Kevin Costner has left “Yellowstone,” and some viewers are not happy about it. The actor, who played the patriarch John Dutton on the hit series, addressed some backlash over his character’s exit. “Fans have a voice in things and they choose to follow stuff,” Costner told E! over the weekend.

During a scene when John’s daughter, Beth (Kelly Reilly), goes out to a bar, the molasses-paced episode even spends a long time lingering on Beth’s drink order. It felt like without Costner, the show was just killing time until it ran out the clock.

"I think even in the face of that information, people don’t want it to be true," Christina Voros said in a new interview.

Yellowstone fans are insisting that John Dutton, played by Kevin Costner, is still alive and there is even proof it could be true.

Kevin Costner isn’t shaking in his boots about the backlash over his “Yellowstone” character being killed off. The 69-year-old actor played John Dutton on the Paramount Network show, last appearing in part one of Season 5 in 2022.

Viewers of the hit show Yellowstone were left with several questions over confusing time jumps in the latest episode. The abrupt transitions, particularly involving Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) and Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly),

As Monsters and Critics have reported, fans desperately want John to remain alive and have even concocted scenarios in which he could still return. A Yellowstone star, Luke Grimes

Kevin Costner continues to be surprisingly active around "Yellowstone" despite the fact that the show's season 5, part 2 confirms John Dutton's death. The Paramount Network series' longtime star has already reacted to John's "Yellowstone" fate by wondering why his face is all over the advertising for a batch of episodes he's not actually in.