‘Yellowstone’ Season 5 Will Return This Summer
In a recent interview with the Atlantic, Taylor Sheridan, the writer, showrunner, and more-than-occasional directory of Paramount Network’s Yellowstone, explained the core theme of his massive hit series. “This was one of the fundamental things I wanted to look at: When you have a kingdom, and you are the king, is there such a thing as morality? Because anyone trying to take your kingdom and remove you as king is going to replace your morality for theirs. So does morality factor into the defense of the kingdom? And what does that make the king? And at the end of the day, that’s really what the show is about.”
The series opened its fifth season with the king atop the throne; Yellowstone Ranch owner John Dutton is sworn in as Montana’s new governor, the highest position of power yet occupied by the legacy Montana landowner. Morality in office, Sheridan immediately makes clear, will not diverge from morality on the frontier, and Dutton immediately uses his first week to shamelessly defend his kingdom.
Season 5 will likely take Sheridan’s moral relativism and pour it all over state politics like hot gravy—all while continuing to reinforce Sheridan’s somewhat unclear commentary on frontier masculinity. Of course, those are all just fancy abstract nouns; the series really just wants to kick you in the teeth.
And kick us in the teeth the series will do for about two months before its midseason break. While previous seasons have run for about ten episodes, all airing back-to-back over consecutive weeks, Season 5 will be doing something a bit different. The season will be split into two parts, with the first half running eight episodes and concluding in early January 2023, and the second half picking back up in the summer.
Here’s when you’ll be able to watch every episode of Yellowstone Season 5.
When does Yellowstone come back?
After the midseason finale on January 1, Yellowstone will take several months off. Episode 9, the first of the next batch of episodes in Season 5, will premiere this summer. The exact date has not been released. Expect some time in July as the earliest time.
How many episodes are in Yellowstone Season 5?
The first half of season 5 ran for nine weeks with a total of eight episodes. The next half of Yellowstone is expected to also run for eight episodes, although this has not yet been confirmed.
What time do Yellowstone episodes come out?
Each episode of Yellowstone Season 5 will air simultaneously on Paramount Network at 8:00 PM EST and on Paramount Network's app and website.
Here's the complete release schedule for Yellowstone Season 5:
Part 1:
Episode 1: Streaming as of November 13
Episode 2: Streaming as of November 13
Episode 3: Streaming as of November 20
Episode 4: Streaming as of November 27
Episode 5: Streaming as of December 4
Episode 6: Streaming as of December 11
Episode 7: Streaming as of December 18
Episode 8: Streaming as of January 1, 2023
Part 2:
Episode 9: Summer 2023
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