[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the Yellowstone Season 5 finale, “Life Is a Promise.”]
Yellowstone introduced the story of the Dutton ranch to an in depth within the December 15 Season 5 (and probably sequence) finale, revealing the fates of the Dutton relations and the cowboys on the ranch (get a full recap right here). The household needed to lose the ranch to be able to reserve it, however giving the land again to the indigenous folks of the Damaged Rock Reservation was not like something seen earlier than on TV and introduced the prophecy from 1883 full circle. With the ranch offered, the cowboys needed to transfer on to new beginnings. A few of their endings arrange the likelihood for choose actors to reprise their roles in upcoming spinoffs.
Whereas it’s been a very long time since there’s been any replace concerning the 6666 spinoff, there’s by no means been an announcement that the Texas-set sequence isn’t nonetheless occurring. Bringing Jimmy (Jefferson White) again into Yellowstone this season reminded viewers about his character and gave updates on his life in Texas. Jimmy is now working for Travis (performed by sequence creator Taylor Sheridan) as a horse coach, and Teeter (Jen Landon) snagged herself a job with Travis within the Season 5 finale as effectively. Teeter’s closing scene confirmed her in Texas watching Travis and Jimmy work and studying the ropes. She needed a change of surroundings following the tragic dying of her companion, Colby (Denim Richards).
With such a protracted (and unpopular) concentrate on Travis within the penultimate episode of the season, you could possibly argue that that Travis-focused episode was a backdoor introduction into the Texan spinoff. Regardless that Travis doesn’t work for the 4 Sixes ranch, his enterprise being in Texas — together with Jimmy’s connection to each of those worlds — lays a basis for the sequence set in that state. Bringing Teeter into the fold provides one other layer of familiarity for Yellowstone followers.
Ryan (Ian Bohen), Walker (Ryan Bingham), and Laramie’s (Hassie Harrison) endings are taking them on the street, leaving room for them to look in any Yellowstone future spinoff, even when only for guest-star appearances. Ryan stop cowboying and obtained again along with Abby (nation music star Lainey Wilson), whose music profession was taking off. He’s becoming a member of her on the street as she goes on tour (Sheridan can be making a actuality competitors sequence with Blake Shelton about nation singers happening tour). And Laramie’s going to work on her rodeo profession with boyfriend Walker’s assist (the actors are married in actual life).
As for Lloyd (Forrie J. Smith), he helped Rip (Cole Hauser) get rid of Jamie’s (Wes Bentley) physique and automobile after Beth (Kelly Reilly) killed him. He’s with no job now, however we may see a world the place Smith reprises his function within the Beth and Rip spinoff. Beth and Rip may ask Lloyd to return work on their new ranch in Dillon, Montana given Rip and Lloyd’s shut friendship. And as Kayce (Luke Grimes) mentioned within the finale, one cowboy can wrangle one cow and two cowboys can wrangle two, however three cowboys can transfer a whole herd. Beth and Rip’s adopted son, Carter (Finn Little), can be their third cowboy, ought to Lloyd be part of them in Dillon.
The occasions of the Yellowstone finale additionally make it doable for any of the surviving characters to look within the upcoming spinoff The Madison. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, The Madison shall be set within the current day within the Montana River valley, which is a lower than two-hour drive away from Beth and Rip’s new dwelling in Dillon and Paradise Valley, the place the Yellowstone Dutton ranch is positioned. Kayce, Monica (Kelsey Asbille), and Tate (Brecken Merrill) are actually dwelling within the east camp on their household’s former land, now owned by Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham). All the characters in Montana may now feasibly seem in The Madison. And if Beth and Rip are attempting to modernize the ranching lifestyle and make it a sustainable enterprise, working with fellow close by (sufficient) ranches can be sensible.
Yellowstone could also be over, however the franchise appears removed from achieved. We doubtless haven’t seen the final of those characters.