The Dutton family is back on Paramount Network for Yellowstone’s fifth season following a ten-month break. In 2021–2022, the popular drama surpassed football as the most watched non-football show on cable. Check out this Paramount Network recap to catch up on all the Dutton family drama before the fifth season’s premiere.
Season 4 began with an investigation as the Duttons’ attempt to figure out who tried to kill John, Beth, and Kayce at the end of season 3. In a shocking twist, Jamie’s biological father, Garrett Randall, organized the hit on the Dutton family. Beth learns about this stunning revelation and gives Jamies a choice: kill his biological father or go to prison. Jamie chooses to kill his father, and while disposing of the body, Beth snaps a picture of the act, owning Jamie from here on out.
In Season Four, Beth and Rip tied the knot, Jamie rejoined the family business, and John wrestled with entering the political sphere. “Now I gotta run for fucking governor,” Dutton exhales at the end of Season Four, air barely escaping his gravely mouth.
At the start of season 5, John is sworn in as the Governor of Montana. Season Five will clearly mark a new, legislative chapter for the Duttons. Where they’ve previously solved their problems through violence, insider trading, and a little bit of dynamite, the Dutton’s new office will make finding solutions easier than ever before.
John will continue to manipulate his children to ensure his family remains powerful, as evidenced in the trailer. Meanwhile, Kayce is expecting his second child with his wife, Monica. However, Kayce saw a vision of the end of his relationship with Monica in a tribal ceremony so this thought will loom large over the youngest Dutton.
The evil coastal cities are seeking to tear up the natural beauty of the valley—not unless the Duttons abuse every law in the book. Still, we’ve come to learn that the Montana family’s fight for their particular way of life is less obsolete by modern-day American standards than it is seemingly unprofitable.
