After over a year hiatus, Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2 will land in November later this year.
Four and a half seasons of the Taylor Sheridan series have followed the Dutton Family, led by patriarch Kevin Costner’s John Dutton, who oversees the largest cattle ranch in the modern-day United States. The Dutton family faces constant challenges from those at its borders — the growing Bozeman, Montana, the fictional Indian reservation of Broken Rock and America’s first national park.
With several prequel series and a contemporary spinoff in the works, the original installment was originally set to conclude at the end of 2023, but the WGA and SAG strikes delayed production on the final episodes.
Read on for what we know about Yellowstone Season 5 Part II:
When will Yellowstone Season 5 Part II come out?
The final episodes are slated to unfold on the Paramount Network starting November 10, 2024 at 8 p.m. Internationally, Yellowstone will premiere on Paramount+ in Canada on November 10th, the U.K. on November 11th and in Latin America, Brazil and France later in November.
Has Yellowstone Season 5 Part II begun production?
The Paramount Network announced in May that the second half of the final installment began production in Montana.
Paramount released first-look photos for the second half of Season 5 at the end of August 2024.
How many episodes will be in Yellowstone Season 5 Part II?
Six episodes are projected to wrap up the original installment, but creator Taylor Sheridan told The Hollywood Reporter that he felt Paramount could give him 10 episodes if need be.
Is there a trailer for Yellowstone Season 5 Part II?
Yes, a trailer arrived at the end of August 2024:
Now we’re only about a month away from the show’s return, and the folks over at Paramount know it. That’s why they sent out the first teaser for the show in quite some time, and fair warning: IT’S ELECTRIC.
Check it out:
Hmm… sure seems like there’s a lot of Kevin Costner in that teaser for a show that’s said the man behind the titular character isn’t returning for the show’s final episodes. Then again, how could you not show a little of Costner – HE’S JOHN DUTTON.
Many in the comments have pointed out that they’d rather have an actual trailer than another teaser filled with recycled old clips from previous moments of the hit show. But hey… beggars can’t be choosers right? At least we are getting something as we inch closer and closer to the return of Yellowstone.
And boy oh boy… the “Generations of blood have led to this” tag line is badass… doesn’t sound good for Jamie, does it?
Will this be the last season of Yellowstone?
Up until the end of August 2024, Season 5B of the western drama series was thought to be the last, but there is a chance for a Season 6 with certain characters continuing on.
How many Yellowstone prequels are there?
The show has two prequels available to watch — 1883 and 1923.
1923, which stars Harrison Ford as John Dutton and Helen Mirren as Cara Dutton as they navigate the early 20th century west in the era of Prohibition, pandemics and drought. The prequel was renewed for a second season, but the strikes in the summer of 2023 delayed production.
Sheridan hinted at two seasons to tell the complete story, and that likely means eight more episodes.
The series also stars Brandon Sklenar, Darren Mann, Michelle Randolph, James Badge Dale, Marley Shelton, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, Jerome Flynn and Julia Schlaepfer.
1883 stars Sam Elliott as Shea Brennan, Tim McGraw as James Dutton, Faith Hill as Margaret Dutton, Isabel May as Elsa Dutton who narrates, LaMonica Garrett as Thomas, Marc Rissmann as Josef, Audie Rick as John Dutton Sr. and more.
This series follows the Dutton ancestors’ journey west through the Great Plains toward unclaimed frontiers. Sheridan had that full series blocked out in his head in one season, plus the ending of the season doesn’t really leave room for another one as Sam Elliott’s character dies by suicide.
“The story I heard is Bob Bakish watched it and said, ‘Wait a minute, she dies! They all die? What do we do in season two?’” Sheridan told Deadline. “I said, there is no season two. They’re like, there better be a fu*king season two because we already picked it up. I’m sitting here going, ‘Guys everyone is dead.”
Will there be more Yellowstone spinoffs?
Sequel spinoff 2024 will carry on the contemporary timeline of the franchise. In February 2023, Deadline exclusively reported the news that Matthew McConaughey was in talks to star in the latest installment of the Dutton saga.
