While John being murdered is much more plausible than John taking his own life, the twist doesn’t do all that much to improve how Sheridan ultimately decided to keep “Yellowstone” running without its lead actor. (Costner, long ago, announced he would not return to the franchise, preferring to make his four-part, 12-hour “film” series, “Horizon: An American Saga.”) Sure, the fact that the eldest Dutton died before he could secure his ranch for future generations isn’t hard to believe. Progress, in the grand, sweeping sense that John used the term, cannot be stopped (let alone reversed, as the most powerful man in Montana aimed to do). But the devil’s in the details, and the details of John’s death are all wrong. How he’s suspected of dying and how he actually died both seem out of line for a character — and a series — that deserved better.
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