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THE GREAT YELLOWSTONE expansion continues with Paramount+’s Dutton Ranch, the fifth series in the ever-expansive saga of the Dutton family. In addition to the flagship Yellowstone series (which wrapped up in 2024), this is a world that has included voyages back through time (with 1883 and 1923 ), forays into crime procedurals ( Marshals ), and now takes Rip ( Cole Hauser ) and Beth (Kelly Reilly) to a new ranch in Texas for a thrilling face-off with a couple of Academy Award nominees (in Annette Bening and Ed Harris).

In many ways, Dutton Ranch feels like the truest sequel to Yellowstone to date. Marshals follows Kayce ( Luke Grimes ) as he becomes, well, a Marshal, but that show feels more like a traditional CBS primetime series than something out of the Yellowstone / Taylor Sheridan playbook.…