Yellowstone (2018)
Yellowstone is a 2018 western series created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson. It stars Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes and Kelly Reilly.
The Duttons own the largest ranch in Montana, and they will bury anyone who comes for it. John Dutton, played by Kevin Costner, rules the land like a king holding a shrinking border, pressed on all sides by developers, the neighboring Broken Rock reservation and the National Park. His grown children circle the throne carrying their own wounds and ambitions. Created by Taylor Sheridan, this neo-Western trades the frontier myth for boardrooms, brands and cold Montana light, then lets the violence arrive anyway. Sweeping landscape, blunt power politics and a family that loves about as hard as it fights.
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What is Yellowstone about?
The Duttons own the largest ranch in Montana, and they will bury anyone who comes for it. John Dutton, played by Kevin Costner, rules the land like a king holding a shrinking border, pressed on all sides by developers, the neighboring Broken Rock reservation and the National Park. His grown children circle the throne carrying their own wounds and ambitions. Created by Taylor Sheridan, this neo-Western trades the frontier myth for boardrooms, brands and cold Montana light, then lets the violence arrive anyway. Sweeping landscape, blunt power politics and a family that loves about as hard as it fights.
When was Yellowstone released?
Yellowstone was released on 20 June 2018.
How many episodes does Yellowstone have?
Yellowstone has 53 episodes across 5 seasons.
Who made Yellowstone?
Yellowstone was created by Taylor Sheridan, John Linson and Brian Tyler.
Where can I watch Yellowstone?
Yellowstone is available on DirecTV On Demand, Peacock, Peacock Premium, Philo, YouTube TV and fuboTV.
Where to watch Yellowstone
Stream: DirecTV On Demand, Peacock, Peacock Premium, Philo, YouTube TV, fuboTV
Buy: Amazon, Fandango at Home
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Cast
- Kevin Costner as John Dutton
- Luke Grimes as Kayce Dutton
- Kelly Reilly as Beth Dutton
- Wes Bentley as Jamie Dutton
- Cole Hauser as Rip Wheeler
- Kelsey Asbille as Monica Dutton
- Brecken Merrill as Tate Dutton
- Gil Birmingham as Thomas Rainwater
- Ian Bohen as Ryan
- Forrie J. Smith as Lloyd
- Denim Richards as Colby
- Mo Brings Plenty as Mo Brings Plenty
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A few thoughts on Yellowstone
Fans should watch Hell or High Water, Taylor Sheridan's film of desperate men and Texas land that shares this world's ache over who owns the ground. Larry McMurtry's novel Lonesome Dove is the great cattle-drive epic the Duttons descend from. For the same wide, dangerous frontier rendered in dusk and gunsmoke, the game Red Dead Redemption 2 is the natural companion.
Land worth killing for, defended generation after generation
Yellowstone's Duttons hold their Montana ranch by force, since everyone nearby wants a piece of it, and these tell the same standoff on other frontiers. Red Dead Redemption 2 and Lonesome Dove ride through a West closing in on itself, Outer Range and Ransom Canyon pit a modern ranching family against forces trying to take their land, and Faraway Downs stakes an entire cattle station on one family's stubborn hold.
Family empires where power always comes with blood
The Duttons treat Montana like a family business where loyalty and violence are the same currency. Dallas runs on oil money and betrayal inside one family, Bonanza puts a father and three sons in charge of a whole territory, How the West Was Won carries that fight across generations, and Animal Kingdom and Breaking Bad turn family loyalty into a blood price.
Modern lawmen working the same unforgiving West
Outside the Dutton ranch, Yellowstone is also a show about men enforcing rough justice in a modern West that still runs on old rules, and these live in that same territory. Justified follows a Kentucky marshal who solves problems his own way, Longmire and Joe Pickett work Wyoming counties where the law and the land are tangled together, and Big Sky finds the same brutal edges in modern Montana.
Prestige Westerns that don't romanticize the frontier
Yellowstone refuses to make the West look clean, and these prestige Westerns share that same grime. Deadwood's frontier town runs on greed long before law arrives, Godless and The English strip the genre of its old comforts, American Primeval turns 1850s survival into something closer to horror, Lonesome Dove's 1989 cattle drive earns every mile of dust, and Billy the Kid follows an outlaw the myths never agree on.