Taylor Sheridan TV Shows, Definitively Ranked

Perhaps no brand is stronger right now than that of Taylor Sheridan, the prolific Landman creator who’s been a driving force behind the success of Paramount+ and is now set to be NBCUniversal’s billion-dollar man.

Growing frustrated with his career as a journeyman actor, Sheridan asked to be killed off from his series regular role on FX’s Sons of Anarchy, leading to one of the great “bet on yourself” stories. Fully devoting himself to writing, Sheridan scripted two of the best films of the 2010s, Sicario and Hell or High Water, landing an Oscar nomination for the latter, before making his directorial debut with the well-received Wind River.

But he truly began building his empire in 2018 when his Kevin Costner-fronted Western drama series Yellowstone premiered on the Paramount Network. The momentum slowly built, and by the time season 4 arrived in 2021, Yellowstone was a pop-culture phenomenon, winning over audiences with the often-soap opera level drama surrounding the Dutton family and their vast, beautiful ranch. As the Yellowstone universe began expanding with the prequels 1883 and 1923, Sheridan continued launching other projects, going inside the worlds of special ops and oil production. Along the way, Sheridan has collected a murderers’ row of movie stars, bringing Costner, Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford, Jeremy Renner, Sylvester Stallone, Billy Bob Thornton, and many more to TV.

As of now, Sheridan has created or produced eight narrative series for Paramount, plus the reality competitions The Last Cowboy and The Road. And there’s more Sheridan on the horizon, including three Yellowstone followups and a Tulsa King spinoff starring Samuel L. Jackson. In the wake of the second-season finale of Thornton’s buzzy Landman, and with the list of Taylor Sheridan shows growing by the day, there’s no better time to hop on the saddle and rank the Sheridan productions.

8. Lawman: Bass Reeves

Maybe it’s not a coincidence that the one show on this list that Sheridan produced but didn’t co-create ended up at the bottom. Chad Feehan’s 2023 limited series is based on the true story of Reeves, a former slave who broke barriers as one of the first Black U.S. Marshals, becoming a revered hero thanks to his pursuit of some of the era’s most ruthless criminals.

David Oyelowo, who scored a Golden Globe nomination for his performance, more than lives up to the legend of Reeves. And he’s surrounded by a group of perfectly cast middle-aged and older actors who absolutely belong in the Sheridan Universe, including Dennis Quaid, Barry Pepper, Shea Whigham, Garrett Hedlund, and the late Donald Sutherland. But it’s a shame that they all aren’t utilized in a more engaging, propulsive series, one that got a longer runway—and perhaps, more of Sheridan’s influence.

7. 1923

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