“Yellowstone” concluded on Sunday with a series or season finale. No one knows what’s going on.
Sunday’s episode was up slightly from the previous week with 7.3 million viewers.
But Season 5, which began in 2022, and ended Sunday two years later, was down 4.76% from Season 4. In the key age demo, the show was down 14.64%.
The reality is that over time, with no new shows and constant reports of Kevin Costner fighting with the show’s producers, fans lost interest, gave up and went away.
Can “Yellowstone” come back in a new form and attract its old audience? Probably not. The phenomenon is over. But Taylor Sheridan will try again, no doubt, with a new locale and a few of the characters from the original series.
What a shame. “Yellowstone” could have been like the show it mimicked, “Dallas,” which ran for years as characters came and went.
