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“Yellowstone” Ends for Now: A Sensational Death for a Bad Guy And a Move to Texas

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Jamie Dutton is dead. Wes Bentley’s brilliant villain has been killed thanks to sister Beth. Kelly Reilly now positioned as the marquee star of the next season.

This column told you exclusively that “Yellowstone” would go on. Thanks to all the outlets who failed to give us credit.

But Reilly and Luke Grimes are too good in these roles as sister and brother to let them just drift away.

Bentley made his money and is probably happy to see Jamie to get his just desserts.

Now the remaining characters can morph into a sequel series, maybe called “Yellowstone Redux.” Or “Knots Landing.” But the ranch is sold, and the survivors move to Texas. Maybe they can shoot the new show at Elon Musk’s property.

Reilly wrote on Instagram today:

“Whatever the future holds this is the ending of the show we have been making for the past 7 years.
Words cannot convey how I feel about the people I got to work and create with over the seasons . I have made true life long friends.”

“When people see the ending of this season, there may be an understanding that there is a new beginning, potentially, as well. It could end perfectly where it is, or the new beginning is something that’s intrinsically part of this ending. Both would be beautiful, I have no attachment to either one of them,” Kelly Reilly told Town & Country magazine.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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