- Television - Drama Shows ## 5 Yellowstone Characters Who Should Have Never Died As successful as "Yellowstone" was, it sure did a great job of courting controversy. For much of its run, fans loved to hate Taylor Sheridan's hugely popular neo-Western, complaining about everything from when exactly "Yellowstone" lost its way to John Dutton's (Kevin Costner) controversial Season 5 death. In fact, the Dutton patriarch's passing was just one of many contentious deaths on a series that delighted in offing characters at the drop of a Cattleman's Crown. In that way, the show mirrored the Dutton…