

It’s a deeply feminist story about girls rising up against the patriarchy and finding strength when they’ve spent their whole lives debased. So if she’s not a normal alaki…then what is she?

Only Deka has a secret - she can command the deathshrieks with her voice. But Deka quickly bonds with the other alaki girls and they end up banding together as bloodsisters, determined to survive whatever the cost. And what are they fighting? Deathshrieks that can explode your eardrums with their screams and tear people in two with their terrible claws. She’s labelled an alaki and the only way to earn favour back to the gods is by serving in the army until she’s deemed pure. The Gilded Ones follows Deka, a seventeen year old Black girl who is forced into an army to serve the emperor after it’s discovered that she is “impure” and her blood runs gold. Yellowstone season 5 part 2 is set for release in November, while the sequel series will be right on its heels in December.I spent the last week reading The Gilded Ones and the sequel, The Merciless Ones, and this is what I thought! Also not nailed down is if McConaughey will actually star in the new series, though Deadline reports that he’s been in talks with Paramount since February and those talks are still in progress. We are thrilled to bring this new journey to audiences around the world,” David Glasser, CEO of 101 Studios (the production studio behind the show), said in a news release.Īccording to a report from Deadline, sequel plans are still in flux, including whether or not the follow-up series will bring back the main cast of the original - minus Costner, of course - and if so, which ones. “The Dutton story continues, picking up where Yellowstone leaves off in another epic tale. Paramount hasn’t announced yet what Yellowstone’s sequel series will actually be about.


This may be a blessing in disguise for Sheridan and Paramount, who can now use the back half of the season to pivot the show toward its finale and set up for the sequel. The second part of the season hasn’t finished filming yet, due in part to a reported feud between Costner and series co-creator Taylor Sheridan. The first half of Yellowstone’s fifth season, dubbed part 1, has already been released, but part 2 is where the series ran into trouble. But nothing can stop the Dutton family’s ranching empire, so Paramount also announced a sequel series with Matthew McConaughey in talks to star. Shortly after reports that Costner had quit the series, Paramount announced that the series will end after its fifth season, the one that would have been Costner’s last. Kevin Costner won’t get the chance to leave Yellowstone because the series is coming to an end instead.
