Taylor Sheridan’s Ambitious TV Gamble Has Finally Paid Off

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Published Oct 27, 2026, 3:21 PM EDT

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Taylor Sheridan is at the top of his television game, and the charts don’t lie. While his early beginnings in the industry started with acting, Sheridan found early success as the screenwriter of Sicario in 2015. However, it was his 2018 Western saga, Yellowstone, that put his name on the map. In the eight years since, Sheridan has released more than 10 television projects with his name attached. Following the show’s success, he has continued to expand the universe through prequels and sequels.

But Sheridan isn’t afraid to get out of his comfort zone. He has explored other Western stories outside the Yellowstone universe, returned to his thriller roots with projects that echo Sicario, and even begun building a crime universe centered on the mafia. With so many shows under his belt, it might seem easy for some of them to get lost in the crowd. Yet the charts tell a different story, showing that Sheridan’s shows continue to attract viewers months after their initial release.

Taylor Sheridan Has Four Shows in Amazon’s Top TV Charts

As of October 2026, four of Sheridan’s shows — Dutton Ranch, Marshals, Landman, and Lioness — secured spots on Amazon Store’s Top TV Shows charts. Interestingly, these shows didn’t all premiere around the same time. Marshals debuted in March 2026, while Dutton Ranch premiered later in May. Being featured on the Top TV Shows charts proves that audiences still want more stories set in the Yellowstone universe and that spin-offs can be a successful way to keep the franchise going.

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

⚖️Mayor of Kingstown

FIND YOUR WORLD →

Where does your power come from? In Sheridan's world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.

ALand, legacy, and a name that's been feared and respected for generations. BKnowing the deal better than anyone else in the room — and being willing to walk away first. CReputation. I've earned it the hard way, and everyone in the room knows it. DBeing the only person both sides will talk to. That makes me indispensable — and dangerous.

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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan's universe is always absolute — and always costly.

AFamily — blood or chosen. The ranch, the name, the people who carry it with me. BThe company — or whoever's signing the cheques. Loyalty follows the contract. CMy crew. The men who stood with me when it counted — I don't abandon them for anything. DMy community — even when my community is a powder keg and I'm the only thing stopping it from blowing.

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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.

AQuietly, decisively, and in a way that sends a message to everyone watching. BI outmanoeuvre them legally, financially, and politically before they even know I've moved. CDirectly. Old school. You cross me, you hear about it to your face — and then you deal with the consequences. DI absorb it, calculate the fallout, and find the move that keeps the whole system from collapsing.

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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.

AWide open land — mountains, sky, silence. Somewhere you can see trouble coming from a mile away. BThe oil fields of West Texas — brutal, lucrative, and indifferent to whoever happens to be standing on top of them. CA mid-size city where the rules haven't quite caught up yet — fertile ground for someone with vision and nerve. DA rust-belt town built around a prison — where everyone's life is shaped by what's inside those walls.

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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.

AI do what has to be done to protect what's mine. I'll answer for it eventually — but not today. BGrey is just business. The line moves depending on what's at stake, and I move with it. CI have a code — it's not the law's code, but it's mine, and I don't break it. DI've made peace with it. Keeping the peace requires compromises most people don't have the stomach for.

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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.

AA way of life that the modern world is doing everything it can to erase. BMy position — and the leverage that comes with being the person everyone needs to close a deal. CRelevance. I've been away, I've been written off — and I'm proving that was a mistake. DWhatever fragile order I've managed to build — because without it, everything burns.

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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan's world is never given — it's established, maintained, and constantly tested.

ABy example and force of will. People follow me because they believe in what I'm protecting — and because they know what happens if they don't. BThrough negotiation and leverage. I don't need people to like me — I need them to need me. CBy being the smartest, most experienced person in the room and making sure everyone quietly knows it. DBy being the calm centre of a situation that would spiral without me — and accepting that nobody thanks you for it.

