Titus Welliver as Dino Ciampa in The TownImage via Warner Bros.
With Titus Welliver returning to the crime drama genre with The Westies on July 12, a movie from his past resurfaced on the global HBO Max viewership charts during the same weekend. Welliver became a household name thanks to a memorable performance in the Prime Video series Bosch, in which he played the titular Los Angeles detective. He reprised the role in the spin-off seriesBallard and in the sequel series Bosch: Legacy. The movie that’s now witnessing a resurgence on streaming was released a few years before Bosch, which premiered on Prime Video in 2014.
Welliver played a pivotal supporting role in the 2010 movie, which also featured Jon Hamm, Blake Lively, Rebecca Hall, and Chris Cooper. The movie was headlined and directed by Ben Affleck, who previously made the acclaimed Boston-set mystery film Gone Baby Goneand announced himself as a filmmaker to watch out for. His 2010 feature was also set in his hometown of Boston, revolving around a gang of bank robbers who find themselves in over their head after a botched job. The movie also featured Jeremy Renner, who earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Oscars for his performance, and grossed more than $150 million worldwide against a reported budget of $37 million. The film now holds a “Certified Fresh” 92% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.
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
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
Titus Welliver’s Acclaimed 2010 Movie Is Riding ‘The Westies’ Wave
By now you’ve probably guessed that we’re talking about The Town. According to FlixPatrol, it was among the most-watched movies on the global HBO Max chart this past weekend, when The Westies premiered with two episodes. The new crime series also features J.K. Simmons, and has received excellent reviews so far. It’s now sitting at an 80% score on Rotten Tomatoes, with Collider’s David Caballero hailing Welliver as a stand-out. In his review, Caballero wrote that The Westies “isn’t reinventing the formula, it’s not particularly ambitious, and it’s not concerned with offering more than what’s on the screen.” Welliver and Affleck worked together on one more occasion, on Affleck’s 2016 period gangster drama Live By Night, which emerged as a massive critical and commercial underperformer. The Bosch franchise, on the other hand, is showing no signs of slowing down. It will return with a prequel series titled Bosch: Start of Watch, starring Cameron Monaghan. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
