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title: "Dutton Ranch"
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imdb_id: "tt34991493"
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fi1m_score: 56
critics_score: 58
critics_reviews: 6
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# Dutton Ranch (2026)

Created by Chad Feehan · MPA TV-MA · Western, Drama

## Identity

Dutton Ranch

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/tv/dutton-ranch
- **Type:** Series
- **Fi1m ID:** dutton-ranch
- **IMDb ID:** tt34991493
- **TMDB ID:** 299167
- **Wikidata ID:** Q136524178
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34991493/, https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/299167, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136524178

**Fi1m score: 56** · Critics 58 from 6 reviews

*In a sentence:* Nine episodes of Kelly Reilly looking for someone worth insulting, and Annette Bening obliging twice

> Kelly Reilly is as ferocious as ever and Annette Bening and Ed Harris give her someone worth fighting. Around them the spin-off ambles, stretching a season’s worth of plot across nine episodes and finding room for a school subplot nobody asked for.

## Synopsis

Montana, after the Yellowstone. Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) and Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) have left the family ranch behind and are starting again on land of their own, with cattle to move, fences to mend and a house still full of boxes. Carter (Finn Little), the boy they took in, is a teenager now and is sent to school whether he likes it or not. Rip needs hands and takes on Joaquin (Juan Pablo Raba), Rob-Will (Jai Courtney), Azul (J.R. Villarreal) and Zachariah (Marc Menchaca), and the bunkhouse fills up with men who do not yet know each other. In the valley around them are Everett McKinney (Ed Harris) and Beulah Jackson (Annette Bening), newcomers to this world with their own ideas about the land, and Beth notices both of them at once.

## Review

*Yellowstone* ended and its audience did not, so here are Beth and Rip again, given a ranch of their own and nine episodes to run it. Chad Feehan’s series keeps the two characters people watched Taylor Sheridan’s original for and drops nearly everything else: the family, the land, the politics, the bodies. What is left is a couple, a boy, a bunkhouse and a lot of cattle. That is a decent idea for a Western. Stretched across nine episodes it turns out to be a thin one, and the season spends much of its length looking for something to be about.

Kelly Reilly is still the reason to watch. Beth Dutton treats every conversation as a fight she intends to win, and Reilly plays her as she always has: whisky voice, stare arriving half a second before the insult, a grin when it lands. The writers, Hilary Bettis and Hayley Tibbenham among them, give her at least one proper speech an episode and she makes each of them sound like something she has just thought of. She is also, for the first time, without her family to fight for, and the series is at its best in the quiet minutes when it notices she does not know what to do with herself. Those minutes are rarer than they should be.

Annette Bening and Ed Harris are the additions that matter. Bening plays Beulah Jackson with Beth’s own composure turned down to a murmur, and the first scene the two women share, across a table, nobody raising her voice, was the one point in the season where we sat forward and stayed there. Harris, as Everett McKinney, gives the series its stillness. He plays a man who has plainly done this work all his life and sees no need to discuss it. He says less in nine episodes than Beth says in one, and we believed every word.

Cole Hauser has less to do than second billing suggests. Rip Wheeler was always a man of few words, but on *Yellowstone* the silence meant loyalty to John Dutton, and here there is nobody to be loyal to but Beth, who does not need it. The scripts have not worked out what he wants beyond a fence that stays up. He hires hands, Joaquin (Juan Pablo Raba), Rob-Will (Jai Courtney), Azul (J.R. Villarreal) and Zachariah (Marc Menchaca), and the bunkhouse scenes are amiable and go nowhere. Carter (Finn Little) is sent to school, and we are asked to go with him. We were bored, in the flat way you are bored in a waiting room, and it happens in every episode.

It looks the part. The directors, Christina Alexandra Voros, Greg Yaitanes, Phil Abraham and Jessica Lowrey, shoot the country the way the parent series did: low sun, long lenses, cattle moving through frost, riders on a ridge with the sky taking two thirds of the frame. Branding, calving and fence work are filmed with close attention and often with more interest than the drama around them. A day’s work on a ranch is a fine thing to watch. It is not a plot, and for long stretches the season has nothing else.

Nine episodes is the problem. There is a good six-part series in here and Feehan’s team have spread it thin, so a grievance raised in the second episode is still being nursed in the seventh, and the business between Beth and Beulah, which ought to be the spine, is rationed as though there were seasons to come. Against *Yellowstone* this is smaller and calmer, which some will welcome; Sheridan’s series was frequently absurd but it was never slow. Against the Western at large it is handsome and forgettable.

It carries a 15. If you watched *Yellowstone* to the end you will watch this, and there is enough of Reilly and Bening to make that a reasonable use of your evenings. If you did not, this is not the place to start; it assumes you already know why Beth is the way she is and does not stop to tell you.

*Fi1m score 56, published 24 September 2026.*

## What the critics say

Most critics take Dutton Ranch as a serviceable continuation of Yellowstone rather than a fresh start: familiar in style, easy enough to watch, and content to trade on what the original built. The praise clusters on the cast. Kelly Reilly is singled out more than once as the reason to keep watching, and several reviews name Annette Bening and Ed Harris as the strongest additions, giving the newcomers more pull than the returning storylines. A few also credit the landscape photography and the attention to the daily work of the ranch.

The reservations gather around the writing. Critics describe the plotting as slow, repetitive and occasionally contrived, find Rip thinly drawn, and pick out Carter’s school-life subplot as a drag. The spread is wide for six reviews: Collider calls it the best Yellowstone spin-off so far, while Radio Times says it falls short of the original’s scale. Four of the six sit in the middle, entertained but unconvinced.

