For Taylor Sheridan, the idea of a “f***-you car crash” isn’t just lazy writing — it’s personal. “I was killed in a f***-you car crash!” the “Yellowstone” creator exclaimed in the same Hollywood Reporter profile. Indeed, before Sheridan switched to writing and producing full-time, he had a lengthy career as an actor, securing his best-known role on FX’s “Sons of Anarchy.” As noted in THR, when Sheridan quit the series citing inadequate compensation, his character, Deputy Chief David Hale, was unceremoniously run over by a van.
There’s a history of off-screen television beef being settled in a fiery on-screen crash. When Patrick Dempsey left “Grey’s Anatomy” in 2015, his character too died in a car accident. Years later, an excerpt from “How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomy” by Lynette Rice revealed that Dempsey had been ousted due to on-set tensions with some of his co-stars and showrunner Shonda Rhimes. Cue, apparently, the f***-you car crash.
So how will John Dutton make his fated “Yellowstone” exit? This is a man, after all, who has already survived a ruptured ulcer and bullet wounds, so Sheridan will have to get creative. Fans won’t find out until at least 2024, when “Yellowstone” is presumed to return. But with the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, that date could be pushed back even further.
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