The latest series in the Yellowstone universe will officially premiere on March 1, 2026, on CBS, following the life of Kayce Dutton (Luke

Grimes) after leaving the Dutton Ranch to become a U.S. marshal in Texas. While we don’t know much about what to expect, Luke shared a full-length trailer of Marshals with fans on Instagram.

 

 

“From the world of Yellowstone, the official trailer for Marshals is here,” the caption read on January 23. “Premieres March 1 on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.”

As fans caught Kayce trying to balance his work life with personal demons, they also noticed something that may change the trajectory of Marshals.

The two-minute trailer seemingly teased the death of Kayce’s wife, Monica Dutton (played by Kelsey Asbille on Yellowstone), leaving many to call out the show for this heartbreaking bombshell.

“Ya’ll took out Monica? Well… time for unhinged Kayce to make a return. And I’m HERE for it,” one person wrote in the comments. “RIP Monica:(,” another wrote on YouTube. “If Monica is dead, I’m out. I’m not watching another Dutton lady die,” a different follower added.

Considering how Kayce has been known for the tough situations he finds himself in with his family, this only has us wondering what state the Duttons will be in when Marshals airs on TV! And as Luke already teased about the show in June 2025, he’s anticipating that fans will feel a certain type of way when they tune in to the spinoff.

“[My first thought] was, ‘Where do you go from there?'” he told People at the time. “We definitely wanted to make sure to give it a real story and make it interesting and make it believable. If it was just like, ‘well, he’s happy’ — we’re just going to watch him be happy? That’s not very cool. But I’ll say this, the idea that was pitched to me is very, very good and very interesting and it really roped me in and I think it will rope the audience in as well.”

Before booking the role of Monica on Yellowstone, Asbille got her start on Disney as Mikayla in Pair of Kings. She also had a recurring role as Gigi on One Tree Hill before scoring the character of Tracy on MTV’s Teen Wolf from 2015 to 2016.

Asbille crossed paths with producer Taylor Sheridan on the set of his film Wind River, which paved the way for her role as Monica Long Dutton on Yellowstone. Over the show’s five seasons, Asbille shared scenes with Grimes — who played her onscreen husband, Kayce — and the rest of the fictional Dutton family.

“I love that when you meet them, they’re both kind of outcasts and they’ve given up so much for each other,” Asbille exclusively told Us Weekly in 2022 about Monica and Kayce. “But Lord have mercy, I would love for them to have an easier go at life.”

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She continued: “I think [Monica’s] strength is her softness and her compassion and her empathy and her willingness to just — no matter what she faces, she keeps her head up and she keeps going. And I think that that’s all you can do. And so I think that’s definitely something I look up to in her.”

Despite Monica still being alive when Yellowstone came to an end in 2024, Asbille doesn’t appear to play a role in Grimes’ Yellowstone spinoff, Marshals. Keep scrolling to see where Asbille has been since Yellowstone came to an end — and what has been said about her possible involvement in the CBS show: