The article provides a list of Taylor Sheridan shows, ranked by action. It covers his more recent series like The Madison and 1923, as well as his earlier series like Yellowstone and 1883.
There's no stopping the Taylor Sheridan universe. The cowboy connoisseur has a knack for television, looping audiences in with contemporary stories of the American Wild West , where real business is often conducted in plain sight — but under a veil of discretion.
Whether it's the past or present, the way of the ranch is a timeless culture. In recent years, Sheridan has expanded beyond his Yellowstone roster, exploring other genres outside the traditional cowboy story. While some of his shows really get into the action and intensity, others place greater emphasis on character and storytelling depth. Without further ado, here are all the Taylor Sheridan shows, ranked by action.
Note: we opted not to include The Road since it's a reality competition show; the most action happening on it is singing. 11 'The Madison' It's never a nice feeling to be an outsider in your own family. The Madison follows the Clyburn family, who move from New York City to Montana's Madison River Valley after a tragic plane crash takes the lives of Stacy's husband and his brother.
Staying at a remote ranch near Bozeman, Stacy struggles to cope with her loss, all while the world refuses to pause for her. Loyal Yellowstone fans might be in for a surprise with The Madison. Instead of the usual action-driven plot, much of the slow-burning conflict comes from getting over a personal tragedy. Grief can be difficult when everyone's hurting, especially when they're not on the same page.
It might not be a cowboy's cup of tea, but for those who enjoy bittersweet countryside sentimentality, The Madison is the right show. 10 'Landman' There's a reason why oil prices keep rising, and it often comes at a human cost. Landman is set in the oilfields of West Texas, where roughnecks and billionaires fight to get their share of the booming industry.
At the center is Tommy Norris , a strict M-Tex executive caught between corporate power players in skyscrapers and the riggers who risk their lives on the oil fields every day. Landman only turns to violence when necessary, usually to deal with outlaws. Although the action intensifies when the drug cartel is involved, it only happens later in the series. Most of the story is corporate-driven, with M-Tex facing a financial crisis after a destroyed offshore rig.
Instead of physical fistfights, much of the battle happens in boardrooms — think negotiations, backstabbing, and scapegoating. 9 '1883' Hailed as the origin story of Yellowstone, 1883 may not feature the same confrontational action as Sheridan's more contemporary works. Aside from the occasional bandit attack, the series is more focused on the Dutton ancestors' fight for survival as they settle in what would eventually become Yellowstone. It is a family journey, only one filled with danger at every turn.
With only horses and caravans to carry them across the frontier, 1883 delivers a gritty and grounded take on the American Wild West, particularly the brutal realities of surviving the Oregon Trail before finally settling for Montana. Human threats are only part of the struggle. Nature itself becomes the main enemy, alongside disease, exhaustion, and sudden loss.
While 1883 may not rely on nonstop deadly action, it remains heartbreaking nonetheless. 8 '1923' While Yellowstone deals with land disputes involving the rich and powerful, and 1883 is about the Duttons settling their roots, 1923 is a historical epic about survival, colonialism, and generational trauma. Jacob Dutton and Cara Dutton , now in their elder years, leave much of the fighting to the ranch hands as they struggle to keep their land intact within their limited capacity.
But 1923 promises far more brutal action on the other side of the world: Africa. The wildlife in Kenya is far deadlier than anything in Montana, and Spencer constantly finds himself fending off raging elephants, leopards, and lions. Fighting humans is difficult enough, but animals do not care about morality or mercy — to them, you are just flesh waiting to be consumed. COLLIDER.
Collider · Quiz 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 → QUESTION 1 / 10POWER 01 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.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 2 / 10LOYALTY 02 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. NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 3 / 10CONFLICT 03 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.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 4 / 10SETTING 04 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.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 5 / 10MORALITY 05 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.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 6 / 10AMBITION 06 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.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 7 / 10LEADERSHIP 07 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.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 8 / 10OUTSIDERS 08 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.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 9 / 10COST 09 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.
NEXT QUESTION → QUESTION 10 / 10LEGACY 10 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.
REVEAL MY SHOW → 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 YELLOWSTONE 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. LANDMAN 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.
TULSA KING 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.
MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN 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. ↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ 7 'Dutton Ranch' Picking up right after the Yellowstone finale, Beth and Rip Dutton move to South Texas in the aftermath of a wildfire engulfing the Montana wildlife.
Together with their adopted son, Carter , the family starts anew by purchasing a new ranch. However, not everyone is happy with the new competition, especially the highly pragmatic 10 Petal Ranch owner, Beulah Jackson . Considering that the two are outsiders, the much calmer Beth and Rip conduct business as civilly as possible.
However, that doesn't mean they aren't still as strict and stern as ever. Given that it's still early in the show at the time of writing, the action hasn't fully ramped up yet.
Still, with characters like Beulah's wildcard son and Carter, who isn't afraid to tackle an abusive man, Dutton Ranch knows exactly when to be soft and when to turn violent. 6 'Lawmen: Bass Reeves' Based on the real-life lawman who reportedly made more than 3,000 arrests, Lawmen: Bass Reeves follows the near-mythic figure as he becomes one of the first Black deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River. The series plays out as both a historical recount and a character study, tracing Reeves from his beginnings in slavery to his rise as a feared and respected lawman on the frontier.
Much of Reeves' work involves lengthy investigations, tracking fugitives across dangerous territory. However, the series wastes no time reminding viewers that Reeves is an expert marksman capable of turning a standoff violent in seconds.
Shootouts, ambushes, fistfights, and tense manhunts all become part of the job, and when the law doesn't side with men like Reeves, things can get ugly once in a while. 5 'Marshals' When you put a rancher like Kayce Dutton back into the field, things can get messy. A former U.S. Navy SEAL, Kayce goes back to his roots in Marshals following the death of his wife.
To cope with his grief, he took the opportunity to serve as a U.S. Marshal. Unlike Yellowstone, where Kayce follows an unspoken code within the ranch and his family, he is now completely on his own as he is thrown into the deep end of protecting Montana. Marshals wastes no time throwing Kayce into dangerous operations, including investigating a possible terror attack on the Broken Rock Indian Reservation.
Unlike in Yellowstone, where he was often pushed around by his family, Kayce's moral code is now the law. Although not quite as abrasive as what he's accustomed to during the Yellowstone days, Marshals promises a generous amount of shootouts, horse chases, and explosions. 4 'Tulsa King' Tulsa King might start off with a classic New York Mafia premise, but for a gangster crime drama, it is surprisingly more on the lighthearted side.
After being imprisoned for 25 years, Dwight"The General" Manfredi expects to be treated like a hero for never snitching on his bosses all those years. Instead, he gets exiled to the middle-of-nowhere Tulsa, Oklahoma, forced to build his own business from scratch. Subscribe for deeper Taylor Sheridan show coverage Want more context on Sheridan's shows?
Subscribe to the newsletter for deeper rankings, episode-level analysis, and side-by-side breakdowns that help you compare action, character depth, and storytelling across his TV catalog. Get Updates By subscribing, you agree to receive newsletter and marketing emails, and accept our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You can unsubscribe anytime. Anyone familiar with the mob genre knows how specific those action scenes usually are: slick, claustrophobic, and more interested in prolonging pain before finally killing somebody.
But much of Tulsa King also revolves around Dwight building a crew of misfits who hilariously do not always get along. Still, when they lock in together, they pull off lively, tightly choreographed fights full of grappling, shootouts, and perfectly timed takedowns. 3 'Yellowstone' Everyone — literally everyone — is beating the living lights out of each other in Yellowstone.
Following John Dutton III and his exceptionally different adult children, the series makes one thing painfully clear: everybody is capable of physically fending for themselves, whether they are ranchers working the land or corporate players fighting from behind office desks. Above all else, their main priority is protecting the ranch from vulture enterprises and corporations trying to seize it for themselves.
On their best days, they get into fistfights outside the family home or deliver casual beatings to remind enemies who is in charge. At their worst, rival gangs send men to literally tear through their offices, leaving behind bloody trails of bodies.
It does not matter whether it happens in a store in broad daylight or a bar in the dead of night — one wrong move, and you are gone. 2 'Mayor of Kingstown' Mike McClusky is not someone to be messed with in Mayor of Kingstown. Unlike Sheridan's usual lineup of cowboys and countryside dramas, the crime thriller follows Mike as he becomes the unofficial"mayor" — or rather, the fixer — of the fictional Kingstown, a place that feels less like a home and more like a company town built on incarceration.
A former inmate himself, Mike knows how to keep the criminal underworld from spiraling out of control. With seven prison systems within a 10-mile radius, he is always one arm's length away from pulling a gun, slamming somebody into the ground, or getting nearly stabbed. But the scariest part of Mayor of Kingstown's violence is that it stems from a corrupt prison system that fails to rehabilitate the incarcerated.
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