There’s a reason why Dad TV does so well on streamers. It’s because dads were raised on cable and network television, and the new shows attempt to replicate that serialized storytelling format. Some of Prime Video’s most popular shows are Reacherand Bosch, both aimed squarely at older male viewers. These shows typically involve political intrigue and conspiracies, and are usually fronted by determined, idealistic heroes. During the early stages of the streaming era, the format opened its doors to shows centered around women, and one of the most prominent examples of female-led procedurals recently saw a viewership spike eight years after its cancellation.
The show debuted in 2015 on ABC and ended after its third season. It was created by Joshua Safran, who previously worked on Gossip Girl and the cult hit musical Smash, and wanted to take a creative risk with a thriller. Notably, the series in question marked the Hollywood debut of Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who’d go on to work in films such as the Baywatch reboot, the Oscar-nominated drama The White Tiger, and The Matrix Resurrections. She also headlined Prime Video’s big-budget spy series Citadel, which is set to return for a second season.
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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 ABC Procedural Fizzled Out Over the Course of Its Run
But her Hollywood journey began with the show we’re talking about, Quantico. Chopra Jonas starred as Alex Parrish, a graduate of the FBI Academy who, in the first season, becomes a prime suspect in a terror attack. Quantico also featured Jake McLaughlin, Yasmine Al Massri, and Johanna Braddy, among others. Quantico aired two seasons of 22 episodes each and was canceled after a 13-episode third season in 2018. It now holds an overall 70% critics’ score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes; Season 1 peaked at 80%, but the third season has no official score. However, the show’s audience score is languishing at 46%. Nevertheless, Quantico found a spot for itself on the domestic iTunes chart this week, where the leader board was topped by the cult classic Firefly. It outperformed Dark Winds, Frasier, and Charlie’s Angels.
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Release Date
2015 – 2018-00-00
Directors
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Patrick R. Norris, Jennifer Lynch, David McWhirter, Steve Robin, Russell Lee Fine, Constantine Makris, P.J. Pesce, Jim McKay, Kenneth Fink, Stephen Kay, Ron Underwood, Reza Tabrizi, Rachel Morrison, Larry Teng, Gideon Raff, Cherien Dabis, Alex Kalymnios, Thor Freudenthal, Félix Enríquez Alcalá, Hanelle M. Culpepper, James Whitmore Jr., Rob Bowman, Jamie Barber, Peter Leto
Writers
Justin Brenneman, Cameron Litvack, Logan Slakter, Beth Schacter, Jordon Nardino, Gideon Yago, Tom Mularz, Sharbari Z. Ahmed, Adam Armus, Marisha Mukerjee, Cami Delavigne, Michael Seitzman, Cole Maliska, Joe Webb, Gisselle Legere, Dan Pulick
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