We waited almost two years for Yellowstone to return, and just like that, it’s over. The second half of Season 5 concluded last week with a polarizing episode (“Life Is a Promise”) that featured new beginnings, emotional farewells, and in classic Yellowstone style, a brutal murder.
With this particular iteration of Yellowstone in our rearview mirror, we look to the future. Paramount Network promoted last week’s final episode as the season finale, not the series finale. What exactly does that mean for streamers who can’t get enough of those quarreling cowboys? Here’s the latest on the future of the franchise.
Is Yellowstone On Tonight?
Nope. The season finale aired Sunday, December 15 on Paramount Network.
Paramount Network Schedule For December 22:
It’s a 1923 kinda night on Paramount Network. The first episode of the series airs at 5:35 p.m. ET, followed by Episode 2 at 6:55 p.m. ET. 1923 Episodes 3 and 4 air at 8:00 p.m. ET and 9:22 p.m. ET, respectively.
Is Yellowstone Over?
Yellowstone? Over? Never!
Will there be a ‘Yellowstone’ Season 6?
It’s a simple question, with a not so simple answer.
During a November 2024 interview with The New York Times, Kelly Reilly, who plays Beth in “Yellowstone,” confirmed that an ending for the finale had been filmed.
“We are absolutely ending this show,” she said.
However, there have been reports that she and her costar Cole Hauser, who plays Rip, might continue their “Yellowstone” journeys in a sixth season.
In a November 2024 feature with The Hollywood Reporter, which published about a week after Reilly’s interview with The New York Times, the two “Yellowstone” stars weighed in on whether their characters’ stories could continue after Season 5 in light of reports around a potential sixth season.
“Taylor can figure out how to absolutely continue if he wants to,” Hauser told the outlet. “But that’s just Taylor being a brilliant writer. I’m not telling you that it is continuing, it’s just that he’s smart enough as a writer to do that if that’s something that he is passionate about.”
“It’s up to him,” Reilly said about Sheridan in the same interview.
“We trust him. He’s a master storyteller, and we help him tell these characters’ stories, and it’s been such a ride and so electrifying to play and so invigorating,” she continued. “I trust him. I trust him with wherever he takes her; whether we’re leaving her where we’ve left her, or we’re going to find her somewhere else, I trust him. I really could go either way right now.”
On December 11, Deadline reported that Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser (Beth and Rip) would star in a Yellowstone spinoff series that would “likely feature other cast members from the mothership series.” Additionally, The Madison, a present-day Yellowstone spinoff starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Fox, and Patrick J. Adams, is currently in production.
The second season of the Yellowstone prequel 1923 premieres February 23 on Paramount+, and yet another prequel series, 1944, has been announced.
