With “Life Is a Promise,” that’s about exactly what happened.

This was the common plot throughout the series' five-season run.

While it looked different depending on the season, each new season felt eerily similar to the last.

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No longer in control of his family legacy or destiny, John could not control how things were run.

The Old West may be over, but what was once tamed is becoming wild again.

Here is where Taylor Sheridan ought to be given some extra credit.

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It only sticks the landing because that landing was so well-prepared for.

Yes,1883can stand entirely on its own, but its place as “aYellowstoneorigin story” cannot be denied.

The series finale airs on Sunday, December 15.

John Dutton (Kevin Costner) and Chief Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) on ‘Yellowstone’

Here in the show’s super-sized Season 5 finale, we get a glimpse back at Lee’s grave.

The way it’s framed,it’s almost like his ancestors began to live through him.

“Nowhere was that promise written.

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A ranching family in Montana faces off against others encroaching on their land.

It faded with my father’s death but somehow lived in the spirit of this place.”

But that was never how this story was going to end.

Yellowstone(Seasons 1-5A) is available for streaming on Peacock.

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