‘Yellowstone’ Trailer for New Episodes Ushers in Dutton Family Civil War

The Dutton family civil war in Yellowstone breaks out into open warfare in the official trailer for the second half of season five.

“I can’t do this anymore,” anxious cattle rancher’s daughter Beth Dutton, played by Kelly Reilly, says at one point in the trailer. “Well, you’re gonna have to, honey. Or we’re gonna lose this place,” her ranch hand husband Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) warns her as the Paramount Network drama makes its long-awaiting return after the first five episodes of season five ended back in January 2023.

Yellowstone chronicles the Dutton family, which controls the largest contiguous cattle ranch in the United States. Within the embittered Dutton family, shifting alliances, unsolved murders and open wounds spark bitter confrontations, while the Montana ranchers face threats from an expanding town, an Indian reservation and America’s first national park.

“This war is just beginning,” says Kevin Costner, who is not returning after an exit from the Yellowstone ranch as John Dutton, and yet appears in the teaser with a clip to likely wrap his character. In a major cast disruption, Costner left the show after the fifth season hiatus for Yellowstone partly to focus on his Horizon film saga.

Facing off against Beth Dutton is Jamie Dutton, played by Wes Bentley, who follows uneasily in his patriarch father’s steps and warns his sister as he throws down the gauntlet to her: “You destroy me, you destroy yourself.”  

There’s a lot to play for. “Old lions die in the jaws of younger lions. And you are the younger lion,” Dawn Olivieri, who plays fixer Sarah Atwood, Jamie Dutton’s love interest, warns him.

The series from co-creators Taylor Sheridan and John Linson will return Sunday, Nov. 10. The season 5B episodes premiere at 8 p.m. on Paramount Network, with an encore two hours later on CBS.

The season five return of Yellowstone is so secretive that not even the cast knows how it’s all going to play out. The back half of the season came with redacted scripts so the actors would only know their own lines, eliciting real-time reactions in some cases.

Reilly and Hauser — who play Beth and Rip — are now in talks to star in a possible sixth season of Yellowstone, after season 5B had been announced to be the final season.

A possible continuation would be different than the Yellowstone sequel series, The Madison, which will star Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Fox and Patrick J. Adams one of several spinoffs in the universe.

Produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios, Yellowstone is co-created by executive producers Sheridan (Wind River, Hell or High Water and Sicario) and John Linson. Costner remains an executive producer, along with Art Linson, David C. Glasser, Bob Yari, Stephen Kay, Michael Friedman, Voros and Keith Cox. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

Jackie Strause contributed to this story.