[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the Yellowstone Season 5 Part 2 premiere.]
The primary episode of Yellowstone since Kevin Costner‘s exit from the hit drama delivered the very best premiere viewers ever for the sequence. Paramount Community has revealed there was a 3 % enhance from the Season 5 Half 1 premiere in November 2022.
Yellowstone Season 5 Half 2 premiered at 8/7c on Paramount Community on Sunday, November 11, and revealed John Dutton’s destiny following Costner’s exit from the sequence earlier this 12 months. Encore airings ran on eight different cable networks that very same night time, together with a ten/9c airing on CBS. All of those airings contribute to the full premiere night time viewership of 16.4 million. The Season 5 Half 1 premiere on November 13, 2022, included seven cable networks, bringing in 15.9 million viewers.
The viewership relies on VideoAmp’s projected Complete Individuals/Reside+SD gross viewership throughout all cable community and CBS airings (premieres + encores): Breakout of premiere + encores by networks obtainable 5 to seven days post-airing based mostly on VideoAmp commonplace reporting.
Costner, notably, was not one of many hundreds of thousands of viewers who tuned in on Sunday, November 10. His character, John Dutton, was killed off within the episode, which wasted no time revealing the patriarch’s demise. John was killed by skilled hitmen employed by Jamie’s (Wes Bentley) girlfriend, Sarah (Daybreak Olivieri). His demise was made to appear like a suicide. Jamie wasn’t conscious of Sarah’s strikes, however she was performing on the concept he floated within the Season 5 Half 1 finale that aired in January 2023.
Costner mentioned in an interview on The Michael Smerconish Program on SiriusXM on Monday, November 11 that he had no thought the premiere was airing on November 10, so he didn’t tune in. He nonetheless hadn’t watched by the point of his interview, however the Oscar winner did verify that he had realized how his character was written off. The suicide plot has made him much less keen to look at the episode quickly.
“Nicely, I’m going to be completely trustworthy. I didn’t understand it was really airing final night time. That’s a swear-to-God second. I swear to God,” Costner mentioned. “I imply, I’ve been seeing adverts with my face in every single place and I’m pondering, ‘Gee, I’m not in that one.’ I’m not on this season. However I’ve been seeing, however I didn’t notice yesterday was the factor.”
“I didn’t see it. I heard it’s a suicide, in order that doesn’t make me wish to rush to go see it,” he added. Host Michael Smerconish mentioned that John doesn’t seem to be a “suicide form of man.” Costner’s response exhibits that he trusts there might be extra to this storyline than meets the attention.
“Nicely, they’re fairly sensible individuals. Perhaps it’s a pink herring,” he mentioned. “Who is aware of? They’re superb. And so they’ll determine that out.”
New episodes of Yellowstone will air on Paramount Community. Subsequent-day streaming shouldn’t be obtainable on streaming companies for this sequence, however followers with a Paramount Community cable login can watch the episodes stay and after they air on ParamountNetwork.com.
Yellowstone, Sundays, 8/7c, Paramount Community