Overview
- Paramount+ released the full trailer Tuesday, showing Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler starting over in South Texas and running into trouble in the town of Rio Paloma.
- Annette Bening debuts as rival ranch boss Beulah Jackson and Ed Harris appears as veterinarian Everett McKinney, with scenes of fires, bar fights, gunfire and Rip discovering a corpse.
- The footage nods to Yellowstone’s “train station” code for disposing of enemies, signaling the franchise’s darker motifs will carry into the new setting.
- The series launches with two episodes on Friday, May 15 on Paramount+ and airs Fridays on Paramount Network, then rolls out weekly across a nine‑episode first season.
- Chad Feehan is credited as creator and Season 1 showrunner, though multiple outlets report he will not return for a potential Season 2, while Taylor Sheridan and John Linson remain executive producers alongside directors led by Christina Alexandra Voros.