Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan recently shocked her fans with an unexpected start to the highly anticipated fan favorite Season 5B. In the season premiere of television’s top series, Sheridan took the opportunity to reveal to its viewers that John Dutton, the character played by Kevin Costner, has met a tragic end. This sudden announcement took the viewers by surprise.
Even though most fans knew about Costner’s departure from the show, they still had not expected it to take place so soon. The season premiere sets the stage for intense family dynamics, vengeance, and the struggle for survival as the Dutton legacy hangs in the balance. An Abrupt Goodbye In the fresh episode for the season, when John’s kids, Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Kayce (Luke Grimes), arrive at his governor’s home in the season’s first new episode, they discover police encircling the area.
They discover their father’s lifeless body inside the mansion, near to a gun, which suggests that he may have committed himself. Despite not being in the moment, Costner’s shock and anguish are evident by the look on his children’s faces. The story quickly jumps back six weeks to introduce the audience to the ensemble group, which includes Dawn Olivieri’s character Sarah Atwood, who was last seen as Jamie’s (Wes Bentley) fixer girlfriend.
It turns out that Sarah planned John’s murder under the pretext of suicide in order to upset the Dutton household. At the end of the episode, Rip (Cole Hauser) com.