How You Can Watch Yellowstone

What is Yellowstone?

Yellowstone is a TV drama that premiered on Paramount Network in June 2018 and quickly became cable’s second-most-watched series, just behind The Walking Dead. It’s a modern-day Western with familial melodrama and power struggles—think Sons of Anarchy, but with trucks instead of motorcycles.

The story follows John Dutton (Kevin Costner), the sixth-generation owner of the massive Yellowstone/Dutton Ranch, and his constant struggle to fend off land usurpers and keep his dysfunctional family together. They include daughter Beth (Kelly Reilly), and sons Kayce (Luke Grimes) and Jamie (Wes Bentley), all of whom have their own issues, daddy and otherwise.

Yellowstone co-creator and writer Taylor Sheridan (who, coincidentally, played a minor role in Sons of Anarchy) strikes a tight balance between macho, libertarian posturing and quieter, tender moments—hence, Montana-sized popularity with viewers.

It’s not quite the “Shakespeare on the Ranch” epic it thinks it is, but Yellowstone is a pulpy, popcorn action-drama set against gorgeous scenery (it also earns its TVMA rating—Yellowstone isn’t for the kiddies). Yellowstone blew up its own ratings records with its fourth season, and the super-sized season 5 has done the same.

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• How to watch Yellowstone
• Yellowstone prequels 1883, 1923, and 1944
• Yellowstone spinoff 6666

Where you can watch Yellowstone

If you’re new to Yellowstone, you have four seasons, or 40 episodes, to catch up on. You can see some latest-season episodes through the on-demand library of your TV provider (if it carries Paramount Network), but the only way to stream all of them is through Peacock.

Yellowstone seasons 1–4 (2018–2021)

Peacock—not Paramount+, confusingly enough—has all four previous Yellowstone seasons, as well as the first half of season 5, available to stream on-demand.

Peacock plans and pricing

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Yellowstone season 5 (2022–2024)

To watch the current fifth season of Yellowstone, you’ll need a live TV provider that carries Paramount Network—which isn’t difficult, fortunately. Paramount Network can be found on most cable, satellite, and live TV streaming providers (if you’ve ever scrolled past a weekend-long Bar Rescue marathon, you already have Paramount Network).

You can also watch the first eight episodes of Yellowstone‘s fifth season on Peacock.

Best cable providers for Paramount Network and Yellowstone

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Best live TV streaming providers for Paramount Network and Yellowstone

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Yellowstone prequels 1883, 1923, and 1944

Yellowstone is so popular that Paramount+ is producing a series of prequels about the Dutton family from creator/writer Taylor Sheridan. The first, 1883, is a dusty Western that chronicles the Duttons’ trek across the Great Plains in—you guessed it—1883 to establish the original Dutton Ranch in Montana.

It premiered in December 2021, and all 10 episodes of 1883 are available on Paramount+. Despite its ratings success—the first episode was the most-watched debut in Paramount+’s short history—there won’t be a second season of 1883. Instead, showrunner Sheridan followed it up with another chapter in Dutton history, 1923, which premiered on Paramount+ in 2022 and has since been picked up for a second season.

A third Yellowstone prequel, 1944, is currently in development at Paramount+.

Yellowstone spinoff 6666

In Season 4 of Yellowstone, Jimmy (Jefferson White) relocated to West Texas to work at the Four Sixes Ranch, a sprawling spread also known as 6666. Taylor Sheridan’s 6666 spinoff will continue Jimmy’s story on Paramount Network in 2023.

Yellowstone delivers the cowboy goods

If you like heady family drama, lush big-sky scenery, pretty people, and prettier horses, Yellowstone just might be for you. The Dutton clan stirs up the Western glitz of old-school Dallas with the modern grit of Breaking Bad and Sons of Anarchy over a raging campfire, only hinting at a line between the good guys and the bad guys.

Others might find Yellowstone’s near-HBO-level violence and coarse language a bit much, however. Yellowstone pushes the limits of the TVMA parental advisory hard, casually dropping F-bombs like no other basic cable series before it—a “family-friendly” cowboy show, this ain’t.

Either way, you can kill two birds with one stone by watching the previous four-and-a-half seasons of Yellowstone on Peacock.

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