It's such a simple concept and Taylor has brilliantly built a universe around it.” According to Neilson, season 5A was the most-watched scripted series on television, averaging 11.6 million viewers each week.

The series finale of “Yellowstone” is just two months away and the cast is now teasing the finale of the hit show. Actor Kelly Reilly who plays Beth Dutton says she’s known how the show would end since Season One and that it was always supposed to be a five-season arc.

Costner played the role of family patriarch John Dutton from the start but didn’t sign on for the final six episodes of “Yellowstone” owing to scheduling conflicts with his “Horizon: An American Saga” films. Nonetheless, the cast and one of the show’s producers have said his absence won’t dim the finale’s shine.

A new rumor surrounding the Yellowstone cast suggests that not everything is going smoothly after Kevin Costner’s exit.

For five drama-fueled seasons, Yellowstone has followed the Dutton family — patriarch John ( Kevin Costner ), Jamie (Wes Bentley), Beth ( Kelly Reilly) and Kayce (Grimes) — and their conflicts revolving around the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch. The show premiered in June 2018, with the first half of season 5 wrapping up in January 2023.

Despite the rumors that Yellowstone could continue on Paramount Network after Season 5 finishes airing this fall, actors Kelly Reilly and Luke Grimes insist they’re sticking to Taylor Sheridan‘s plan for the series finale.