Summer Streamin' 24 - Yellowstone - Season Five/Series Final

Yellowstone has bowed out for the final time. The last rodeo streamed this evening. Most likely airing to record number in the US on the Paramount Network. In Australia, all five series now stream all 53 episodes now on Stan.

This very well could be one of Stan's biggest ever series. Now it has concluded the same month, Bump will end its five season run.

Recently it was Ryan Murphy season, now we are well and truly in Taylor Sheridan season.

With season five (like many US series) impacted by the writers strike, the first part of the season premiered back in November, 2022, while the second part premiered last month. Yes that is a long ass weight for six episodes. However the finale was almost two episodes.

Season five starred Kevin Costner (part one only), Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley, Cole Hauser, Kelsey Asbille, and Gil Birmingham. 

Across the five seasons (which I was late to the party) Yellowstone, followed the conflicts along the shared borders of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch, a large cattle ranch, the Broken Rock Indian reservation, Yellowstone National Park, and land developers.

Apparently along with two upcoming spinoffs (6666 & 1944), the mothership series will be followed by a sequel series titled The Madison.

We have already seen prequel series 1883, the the second prequel series titled 1923, which will return for its second and final run next February.

So how did it all end? Read on below, however some spoilers may appear. You have been warned!

The finale is titled, Life Is a Promise, with more time showcasing Texas, 6666 the series must not be far off now!

With several characters teasing their futures in the next series, Jimmy might be joined by Teeter, all working under Travis.

When we get to see Beth, she explains to Rip, they are on the move. To a property two hours from the proposed site of the airport. 

ThenBeth gets the call from the funeral home. John Dutton was ready to be buried. Rip gets ready to dig aa grave.

Kayce and Monica get ready to sell the land back to Rainwater at the same cheap price for which it was bought an eternity ago. 

All Kayce asked was to keep his home at the East Camp and that Broken Rock never unload the property.

When John is finally laid to rest, after five episodes of him being discovered to have "killed himself" at the top of the second half of the season.

The funeral ends quickly, with Beth whispering to the coffin “I will avenge you.” 

Poor Rip was left filling in John’s grave. Once he returned to the house, Beth was gone. Jamie was largely absent for a chunk of the episode, then at the Capitol, Jamie gave the performance of his life to try to clear his name.

Rip sped away after Beth left, realising she had revenge on the mind. Rip called Beth and ordered her to pull over to the side of the road. She had a plan, though, she insisted, and her husband was a big part of it, so he’d better put the pedal to the metal.

Once Jamie got home, Beth brutally attacked him and hit him with bear spray. This brother, sister fight was the moment of the finale. It was brutal and raw. Rough and intense.

Rip arrived in the knick of time, following the brutal sibling fight. Beth then plunged a knife deep into Jamie’s stomach. Rip then knew where to get rid of the body, while Beth dialled 9-1-1, to frame Jamie.

Rainwater and Kayce signed their agreement, the chief assured John’s son that the Yellowstone would never change. 

A large amount of the episode was around how Yellowstone would be maintained.

As the almost hour and a half episode drew to a close, Rip and Lloyd disposed of Jamie’s body at the train station, and then set fire to Jamie’s car, in Idaho, no less. 

At the hospital, Beth seemed happy her scheme was all seemingly going to plan

Then we went back to 6666 territory, Texas, where Teeter reported for work with Travis. Ryan, sought out Abby in hopes of getting the happy ending, at a country music fest!

Fianlly, Beth, Kayce and Rip did a last walk-through of the barn and the main house. Finally a voiceover took over (maybe Elsa from 1883?) spoke of the high price paid by those who chose to be stewards of wild land. 

Kayce, Monica and Tate began their new life herding their own cattle. And at their new ranch, Beth and Rip seemed happier than maybe we’d ever seen them. The town even had a bar with no tourists. It's almost like Beth hated people from blue states?

It all ended and after those 53 episodes, one of TV's biggest series has ended. However with 1923 returning soon, 6666 being pushed this entire run, Yellowstone will remain on the small screen one way or another with the Dutton's family legacy living on.