There’s a new Yellowstone spinoff coming, and it puts Kayce Dutton on the front lines

Marshals: A Yellowstone Story is the latest series to spin out of the Yellowstone universe, and it puts one of the show’s most popular characters straight into the middle of Montana’s worst problems. The new series premieres on Monday, March 2, landing exclusively on Paramount+, and it takes Kayce in a direction that feels different enough to be interesting, but familiar enough to keep fans locked in.

Instead of going backwards like 1883 or 1923, Marshals: A Yellowstone Story picks things up after Kayce has left the ranch behind. Luke Grimes returns in the role, with Kayce joining an elite unit of U.S. Marshals and swapping family land battles for federal manhunts. It’s still Montana, still tense, and still very much a Yellowstone world — just with a lot more rules and a lot more danger.

Kayce’s new job sees him combining his background as a cowboy and a former Navy SEAL to track down violent offenders across the state. He’s part of a tight-knit team played by Logan Marshall-Green, Arielle Kebbel, Ash Santos and Tatanka Means, and together they act as the last line of defence when things go bad. Unsurprisingly, the work takes a serious toll, and the show leans into how heavy that kind of responsibility actually is.

And because this is Yellowstone, the personal stuff is just as important as the action. Kayce is still a dad, still tied to his past, and still trying to figure out how much of himself the job is allowed to take. His son Tate returns, along with familiar faces Mo and Thomas Rainwater from the Broken Rock reservation, keeping the emotional links to the original series very much intact.

What makes this spinoff work is that Kayce has always felt like the most conflicted Dutton. He’s never been fully comfortable with the violence around him, even when he’s been good at surviving it. Marshals: A Yellowstone Story puts that tension front and centre, forcing him to decide what justice actually looks like when he’s the one enforcing it.

The end result looks less like a straight continuation of Yellowstone and more like a shift into something tougher and more stripped-back — with high-risk cases, moral grey areas and plenty of pressure on a character fans already care about.

Streaming Monday, March 2 only on Paramount+, Marshals: A Yellowstone Story takes the drama beyond the ranch, and trust us, you’re not going to want to miss it.

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