As his legendary tenure at Paramount nears its end, Taylor Sheridan isn’t stepping off the gas. In fact, his signature franchise, Yellowstone, has been in aggressive expansion mode ever since the flagship show ended in 2024. Sheridan had already released two critically acclaimed prequels — 1883 and 1923 — but the post-Yellowstone era has been dominated by follow-ups to the Dutton family saga. Initially, it was reported that Sheridan’s The Madison would be set in the same universe. But following news of his departure from Paramount in 2029, it was revealed that The Madison‘s ties to the Yellowstone franchise had never existed. However, it’s a different story for the two other shows Sheridan has delivered since then.
The latest is Dutton Ranch, which is slated to premiere on Paramount+ in just over one week. The show follows the characters of Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser from the flagship series, alongside newcomersAnnette Bening, Ed Harris, and Jai Courtney. Dutton Ranch will premiere on May 15, and it is all but guaranteed to claim the platform’s crown, taking over from its predecessor in the Yellowstone universe. The show preceding Dutton Ranch premiered on March 1 and will conclude its first season later this month. Unlike every other installment of the franchise, this show premiered on CBS and is presented more like a network procedural than a streaming series. Perhaps this is why fans haven’t taken to it as readily as they had with the other titles.
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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
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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
⚖️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.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
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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.
🤠 Yellowstone
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🛢️ 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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The Least-Liked Installment of the ‘Yellowstone’ Franchise Has Been Renewed for a New Season
We’re talking, of course, about Marshals — the show follows Luke Grimes‘ character from the original, Kayce Dutton, as he tackles crime in Montana. The show holds a 42% critics’ score and a worrying 27% audience score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Marshals confines Kayce Dutton within a dim procedural that lacks the narrative spark and intrigue that Yellowstone managed instantly, making this one ham-fisted trek.” In his review, Collider’s Michael John Petty wrote that the show “carves out its own identity from the get-go.” Despite the poor reviews, Marshals has remained among the most-watched series on the global Paramount+ leaderboard for over two months. According to FlixPatrol, it recently passed the 60-day mark on the streamer’s domestic chart.
Marshals has been renewed for a second season, and all fans can do is to hope for it to improve with age. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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