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‘Yellowstone’ Fans Officially Turn Netflix’s 3-Part YA Series Into a Streaming Hit

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It’s already been over a month since one of the biggest Western arrivals on streaming this year completed its gripping opening season. On July 3, the ups and downs of Rip (Cole Hauser) and Beth’s (Kelly Reilly) new life in South Texas at Dutton Ranch exploded in perfect finale fashion, with the stakes set for a confirmed second season, which is scheduled to begin filming early next year. We shouldn’t be surprised by the latest series in Taylor Sheridan‘s Yellowstone universe being a streaming sensation, but few expected it to break the record for the biggest original series debut in the history of Paramount+.

With Dutton Ranch Season 1 coming to an end, a Western-sized hole opened up in the viewing habits of millions. Luckily, Netflix rode in on horseback to save the day with the timely return of My Life With the Walter Boys. The YA Western hit, often likened to Prime Video’s The Summer I Turned Pretty, follows young Jackie (Nikki Rodriguez), who is caught in a love triangle with brothers Cole (Noah LaLonde) and Alex Walter (Ashby Gentry).

The series began life as a sleeper hit for Netflix, scoring a respectable 7.5 million views in its debut weekend. However, the show increased in popularity come Season 2, which debuted with 11.8 million views in its first four days of release, marking a 57% viewership increase from Season 1. Earning 9 million views and 71 million hours watched during its opening tracking window, Season 3 couldn’t live up to the highs of Season 2, but cemented the series as a strong favorite of Netflix subscribers. A week after the third season debuted, My Life With the Walter Boys is officially the most-watched series on Netflix in the U.S.

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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?
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What has your position cost you?
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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.

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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 Else Should You Be Watching on Netflix This August?

My Life With the Walter Boys is certainly one of the most anticipated streaming arrivals on Netflix this month, but there is also plenty more to be excited about. The likes of One Hundred Years of Solitude, based on Gabriel García Márquez‘s Nobel Prize-winning novel; Jung Hae-in and Ha Young‘s Our Sticky Love; and the perfect Bridgerton replacement, My Brilliant Career, have already arrived this August, with George Kay‘s Blood Sacrifice and a fifth and final season of Outer Banks still to come.

My Life With the Walter Boys is officially the most-watched series on Netflix in the U.S. Stay tuned to Collider for more streaming stories.


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Release Date

December 7, 2023

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Netflix

Directors

Jerry Ciccoritti, Winnifred Jong, Nimisha Mukerji

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Writers

Melanie Halsall, Ali Novak

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  • Nikki Rodriguez

    Jackie Howard

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