‘Yellowstone’ star Ian Bohen hints that Season 5 may not be the end: ‘Not necessarily’

nypost.com:

told The Post that the ending is “Profound, beautiful. Heartbreaking.” According to Paramount, 17 million viewers tuned into the first half of Season 5.Costner, 69, left “Yellowstone” before the second half of Season 5 amid a flurry of rumors about an alleged feud with showrunner Taylor Sheridan.Spoiler alert — in the premiere episode for the second half of Season 5, “Yellowstone” unceremoniously killed John off.

It turned out that John was fatally shot by a hit man, but it was staged as a suicide. Beth and Kayce both didn’t buy the official ruling that it was suicide, and Beth was sure that Jamie did it.

She was mostly right, but Jamie’s culpability was indirect as his love interest, lawyer Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri), orchestrated it, to Jamie’s apparent shock and dismay.

Fans were outraged at how the show wrote off Costner. “John Dutton deserved to go out like a gladiator, not a victim. Completely undoes the series.