Every Taylor Sheridan TV Show, Ranked

Reported by Harper's Bazaar.

There's a certain kind of prestige television that operates like a franchise — one showrunner, one sprawling universe, a rotating cast of Oscar winners, and enough spin-offs to fill a streaming queue for months. Taylor Sheridan has built exactly that. According to Harper's Bazaar, his catalog now spans eleven series, ranging from gritty procedurals to sweeping family epics, with quality that varies just as wildly as the terrain his characters tend to ride through.

At the bottom of the pile sit Tulsa King and Mayor of Kingstown — both serviceable, both carried almost entirely by their leads. Sylvester Stallone plays a mob capo exiled to Oklahoma with more goof than gravitas, while Jeremy Renner navigates a fictional for-profit prison town where the corruption never lets up and the bleakness compounds season after season. Neither show benefits from Sheridan's tightest writing instincts, and it shows. Marshals, the Yellowstone spin-off starring Luke Grimes as a grief-stricken Kayce Dutton, fares slightly better in star power but leans hard into 42-minute procedural formatting — tidy resolutions, generic villains, and none of the sprawling dinner-table tension that made the flagship series worth watching.

Where the Universe Actually Gets Good

Lioness is the outlier that earns its prestige budget — tanks, helicopters, CIA operations, and a cast that includes Zoe Saldaña, Nicole Kidman, and Morgan Freeman. It's Sheridan's only show centered predominantly on women, and they are, without question, tougher than any cowboy he's ever written. Landman, meanwhile, plays like Yellowstone refracted through the Texas oil industry, with Billy Bob Thornton doing what he does best and Jon Hamm lurking in a corner office. It's imperfect and occasionally propagandistic, but Demi Moore's expanded role in season two is already reason enough to stay. And then there's The Madison — a quieter, grief-driven series starring Michelle Pfeiffer as a New York matriarch transplanted to Montana ranch life after her husband's death, directed with rare restraint by Christina Alexandra Voros. Critics are divided, but as a showcase for Pfeiffer, it's undeniable.

The crown, predictably, goes to 1923 — Sheridan's most ambitious entry, set during Prohibition-era Montana with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren anchoring the Dutton family lineage. It reaches beyond the ranch in a way none of the other shows quite manage, and the ambition lands. For anyone building a watch list, start there and work backward; the universe is messy, uneven, and wildly addictive in ways that have nothing to do with good judgment.

The Sheridan machine may not always produce gold, but it produces enough — and in prestige TV's current landscape, that's its own kind of power move.

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