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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.

AThey'll learn. Or they won't. Either way, the land was here before them and it'll be here after. BI figure out what they want, what they're worth, and whether they're an asset or a problem — fast. CI was the outsider once. I give them a chance — one — to show they understand respect. DNew players destabilise everything I've built. I assess the threat and manage it before it manages me.

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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.

AMy family's peace — maybe their innocence. The ranch demands everything, and I've let it take too much. BRelationships, time, any version of a normal life. The job eats everything that isn't nailed down. CYears. Decades in some cases. Time I can't get back — but I'm not done yet. DMy conscience, mostly. And the ability to ever fully trust anyone on either side of the wall.

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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.

AThat I held the line. That the land is still ours and everything I did was worth it. BThat I was the best at what I did and that no deal ever got closed without me at the table. CThat I built something real, somewhere nobody expected it, and I did it on my own terms. DThat I kept the peace when nobody else could — and that the town is still standing because of it.

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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.

🤠 Yellowstone

🛢️ Landman

👑 Tulsa King

⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown

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.

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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Landman, on the other hand, last released a season in November 2025. With Season 3 still in production and no new episodes arriving this year, its continued presence on the charts suggests that viewers are still invested in the series. Lioness is on a more regular schedule, with its latest season premiering in August. Ultimately, these rankings show that a series' staying power isn't determined by release timing alone. Sheridan's series have built enough of an audience to keep viewers coming back, even between seasons.

'Yellowstone' Spin-Offs Are Succeeding, But There’s Still Room To Grow

Yellowstone may have ended in 2024, but fans clearly want to know what happens to the remaining Duttons after they sold their Montana property back to the Broken Rock Indian Reservation. Of course, life doesn’t stop after their family tragedy. In Dutton Ranch, Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) and Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser), together with their adopted son, Finn, pack their bags for Rio Palma, Texas, to build their own ranch from scratch. As for Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes), he’s still living in East Camp in Marshals. Instead of tending to livestock, he’s tapped back into his military roots and joined the U.S. Marshals at the insistence of his former Navy SEAL team leader.

Dutton Ranch's debut season quickly became a fan favorite, earning a 90% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Despite sharing similar themes with Yellowstone, Dutton Ranch differentiates itself by featuring a predominantly female cast on the front lines of the ranch business, offering a unique perspective on how these women cope professionally and personally in a male-dominated industry. However, Marshals has its work cut out for it, with a 48% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Marshals Season 1 trades Yellowstone’s philosophical themes and slow-burn tension for a swift, case-of-the-week procedural akin to NCIS. Luckily, Marshals Season 2 could give the show an opportunity to develop more organically by giving audiences reasons to care about the new ensemble.

Taylor Sheridan Must Balance Quality With Quantity

Zoe Saldaña as Joe looking serious in Lioness Season 3

With more than ten shows currently under his wing, Sheridan needs to balance quality and quantity, especially when it comes to multi-season shows. Introducing new ideas and formulas helps keep a series fresh, but those changes still need to stay consistent with the show's original premise. Lioness Season 3 is a good example of this balancing act. The season takes a major departure from the first two seasons by moving the Lioness program out of the center of the story. Although this change initially strays from the show's roots, the new direction eventually pays off in the Season 3 finale, which fittingly circles back to Season 1.

Behind-the-scenes decisions matter just as much as creative output. Landman might be holding steady on the charts, but production delays could put its momentum at risk. Season 3 is expected to film through the first quarter of next year, pushing its release beyond the show's usual November window. In the fast-paced streaming era, missing a regular release window can make it harder to maintain viewership momentum. That's a particular concern for Landman, which, despite its 80% Tomatometer score, has a more mixed 58% Popcornmeter score among average audiences. Nevertheless, Sheridan's household name alone is strong enough to attract viewers, regardless of format, creative changes, or production delays—and Amazon's Top TV charts prove it.

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