Following a very public disagreement between the lead of the show, Kevin Costner, and creator, Taylor Sheridan, over how writing and production on the show was being handled, Costner chose to forgo returning to "Yellowstone,

It's been nearly two years since the finale of Part 1 of Season 5 of "Yellowstone" - the massive Taylor Sheridan-created show's most recent episode - debuted on Paramount Network on New Year's Day 2023.

Costner drama, here’s a rundown of the full story, or at least everything we know about where things stand with the Dutton family’s patriarch. Yellowstone is famously written by one lone man named Taylor Sheridan who will not accept help.