by Christos Zabounis

Kevin Costner is dead! With this news begins the second part of the 5th series of “Yellowstone”. It took 48 episodes and six years for him to disappear from the television series. What happened is also known to the stones of Hollywood, since his death was “diplomatic”. What do I mean? Despite the high cachet of $5 million per episode, the two-time Oscar winner for the film “Dances with Wolves”, preferred to invest all his savings in his personal vision codenamed “Horizon”, an epic of the American West, which is spread over 4 films lasting 3 hours. “Horizon 1” premiered at this year’s Film Festival de Cannes, without meeting the audience response expected by its producer, director and protagonist. On the contrary, the streaming platform Paramount, where the first episode without Costner was shown, recorded 16.5 million views, not counting viewers on other subscription networks on the planet, such as Cosmote TV in Greece. The case remains the same, with the descendants of John Dutton III taking it upon themselves to protect his legacy from the aggression of a fund. It is the story of a dynasty of cowboys, who broke through creating the largest ranch in Montana. The scenes of the everyday life of the Hellenistic Greeks are masterpieces, while the two prequels that were filmed in parallel, “1883” and “1923”, are also interesting. At the time of writing, I read that a new prequel, “1944”, is also being prepared. Forever in memory of John Dutton.