Taylor Sheridan is currently enjoying the fruits of his labor. After building up his career brick by brick, the prolific multihyphenate now has one of the biggest resumes. His TV shows are key pillars in the Paramount+ library, and he has continued to deliver new ones over the past several years. Sheridan is also successful in the film business with hits like Hell or High Water and Sicario. Still, Sheridan has not been the recognizable name he is despite being nominated for an Oscar at the 2017 Academy Awards. All that changed in the late 2010s when one of his most celebrated works exploded in popularity.
The TV show that made him a household name was not a smash hit right out of the gate, but it slowly built its audience until it became the most-watched cable TV show. The gritty neo-Western was praised by viewers for its writing and slow-burn approach that usually culminated in an epic season finale. It concluded in December 2024 partly because the story had neared its natural conclusion, and the behind-the-scenes drama had become hard to contain. However, a good show is a good show, and the passage of time doesn’t negate that fact.
The series in question is Yellowstone, the Kevin Costner-led drama that has opened major doors to Sheridan. After Yellowstone, he went on to write and create close to a dozen shows for Paramount+, shows that have been successful in their own right. The latest, Dutton Ranch, completed its freshman season a few weeks ago. Now, viewers are still craving that original Yellowstone feel, as shown by FlixPatrol’s ranking for last week, which reveals that Yellowstone has become the number one show on Paramount+ globally, over a year after it aired its series finale. It’s rare for completed stories to achieve this, but Yellowstone‘s endlessly rewatchable storyline and the availability of numerous episodes make it a perfect outlier.
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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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The ‘Yellowstone’ Universe Continues
The show came to an end in 2024 when Costner left, and his character was killed off, so the writers had no option but to end this chapter of the story. However, the remaining characters got their continuation when CBS and Paramount+ ordered new shows focusing on different Dutton siblings. In Marshals, Kayce (Luke Grimes) remains in Montana but shifts gears by joining law enforcement instead of ranching. Meanwhile, in Dutton Ranch, Beth (Kelly Reilly) and her husband Rip (Cole Hauser) move to Texas to start a new life away from the Dutton family mess. Both shows will return for Season 2.
Stream all 53 episodes of Yellowstone on Paramount+ in the U.S. and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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Release Date
2018 – 2024
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Network
Paramount Network
Directors
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Stephen Kay, Taylor Sheridan, Christina Alexandra Voros, Guy Ferland, John Dahl
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