During a scene when John’s daughter, Beth (Kelly Reilly), goes out to a bar, the molasses-paced episode even spends a long time lingering on Beth’s drink order. It felt like without Costner, the show was just killing time until it ran out the clock.

After a nearly two-year hiatus and months of speculation surrounding the fate of Kevin Costner and his character John Dutton, Yellowstone returned to Paramount Network only to do fans, Costner, and his beloved character dirty.