These two universes feel connected in some violent ways.
Though its already been a long and arduousish span of time for Yellowstone fans waiting to see more from the ever expanding Dutton family the highly anticipated fifth season will finally arrive in November and it would not be long after that when the prequel 1923 drops on Paramount+. We now know many of the big names that will populate Paradise Valley and beyond for the spinoff with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren heading up a star studded cast. But Taylor Sheridan & Co. are not done dropping awesome actor updates as it was revealed that Terminator 2 icon and Sons of Anarchy vet Robert Patrick will be mixing it up with the Duttons in the early decades of the 20th century.
More specifically Patrick will be portraying a character named William McDowell who is not only a friend of the Dutton clan but is also the local sheriff according to Deadline. That connection immediately makes a lot of sense given what we know about the way Kevin Costners John Dutton lives and handles himself in Montana. Which is to say that fam has likely always made a point of having friendly faces in high places going back a full century.
Granted it does not always work out for those friends, with Donnie Haskell parting ways with life in a pretty dramatic fashion in Season 4. And Robert Patrick is no stranger to playing characters who meet their timely and untimely demises, so I do not think anyone should necessarily place any life affecting bets on Sheriff McDowell making it to the next election cycle. While Yellowstone itself usually opts to kill off villains as opposed to protagonists the first offshoot prequel 1883 shot an arrow right through that idea. And since Sheridan has spoken about the flagship series likely needing to kill off some of its darlings in Season 5 I am not considering anyone to be truly safe.
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