSTONE
Nov. 13, 8/7c, Paramount Network
BURNING QUESTIONS
Fifteen million viewers watched the Season 4 finale of TV’s top-rated cable show in January and were thrilled when wild woman Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) finally wed longtime love Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) on her family’s coveted Montana ranch. Because fans also appreciate cocreator Taylor Sheridan’s sense of Western justice, they were equally happy to see Beth blackmail her adoptive brother, lawyer Jamie (Wes Bentley), into shooting his biological dad, who’d ordered a hit on the Duttons. (Beth then snapped pics of Jamie burying the body!) Yellowstone’s producers keep plot info tighter than a cowboy’s jeans, but we speculate on what’s next for the land saga.
Where do we pick up?
“Episode 1 will immediately surprise everybody—where our story starts and what has happened,” teases executive producer David C. Glasser. Could there be a small time-jump? Has patriarch John Dutton’s (Kevin Costner) race for governor been decided? What new ways have he and Beth found to use Jamie?
Will we meet new baddies?
Yes, it sounds like Market Equities CEO Caroline Warner (Jacki Weaver), who vowed to put mole Beth in jail after she sabotaged the firm’s development plans, will have company. Confident corporate shark Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri, who also played
James Dutton’s sister Claire in the drama’s prequel series ) is a new Montana arrival. Perhaps she is who Dutton sibling Kayce (Luke Grimes) was referring to when he said, “I saw the end of us” during his finale vision quest?
