Taylor Sheridan has unleashed several massive TV shows into the world this year, and it all started with a pair of neo-Westerns, Marshals and The Madison. The former is a Yellowstone spin-off starring Luke Grimes, but it was the first Sheridan-produced show to air on CBS and not straight to streaming on Paramount Plus. The Madison is a much slower paced, more emotionally charged Western featuring big stars like Kurt Russell and Michelle Pfeiffer — despite varying reviews, though, both shows were picked up for Season 2. Sheridan further expanded the Yellowstone story with Dutton Ranch, another spin-off coming back for Season 2 at a currently undisclosed date. The Yellowstone scribe is also returning to his screenwriting roots for his new action movie, F.A.S.T., which was recently delayed to May 2027 after originally being slated to premiere in April.
Just a few days ago, Sheridan finally brought back his black ops CIA thriller, Lioness, for its third season. The show went on hiatus for two years after airing its last season in 2024, but it’s finally back and firing all cylinders after its Season 3 premiere. Led by Zoe Saldaña and featuring other stars like Nicole Kidman and Morgan Freeman, Lioness is like a blend of Zero Dark Thirty and Yellowstone, perfect for fans who love intense espionage thrillers set against a dusty neo-Western backdrop, similar to Sheridan’s original Western hit. After the first episode of Lioness Season 3, “The Spider and the Fly,” premiered on August 2, the show quickly surged into the top spot as the most-watched title on Paramount Plus around the world at the time of writing.
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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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Taylor Sheridan Has Prime Real Estate in the Paramount+ Top 10
Not only is Sheridan’s Lioness the #1 show on Paramount right now, but he’s also taking up the third spot thanks to Yellowstone, the sweeping Western starring Kevin Costner. The show is streaming on Peacock in America. Sitting at #7 in the Paramount Plus top 10 is Tulsa King, Sheridan’s Sylvester Stallone-led crime thriller that’s expected to return later this year with its fourth season. Even Dutton Ranch, which is now over a month removed from its Season 1 finale, is still hanging around in the #8 spot on the Paramount Plus top 10 right now.
Check out the new season of Lioness on Paramount Plus, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the series.
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Release Date
July 23, 2023
Network
Paramount+
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Directors
John Hillcoat, Anthony Byrne, Paul Cameron, Stephen Kay, Taylor Sheridan
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