Kevin Costner Responds to Fan Backlash Over His ‘Yellowstone’ Character’s Fate
Yellowstone’s highly anticipated final season has received mixed reviews from viewers.
During the Nov. 24 episode, the real cause of death for Kevin Costner’s John Dutton was revealed as another major charater was killed off, leaving fans both on the edge of their seats and up in arms.
Though John’s death was initially made to look like a suicide during the season five, part two premiere, the Montana rancher actually was killed courtesy of a group of hitmen hired by Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri)—the woman his son Jamie Dutton (Wes Bentley) is currently seeing.
As for how they staged the death, a flashback scene showed John being grabbed by soldiers dressed in black, who inject something into his foot to kill him. When police arrive to the governor’s mansion and find his body, however, the soldiers are gone.
While this is happening, John’s other two kids Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Kayce (Luke Grimes) have gut feelings that something is wrong and later are convinced that Jamie was involved in their father’s death.
And after Kayce met with the medical examiner, he determined that John’s death was not a suicide but rather a homicide.