‘Dutton Ranch’ Torches Beth and Rip’s ‘Yellowstone’ Ending in Premiere: “Danger Is Always Going to Follow Them”

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[This story contains major spoilers from the first two episodes of Dutton Ranch.]

It’s been a whirlwind for the Yellowstone franchise, and particularly for Christina Alexandra Voros. Coming out of the mega-hit flagship as one of Taylor Sheridan‘s right-hand directors, Voros has been spending so much time filming Sheridan’s post-Yellowstone series that she and husband Jason Owen, who works on the franchise as animal coordinator, even bought a home in Texas.

“I finally broke down and got a place at Fort Worth. I have not been home-home since April of last year!” she tells The Hollywood Reporter while discussing the newest Yellowstone spinoff, Dutton Ranch. The highly anticipated series brings fan-favorite couple Beth Dutton, played by Kelly Reilly, and Rip Wheeler, played by Cole Hauser, back to television. The first two episodes of the nine-episode season were released Friday on Paramount+.

“We were here [in New York], what, two months ago for The Madison?” says Voros of another Sheridan series, which exists outside of Yellowstone and stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell. “I left here. I finished up [directing] the finale of Dutton Ranch, and then moved onto prepping Frisco King [Sheridan’s Tulsa King spinoff], which we’re in the process of shooting right now.”