When Will ‘Yellowstone’ Season 5 Return? Part 2 Follows A Short Hiatus
Even before Paramount premiered a “bloody” Yellowstone Season 5 in November, fans knew the Duttons would be coming back with guns blazing. The show’s Season 5 renewal in February 2022 also came with the news that this chapter would include 14 episodes instead of the regular 10 and air in two parts. Officially Yellowstone‘s biggest season to date, the first seven episodes followed everything from John Dutton’s (Kevin Costner) election as Montana’s governor, an unexpected death in Episode 6, and Beth Dutton’s (Kelly Reilly) new business plan for the family’s expansive cattle ranch. But fans won’t want to wait long for Yellowstone to return for Part 2: TV Guide reported that the season will resume with Episode 8 on Jan. 8.
“Season 5 really starts to push the story into a direction where you go, ‘Okay, it’s all about to happen now,’” Luke Grimes, who plays Kayce Dutton, explained in a recent interview with TheWrap, citing his character’s pivotal arc with wife Monica (Kelsey Asbille). “For example, Kayce and Monica who’ve had a really hard time sorting of deciding where they belong in this story are, by the end of this season, really starting to make some decisions. There are a lot of flashbacks where you find out a lot of information about some of the questions that you might have had as far as, what is the brand? What is all this about? Everything starts to get tied together in a way that lets it go somewhere.”
Also, in the midseason finale, Chief Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) receives some vital information from Senator Perry (Wendy Moniz-Grillo). “He’s gonna have a more complicated adversarial challenge within his internal circle, he’s got a shifting and crumbling structure that was built at the end of Season 4 with Market Equities, and then with John becoming Governor he’s entering the political world which is gonna have an effect with everybody that’s after that land,” Birmingham told TheWrap. “And he doesn’t want to be a politician so he’s gonna require reassessment on Rainwater and how he strategizes and doesn’t know what he’s gonna need to do because he doesn’t know what John’s gonna be doing.”
Meanwhile, in the final episode of 2022, Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri) and Jamie Dutton (Wes Bentley) are still scheming to compromise the Dutton patriarchs hold on his land — and maybe even the governorship. “I think the strength of the story is we don’t take our foot off the gas,” Costner shared in a Yellowstone Season 5 featuretteadding, “John has proven time and again that there’s nothing he won’t do to save the ranch.”
As Reilly further teased, “It’s gonna be bloody.”