Yellowstone Season 5 series finale reveals Dutton Ranchs fate and ends with a major death

“Yellowstone” went to the train station. After five seasons, the hit cowboy drama “Yellowstone” ended on Sunday night – well, probably. Season 5 was supposedly the final season.However, on Wednesday, it was reported that stars Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser have closed deals to lead a spinoff show about their characters, husband and wife Beth and Rip. In August, multiple outlets also reported that there’s a Season 6 in the works, but Paramount never announced or confirmed that. The Beth and Rip show will reportedly be a separate spinoff series, not a sixth season of the main show. “Yellowstone” star Ian Bohen coyly told The Post that “it’s not necessarily” the end.

Nevertheless, this is the apparent series finale.Going into the super-sized episode, the main loose ends that needed to be tied up included the question of what will happen to the ranch, whether Beth will kill Jamie, and whether John Dutton will finally be laid to rest. All of those questions got answered.

Series stars Wes Bentley and Luke Grimes told The Post that the ending would be “heartbreaking.” Were they right? Spoilers ahead for the “Yellowstone” Season 5 finale, “Life Is a Promise.” Created by Taylor Sheridan, “Yellowstone” is about the Dutton family, owners of the largest ranch in Montana.It centers on patriarch John (Kevin Costner), who was also the governor before his death, and his adult children Kayce (Luke Grimes), Jamie (Wes Bentley), Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Beth’s husband, Rip (Cole Hauser).Costner left after the first half of Season 5, amid rumors of a feud with Sheridan.

The show dealt with his absence by killing John off, in a hit man attack that was initially staged to look like a suicide – but, now everyone knows it was a murder. Jamie, who is the Attorney General of Montana, was partly culpable in his father’s murder, even though he wasn’t directly involved.In the finale, Kayce sells the ranch to Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingh...