‘Yellowstone’ Season 4 Premiere Date, Teaser Trailer Revealed

Things aren’t looking so good for John Dutton in Yellowstone Season 4’s first teaser trailer. The Paramount Network series announced Thursday that the much-anticipated fourth season of its hit show would premiere Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021, giving an ominous sneak peek at what’s to come for the Dutton family patriarch.

In the 30-second teaser, Dutton (Kevin Costner) can be seen in the aftermath of Season 3’s shooting — walking alongside the road when he hears, “You’re John Dutton aren’t ya?” Turning around at his name, Dutton is shot before the camera cuts out, next showing the wounded character slumped against a car. “We’re at war, you and me,” a voice says as the clip ends.

Yellowstone has yet to reveal who it was who tried to end John’s life, but one major fan theory places the blame on a family member trying to take down the ranch owner. Some suspect that Jamie (Wes Bentley) has grown too frustrated with how his efforts to build the family business have not been appreciated by his adopted father, and connecting with birth father Garrett (Will Patton) could have pushed him over the edge. “Yellowstone ain’t a ranch, it’s an empire and empires you take,” Garrett advised him last season.

Others think Garrett himself might have pulled the trigger on the man who replaced him, as he killed Jamie’s birth mother and clearly doesn’t have any qualms about ending a life. Fans won’t truly know until the Nov. 7 premiere, which is just another reason the release date has been haunting fans for months now.

Patton did sign on as a series regular for Season 4, Deadline reported last month, meaning we’ll be seeing much more of Garrett moving forward. Other cast members added for Season 4 include Jacki Weaver, who will play Caroline Warner, the CEO of a company attempting to break John’s grip on his ranch’s acreage. Piper Perabo will play a protester from Portland against the state-funded police force that protects industrialized farming and the killing of animals; Kathryn Kelly will play a vet tech who strikes up a relationship with a Dutton ranch cowboy; and Finn Little will appear as Carter, a youth reminiscent of a young Rip (Cole Hauser) who will learn to be a man on the ranch. Weaver, Perabo and Kelly will be recurring characters and Little has signed on as series regular.