If there's one thing you can count on, it's Taylor Sheridan ruling the roost on Paramount+. His hit series Yellowstone didn't just single-handedly revive the Western genre, but gave us multiple successful spinoffs, including 1883 and 1923.
Amazingly, these established spinoffs don't make up the five Taylor Sheridan shows that are currently dominating the streamer's top 10 chart. It currently looks something like this:
- South Park
- Marshals
- The Madison
- Yellowstone
- Tulsa King
- UFC Fight Night
- Ex on the Beach
- Spongebob Squarepants
- NCIS
- Landman
While Yellowstone is still the beating heart of everything Taylor Sheridan represents, Tulsa King is a complete outsider. The standalone series follows a New York Mafia capo exiled to Tulsa, Oklahoma, after serving 25 years in prison.
Then there's his most recent two escapades, The Madison and Marshals. The former is another standalone, exploring the grief in the Clyburn family as they uproot their high-profile New York City lives for rural Montana.
Marshals is the first direct Yellowstone spinoff since season 5 part 2 ended, but has so far been panned as a standard police procedural. We've still got Dutton Ranch to add to the list, though it isn't released until May.
In my opinion, you shouldn't be streaming any of the above TV shows I've just mentioned, but instead turn your attention to the one I've purposefully left out — Sheridan's ultimate masterpiece, Landman.
Sorry, but Landman is still Taylor Sheridan's most brilliantly bonkers show on Paramount+
I'm a tough critic, but even I would unironically award Landman a 5/5 rating. We're two seasons into Texan oilman Tommy Norris' (Billy Bob Thornton) rapidly declining lifestyle, equally stressed out by his unhinged family and intense job at M-Tex.
What's a nightmare for Tommy makes incredible television for us, with so much happening at once that you hardly know where to look for the best.
Even an oil dunce like me feels like they could work on a rig tomorrow without any further training than watching Landman, and that level of immersion feels special on its own. Sheridan's craft is operating on another level here, meaning no matter what's actually happening, you're invested.
Unexpectedly, it's the women of Landman who really make the show sing. Tommy's on-off again love, Angela (Ali Larter), is the dictionary definition of a bull in a China shop, with chaotic daughter Ainsley (Michelle Randolph) following in her footsteps.
Then there's Cami (Demi Moore), who has taken over ownership from M-Tex after the death of her husband Monty (Jon Hamm) in season 1. She immediately takes no prisoners while assuming the role, having to bail herself out of the mountain of problems that Monty hid from her while he was alive.
Landman is a jaw-dropping study of how complex people can be — and how that complexity affects other people. I can guarantee that you will hardly believe your ears listening to the outrageous dialogue, and will be left wondering just how much longer Tommy can hold on.
