Taylor Sheridan spoke about his dislike for the storytelling in Marvel movies.Sara De Boer/startraksphoto.com
Few writers and producers have been as busy this year as Taylor Sheridan, but that doesn’t come as much of a surprise considering he’s balancing so many projects. Not only is Sheridan continuing to expand the Yellowstone universe with spin-offs like Marshals and Dutton Ranch, but he’s also working on seasons of new shows like Tulsa King and Landman. Sheridan is also getting back into the screenwriting business with some of his new projects, including his new Sicario-style action thriller, F.A.S.T., and his Call of Duty movie with director Peter Berg. Sheridan has developed an almost unprecedented audience in recent years, and although he’s leaving Paramount in favor of NBCUniversal in a few years, meaning his shows will soon stream on Peacock, it’s expected that most of his fans will have no trouble making the move to a different platform.
While Yellowstone or Tulsa King may be the first show that comes to mind when you think of Taylor Sheridan, he has written and produced other iconic Westerns over the years that you may not realize he was attached to. One of such stories is Lawmen: Bass Reeves, which was written and created for TV by Chad Feehan but produced by Taylor Sheridan, who also gave insight into the story and creative direction. Sheridan and Feehan reunited earlier this year for the first season of Dutton Ranch, but Feehan has since been dismissed as the showrunner for Season 2, with Benjamin Cavell taking over showrunning duties for Season 2. Three years after Lawmen: Bass Reeves began streaming on Paramount Plus, the show has returned to the streaming top 10 as fans wait for the next Sheridan-produced show to hit streaming.
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
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⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
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Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
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🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
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You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
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You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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What Is ‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves’ About?
The official synopsis for Lawmen: Bass Reeves, which earned scores of 79% from critics and 91% from audiences on the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows: “Lawmen: Bass Reeves follows the legendary lawman Bass Reeves, one of the greatest frontier heroes and one of the first Black deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River.” Fans have asked questions for years about a potential second season of Lawmen: Bass Reeves, but Paramount and Sheridan have confirmed at every turn that the show is a limited series that was only ever designed for one season. The cleanest way to pitch Lawmen: Bass Reeves to someone who hasn’t seen it is that it’s like if you put Bosch and Yellowstone in a blender. The show is the perfect mash-up of a sweeping Western epic and a detective thriller.
Check out all episodes of Lawmen: Bass Reeves on Paramount Plus and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Taylor Sheridan’s future projects.
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