History Trivia / Yellowstone

* HostilityOnTheSet: While reports of tension between Kevin Costner and Taylor Sheridan go back to the very start of the show, they [[https://www.vox.com/culture/23667960/yellowstone-cast-drama-paleyfest-2023-costner-returning-season-five-release-date burst open]] in season five and turned it into a TroubledProduction. On Costner's end, he brought his famed ego to the production and used the show's success as leverage for considerable demands in both his pay and his schedule, and when he caught COVID during production of season five, he counted his time in quarantine as part of his shoot days and left before all of his scenes were shot. Sheridan, meanwhile, grew [[AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder overburdened working on too many projects at once]] and started [[ScheduleSlip turning in scripts late]], while also [[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11991051/Yellowstone-creator-Taylor-Sheridan-developed-god-complex-created-tension-set-tension.html butting heads]] with Costner over the show's creative direction and allegedly telling him to "stick to acting" in response to his concerns (even though Costner, like Sheridan, was an executive producer on the show). This hostility was presumably part (see AdoredByTheNetwork) of the reason why Season 5 was eventually [[https://www.avclub.com/yellowstone-end-fifth-season-sequel-in-the-works-1850408248 announced to be the show's last]] with a new sequel series following it containing several actors of the original...but not Costner.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Peacock}}, which carries the series' US streaming rights, has made no secret of that fact, not only including it in ads for the service but even tailoring many ads ''specifically'' around their carriage of ''Yellowstone''. This is especially notable given that ''Yellowstone'' is not an Creator/NBCUniversal-owned series; ''Yellowstone'' ended up displacing ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'' as Peacock's flagship piece of licensed content. It reached the point where executives at Creator/ParamountGlobal expressed regret for selling the rights to Peacock, leaving it unavailable for Creator/ParamountPlus, where the spinoff series ''1883'' airs; the FAQ section on Paramount+ even includes an explanation for why ''Yellowstone'' is not available on that platform. It's heavily speculated that the announcement of the new SequelSeries is motivated by having the show continue on Paramount+ while being a sequel InNameOnly.

* HostilityOnTheSet: While reports of tension between Kevin Costner and Taylor Sheridan go back to the very start of the show, they [[https://www.vox.com/culture/23667960/yellowstone-cast-drama-paleyfest-2023-costner-returning-season-five-release-date burst open]] in season five and turned it into a TroubledProduction. On Costner's end, he brought his famed ego to the production and used the show's success as leverage for considerable demands in both his pay and his schedule, and when he caught COVID during production of season five, he counted his time in quarantine as part of his shoot days and left before all of his scenes were shot. Sheridan, meanwhile, grew [[AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder overburdened working on too many projects at once]] and started [[ScheduleSlip turning in scripts late]], while also [[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11991051/Yellowstone-creator-Taylor-Sheridan-developed-god-complex-created-tension-set-tension.html butting heads]] with Costner over the show's creative direction and allegedly telling him to "stick to acting" in response to his concerns (even though Costner, like Sheridan, was an executive producer on the show). This hostility was presumably part (see AdoredByTheNetworkAbove) of the reason why Season 5 was eventually [[https://www.avclub.com/yellowstone-end-fifth-season-sequel-in-the-works-1850408248 announced to be the show's last]] with a new sequel series following it containing several actors of the original...but not Costner.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Peacock}}, which carries the series' US streaming rights, has made no secret of that fact, not only including it in ads for the service but even tailoring many ads ''specifically'' around their carriage of ''Yellowstone''. This is especially notable given that ''Yellowstone'' is not an Creator/NBCUniversal-owned series; ''Yellowstone'' ended up displacing ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'' as Peacock's flagship piece of licensed content. It reached the point where executives at Creator/ParamountGlobal expressed regret for selling the rights to Peacock, leaving it unavailable for Creator/ParamountPlus, where the spinoff series ''1883'' airs; the FAQ section on Paramount+ even includes an explanation for why ''Yellowstone'' is not available on that platform.

* HostilityOnTheSet: While reports of tension between Kevin Costner and Taylor Sheridan go back to the very start of the show, they [[https://www.vox.com/culture/23667960/yellowstone-cast-drama-paleyfest-2023-costner-returning-season-five-release-date burst open]] in season five and turned it into a TroubledProduction. On Costner's end, he brought his famed ego to the production and used the show's success as leverage for considerable demands in both his pay and his schedule, and when he caught COVID during production of season five, he counted his time in quarantine as part of his shoot days and left before all of his scenes were shot. Sheridan, meanwhile, grew [[AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder overburdened working on too many projects at once]] and started [[ScheduleSlip turning in scripts late]], while also [[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11991051/Yellowstone-creator-Taylor-Sheridan-developed-god-complex-created-tension-set-tension.html butting heads]] with Costner over the show's creative direction and allegedly telling him to "stick to acting" in response to his concerns (even though Costner, like Sheridan, was an executive producer on the show). This hostility was presumably part of the reason why Season 5 was eventually [[https://www.avclub.com/yellowstone-end-fifth-season-sequel-in-the-works-1850408248 announced to be the show's last]] with a new sequel series following it containing several actors of the original...but not Costner.

* HostilityOnTheSet: While reports of tension between Kevin Costner and Taylor Sheridan go back to the very start of the show, they [[https://www.vox.com/culture/23667960/yellowstone-cast-drama-paleyfest-2023-costner-returning-season-five-release-date burst open]] in season five and turned it into a TroubledProduction. On Costner's end, he brought his famed ego to the production and used the show's success as leverage for considerable demands in both his pay and his schedule, and when he caught COVID during production of season five, he counted his time in quarantine as part of his shoot days and left before all of his scenes were shot. Sheridan, meanwhile, grew [[AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder overburdened working on too many projects at once]] and started [[ScheduleSlip turning in scripts late]], while also [[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11991051/Yellowstone-creator-Taylor-Sheridan-developed-god-complex-created-tension-set-tension.html butting heads]] with Costner over the show's creative direction and allegedly telling him to "stick to acting" in response to his concerns (even though Costner, like Sheridan, was an executive producer on the show). As of this writing, production on season five remains stalled, with only non-committal promises as to when it will get going again.

* TheCastShowoff: Ryan Bingham, who plays Walker, is also a seasoned singer-songwriter. The show features several sequences where the plot will stop cold so that Walker can perform a song on his signature acoustic guitar, usually for the other members of the bunkhouse.
* TheCastShowoff: DescendedCreator Taylor Sheridan gets a sequence in which his character shows off his [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_(sport) cutting]] skills. Over the next few episodes, we're given ''numerous'' montages of various other characters cutting.

* ProductionPosse: Creator/TaylorSheridan had previously cast Kelsey Chow and Creator/MartinSensmeier in ''Film/WindRiver''. Meanwhile, ''Yellowstone'' makes this Birmingham's third stint working with Sheridan after ''Film/HellOrHighWater'' and ''Film/WindRiver''.

* SleeperHit: The series debuted on the fledgling Paramount Network in 2018, to mixed reviews, and the ratings averaged at 2.24 million viewers for the first season. However, during a time when cable viewership was declining, ''Yellowstone'' was the rare show that saw its ratings ''increase'' with each passing season. In fact, the incredible performance of the 4th season convinced [=ViacomCBS=] to put its plans to retool the network as Paramount Movie Network on hold, even though the rest of their programming at that point had either been cancelled or shifted to another network.

* ProductionPosse: Creator/TaylorSheridan had previously cast Creator/KelseyChow, Creator/GilBirmingham and Creator/MartinSensmeier in ''Film/WindRiver''.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Peacock}}, which carries the series' US streaming rights, has made no secret of that fact, not only including it in ads for the service but even tailoring many ads ''specifically'' around their carriage of ''Yellowstone''. This is especially notable given that ''Yellowstone'' is not an Creator/NBCUniversal-owned series; ''Yellowstone'' ended up displacing ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'' as Peacock's flagship piece of licensed content. It reached the point where executives at Creator/ParamountGlobal expressed regret for selling the rights to Peacock, leaving it unavailable for Creator/ParamountPlus, where the franchise's spinoff ''1883'' airs; the FAQ section on Paramount+ even includes an explanation for why ''Yellowstone'' is not available on that platform.

* ProductionPosse: Creator/TaylorSheridan had previously cast Creator/KelseyChow, Creator/GilBirmingham and Creator/MartinSensmeier in ''Film/WindRiver''.

* ProductionPosse: Taylor Sheridan had previously cast Kelsey Chow, Gil Birmingham and Martin Sensmeier in ''Film/WindRiver''.

* FakeNationality: The fully Native American character of Monica is played by the mixed-race actress Kelsey Chow, who claims to have Eastern Band Cherokee ancestry on her mother's side. However, that tribe does not recognize her as a member because membership requires descent from ancestors who were formally enrolled in the tribe's records. Just having blood descent isn't enough. This caused a lot of controversy and discussion at the time of her casting.

* FakeNationality: The fully Native American character of Monica is played by the mixed race actress Kelsey Chow, who claims to have Eastern Band Cherokee ancestry on her mother's side. However, that tribe does not recognize her as a member because membership requires descent from ancestors who were formally enrolled in the tribe's records. Just having blood descent isn't enough. This caused a lot of controversy and discussion at the time of her casting.

* FakeNationality: The fully Native American character of Monica is played by Chinese-American actress Kelsey Chow, who claims to have Eastern Band Cherokee ancestry on her mother's side. However, that tribe does not recognize her as a member because membership requires descent from ancestors who were formally enrolled in the tribe's records. Just having blood descent isn't enough. This caused a lot of controversy and discussion at the time of her casting.