Some couples go on vacation, which works for them. Some couples go to therapy, and that can do the trick, too. Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler? Some might say trouble finds them, but let’s be honest, they go looking for trouble, and they tend to find it without much effort. So after years of violence, chaos, and murder up in Montana, they’re taking their talents to Texas instead, and as part of Collider’s Exclusive Preview for Summer 2026, we have a fresh look at the series that makes one thing very clear: these two were never going to settle down quietly.

Collider is excited to exclusively debut a new image from Dutton Ranch, the upcoming Yellowstone sequel series starring Kelly Reilly (Flight) as Beth Dutton and Cole Hauser (Good Will Hunting) as Rip Wheeler. The image shows the pair on horseback, riding through shallow water against a wide-open landscape. It’s peaceful at first glance, but this is Beth and Rip we’re talking about, so that peace is probably about five minutes away from being interrupted by someone making a terrible decision. The official synopsis reads:

“As Beth and Rip fight to build a future together — far from the ghosts of Yellowstone — they collide with brutal new realities and a ruthless rival ranch that will stop at nothing to protect its empire. In South Texas, blood runs deeper, forgiveness is fleeting, and the cost of survival might just be your soul.”

The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.

You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.

You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.

You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.

You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.

In addition to Reilly and Hauser, the cast includes Finn Little (Those Who Wish Me Dead) as Carter, Juan Pablo Raba (Narcos) as Joaquin, Jai Courtney (Suicide Squad) as Rob-Will, J.R. Villarreal (Akeelah and the Bee) as Azul, Marc Menchaca (Ozark) as Zachariah, Natalie Alyn Lind (The Gifted) as Oreana, Ed Harris (The Truman Show) as Everett McKinney, and Annette Bening (American Beauty) as Beulah Jackson.

The series is created by Chad Feehan, based on characters created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson. Feehan also serves as showrunner, while Christina Alexandra Voros directs multiple episodes, including the premiere episodes and the season finale. Voros’ involvement is worth noting, given how much of the later Yellowstone visual language she helped shape, and how central she now seems to be in carrying this world into its next era.

Dutton Ranch premieres May 15 on Paramount+ with two episodes, and also debuts May 15 on Paramount Network at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Stay tuned for more from Collider’s Exclusive Preview for all the hottest titles for Summer 2025.