## Straight answers

**Is Dutton Ranch worth watching?**

*Dutton Ranch* is worth watching if you followed *Yellowstone* to the end and want more of Kelly Reilly, and we scored it 56. Reilly, Annette Bening and Ed Harris are the reasons to stay; around them nine episodes carry about six episodes of plot, and a school subplot for Carter slows every hour. Newcomers should start elsewhere.

**How long is Dutton Ranch, and what is it rated?**

*Dutton Ranch* is rated TV-MA by the MPA in the US. It is a western and drama series.

**Where can I watch Dutton Ranch in the US?**

*Dutton Ranch* is streaming on Paramount+, The Roku Channel, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV in the US, and it is also available to buy from Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video. Availability is checked daily; the links above go straight to each service.

**How violent or frightening is Dutton Ranch, and is it suitable for children?**

*Dutton Ranch* carries a UK 15 and a US TV-MA, and is not for children. The series drops most of the bodies of its parent show and is built on cattle work, bunkhouse talk and Beth Dutton's insults rather than gunfire, so the certificate reflects language and adult drama more than fear. Teenagers used to *Yellowstone* will find it calmer than that.

**How does Dutton Ranch compare to Deadwood?**

*Dutton Ranch* is the smaller and gentler series and [*Deadwood*](https://film.one/tv/deadwood) is the better one by a wide margin. Both are slow Westerns that live on insults, but *Deadwood* makes its slowness the point and its speeches the pleasure, while *Dutton Ranch* is slow because its plot is spread thin. Choose *Deadwood* unless you specifically want Beth Dutton again.

### Reviews we read (6)

- **The Hollywood Reporter**, Angie Han (65/100, inferred): Han finds the series entertaining but not yet compelling, with potential that may either build or fizzle. She praises Kelly Reilly’s magnetic performance, while faulting Rip’s thin characterization and some contrived, repetitive plotting. [Read](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/dutton-ranch-review-yellowstone-paramount-plus-1236595302/)
- **Variety**, Alison Herman (65/100, inferred): Herman sees the series as an unoriginal but effective substitute for Yellowstone, making it a success on those terms. She singles out its familiar campy style and focus on the everyday work of ranching, while noting the loss of some of the original’s nuance. [Read](https://variety.com/2026/tv/reviews/dutton-ranch-review-yellowstone-spinoff-beth-rip-1236747742/)
- **IndieWire**, Ben Travers (C): Travers finds the series a sturdy, more straightforward successor to Yellowstone, despite uneven pacing and execution. He praises Annette Bening and Ed Harris for making the newcomers especially compelling. [Read](https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/shows/dutton-ranch-review-yellowstone-sequel-beth-rip-1235193704/)
- **The AV Club**, Ben Rosenstock (45/100, inferred): The critic finds the series a mixed continuation of Yellowstone, with familiar strengths and frustrating sluggishness. Arresting imagery and engaging supporting performances stand out, while the slow plot and Carter’s school-life subplot draw criticism. [Read](https://www.avclub.com/dutton-ranch-review-yellowstone-paramount-plus)
- **Radio Times**, Jack Seale (40/100, inferred): The review says the spin-off falls short of the epic heights of Yellowstone. Its description highlights Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser as its stars, but names no specific element of the series as praise or complaint. [Read](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/dutton-ranch-review/)
- **Collider**, Carly Lane (8/10): The critic calls this the best Yellowstone spin-off yet and a satisfying continuation for Beth and Rip. She praises the leads’ performances and highlights Annette Bening and Ed Harris as excellent additions. [Read](https://collider.com/dutton-ranch-review-yellowstone-paramount-plus-kelly-reilly-cole-hauser/)

## Details

- **Created by:** Chad Feehan
- **Creator:** Chad Feehan
- **Director:** Christina Alexandra Voros, Greg Yaitanes, Phil Abraham, Jessica Lowrey
- **Writer:** Hilary Bettis, Hayley Tibbenham, Jacob Forman, Chad Feehan, K.C. Scott, Todd Scott, J. Todd Scott
- **Cast:** Kelly Reilly as Beth Dutton; Cole Hauser as Rip Wheeler; Finn Little as Carter; Juan Pablo Raba as Joaquin; Jai Courtney as Rob-Will; J.R. Villarreal as Azul; Marc Menchaca as Zachariah; Natalie Alyn Lind as Oreana
- **Certificate (MPA):** TV-MA
- **Release (the US):** 15 May 2026
- **Genres:** Western, Drama
- **Trailer:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6cjKNZBQ1M

## Where to watch in the US

- Paramount+: streaming, hd
- Paramount+: free, hd
- The Roku Channel: add-on, hd
- Amazon Prime Video: add-on, uhd
- Apple TV: add-on, uhd
- Apple TV: buy, hd
- Amazon Prime Video: buy, uhd

*Checked 2026-09-24.*

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## If you liked this

- *Yellowstone* (2018): The parent series, louder and sillier, and with a great deal more happening.
- *Lonesome Dove* (1989): The television Western the others are still measured against, and rightly.
- *The Rider* (2017): Ranch work as it is actually lived, played by people who live it.
- *Deadwood* (2004), Fi1m 91: Filthy, eloquent and slow on purpose, with the best insults on television. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/tv/deadwood.md)
- *Sweet Country* (2017): An Australian Western with the sky doing the work and nobody wasting a word.

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