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How many Yellowstone It will loom Marshals? The second episode of the new CBS series starring Luke Grimes gave viewers a good idea of how to do just that Marshals She plans to walk that line.
The sequel, which premiered March 1, sees Grimes reprising his role as Casey Dutton, the surviving son of the late Dutton patriarch played by Kevin Costner on the mega-hit Paramount Network series. Yellowstone It was the most popular show on television when it signed on in December 2024. So, when we recently asked showrunner Spencer Hudnut if he would cater to fans of the series. Yellowstone Or catering to a potential new audience, he had an easy answer.
“It would be really foolish to turn our backs on that,” he said. Hollywood Reporter heading into the premiere, noting not only the huge success of the main show, but also the richness of Dutton’s backstory. He also noted that Casey still lives on the Montana land of the Dutton family ranch — now on the corner he calls home with his son Tate (Breckin Merrill) after the unexpected death of his wife Monica Dutton (played by Kelsey Asbell in Yellowstone). Monica’s death was revealed in the premiere, and this was the tragic hook that convinced Grimes to reprise the role, and convinced co-creator Taylor Sheridan to come on board and executive produce. MarshalsWritten by Hudent.
“The budget work was coming fromYellowstonebut in a way that people who haven’t watched this show can follow along. And then over time, we get to know each other Yellowstone “The more characters, the more they can carry the story,” Hudnot said. “But I think we’ll always have that connective tissue.” Yellowstone. That’s what makes the show unique, so I think we’ll always try to serve that.
Even viewers who have never watched Yellowstone Casey will have caught wind of this week’s second episode at the mention of the “Death Zone,” the real Idaho section of Yellowstone National Park just outside of Wyoming where there are no citizens and no law enforcement, so crimes committed there go unpunished.
“Local legend has it that it was a dumping ground for the most depraved criminals in the area,” Harry (Brett Cullen), the head of the Montana U.S. unit that Kayce dealt with, says in the episode. When Harry then asked Casey if he had heard the tale, given that his family had been in the area for a century, Casey had this to say: “First I hear about it.”
Yellowstone Viewers know this is a lie.
in Yellowstone Specifically, the death zone was called the “train station.” Over the course of the series’ five seasons, the violent Dutton family dumped numerous bodies there and would communicate with each other by saying they had taken someone to the train station. Most notable are Kayce and his sister Beth Dutton – played by Kelly Reilly, who will star in the upcoming film. Dutton Farm Spinoff with Cole Hauser’s Rip – They dumped the body of their brother, Jimmy Dutton (Wes Bentley), into the Death Zone in the series finale, leaving a big Dutton adventure for any series that would continue to follow this Montana family.
And now it comes MarshalsJimmy’s “disappearance” was mentioned several times in the second episode, which aired on Sunday evening. Harry, clearly not a fan of the vengeful Dutton family, presses Pete (Logan Marshall-Green), Casey’s former Navy SEAL friend who brought him in, about what Casey knows about his runaway brother. Fellow agent Andrea (Ash Santos) even questions Casey about the whereabouts of Jimmy, who appears to have just disappeared.
Kayce remains a man of few words when asked, but time will tell how he can continue to dodge the question over the course of the first season’s 13 episodes. “We definitely finished the season in a cliffhanger that paints us into a corner and requires us to come back for a second season,” Hudnut had teased. THRalso saying he was open to a Beth Dutton crossover — should the stars of the spinoffs align.
MarshalsNew episodes release Sundays at 8pm on CBS, and air on Paramount+ the following day.
