If we’re being honest, as much as we like Kayce Dutton and his team of Marshals on CBS, the series has always felt like Luke Grimes was dropped into a procedural and just happened to be a guy who’s previously existed on another TV series. We yearned for the open fields and the lingering shots of Yellowstone, from where he had been transplanted. And then, last week, Dutton Ranch arrived and with it, we got what we wanted once more.
Following its debut last week, Dutton Ranch has immediately become the most watched series on Paramount+, as audiences flock to watch the return of Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler, along with their ward (and not some boy they just randomly stole from outside a hospital), Carter. The first season will run for nine episodes, with new episodes rolling out every Friday after the two-part premiere. The official synopsis reads:
“As Beth and Rip fight to build a future together — far from the ghosts of Yellowstone — they collide with brutal new realities and a ruthless rival ranch that will stop at nothing to protect its empire. In South Texas, blood runs deeper, forgiveness is fleeting, and the cost of survival might just be your soul.”
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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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Who’s Involved in ‘Dutton Ranch’?
Dutton Ranch stars Kelly Reilly (Flight, Pride & Prejudice) as Beth Dutton, Cole Hauser (Good Will Hunting, 2 Fast 2 Furious) as Rip Wheeler, Finn Little (Those Who Wish Me Dead, Storm Boy) as Carter, Ed Harris (Top Gun: Maverick, Apollo 13) as Everett McKinney, Annette Bening (American Beauty, Nyad) as Beulah Jackson, Jai Courtney (Suicide Squad, Terminator Genisys) as Rob-Will McKinney, Juan Pablo Raba (Peppermint, Narcos) as Silas Vela, Marc Menchaca (Ozark, The Creator) as Zachariah, Natalie Alyn Lind (The Goldbergs, Big Sky) as Tess McKinney, and J.R. Villarreal (Akeelah and the Bee, Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion) as Luis.
The series is created by Chad Feehan, based on characters created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson. Feehan also serves as showrunner, while Christina Alexandra Voros directs multiple episodes, including the premiere and finale. Voros is a veteran of Sheridan’s shows, having directed all six episodes of The Madison, which was initially announced as another Yellowstone spin-off before it was later revealed as a standalone project ahead of its next two seasons. Voros also served as a director on Yellowstone.
Dutton Ranch airs on Friday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Paramount Network and streams on Paramount+.
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Release Date
May 15, 2026
Network
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Paramount Network, Paramount+
Showrunner
Chad Feehan
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Directors
Christina Alexandra Voros
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Writers
Jacob Forman, Hilary Bettis, Chad Feehan, Hayley Tibbenham, J. Todd Scott, K.C. Scott
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