While the hiatuses before Yellowstone’s second and third seasons were clearly long and took much patience to get through, the wait for Yellowstone Season 4 appears intentionally designed to be as arduous and drawn out as you can. Paramount Network has yet to release one iota of official info about the upcoming season and additionally hasn’t shared any trailers, teasers, or first-look images. But amidst this Yellowstone drought, star Cole Hauser might have unintentionally given fans expect for Rip and Kelly Reilly’s Beth to have a future beyond the possibly deadly explosion in Beth’s office.
Take this all with a grain of salt, or perhaps an entire salt lick, but while participating in an Emmy consideration interview for Deadline, Cole Hauser has been requested to discuss his personality Rip’s complicated affair with, and long-held affection for, Kelly Reilly’s Beth. And when answering, Hauser’s particular wording apparently tilted a hat into the concept that Beth not only survived the assassination attempt on her life but that her Rip’s relationship also lived. Here is how he put it:
As far as Rip’s worried, that was his first and his only love from when he was 15 years old. I believe time stopped for him and he understood how special she was and how she could give to his life, and teach him things he wants to go through as far as being a young man. And also, the fact he has dropped her a lot as well over time. I love what Taylor did in the beginning. He kinda made it a slow burn for us, and it has taken four decades now for us to really investigate their relationship, and that they are as people, and how their hearts beat. And it’s been a pleasure, of course, to do this with Kelly.
Obviously, Cole Hauser didn’t come right out and say, “Hey, Beth is still living, y’all!” He is not foolhardy about details. But he did make the curious decision to say it’s taken”four years now” to get Rip and Beth to reach something of an emotional apex with their relationship. Audiences have only seen them together for three seasons now, of course, so it would appear he’s also referring to Season 4, right?
On the flip side, it’s also easy to suppose that Cole Hauser may have only been speaking to how long they have been working together behind the scenes. But, Yellowstone began its creation in 2017, which could make it five decades now that they have been co-stars. It’s certainly possible he just wasn’t counting 2021 in that whatsoever for one reason or another, but it is obviously hard to know for sure.
The Occam’s Razor alternative for this is that Cole Hauser was talking generally and did not actually spoil anything about Season 4, unintentionally or otherwise. But it curious. In addition, it readily matches up with expectations which Yellowstone wouldn’t possibly kill off one of its most well-known characters in this crazy way. Therefore, even though Hauser is not the person who spilled the beans, then I hope the result is exactly the same. I’m pretty sure not even a natural catastrophe would attempt to hurt Beth on goal, so I’m fully expecting for her to be living and raging out on anyone and everyone, with Rip right there alongside her.
Yellowstone Season 4 will make its own way to Paramount Network and its rabid fanbase at a certain stage this summer, so stay tuned for the trailer along with a release date coming soon. As if we did not already have the time to speculate about with both the prequel spinoff and that the Texas-set spinoff.
