It’s commonly joked that Taylor Sheridan keeps Paramount+ in business because, at any given time, he has three or more shows trending on the streamer’s top ten. The prolific writer-director has delivered more hits for Paramount+ than any other creator, and even as he prepares to depart the company for NBCUniversal, the numbers keep rolling in. Yellowstone remains his most popular series to date, spawning numerous successful spin-offs. However, the latest entrant into this universe sends the franchise into the stratosphere.
The series is a departure from what viewers have come to expect of the Yellowstone universe. Instead of the deep analytical and dramatic dialogue seen on Yellowstone and its spin-offs, this series focuses on high-octane chases and ensuing showdowns. It is fast-paced and character-centric as one of the Dutton family’s most elusive members finally gets the spotlight. Viewers have shown an appetite for the action-drama, sending it to the top of streaming and linear charts.
That series is Marshals, the Luke Grimes-led spin-off set after the events of Yellowstone. Grimes’ character Kayce Dutton has left the ranching world behind and joined his former military buddy Pete Calvin (Logan Marshall-Green) for a new kind of thrill. Calvin leads an elite team of U.S. marshals tasked with enforcing the law and curbing crime in one of the roughest areas in America. Kayce’s cowboying skills and familiarity with the geography and culture make him a strategic asset.
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.
Is ‘Marshals’ a Good Show?
The series made history as the lowest-rated Yellowstone spin-off, with scores of 42% and 27% among critics and viewers, respectively, on Rotten Tomatoes. However, that hasn’t stopped Marshals from becoming the number-one show on CBS and Paramount+. It has helped CBS become the winning network for the 2025-2026 television season. The procedural aspect of the show caught many by surprise, as reflected in the critics’ consensus on Rotten Tomatoes. “Marshals confines Kayce Dutton within a dim procedural that lacks the narrative spark and intrigue that Yellowstone managed instantly, making this one ham-fisted trek,” their verdict reads.
New episodes air on Sundays, and in Season 1’s penultimate episode, the show revisits the problems that plague the reservation. “As they uncover a drug cartel targeting the Broken Rock Reservation, the Marshals race to locate Miles (Tantaka Means), only to discover that he has gone rogue to hunt down a trafficker,” the logline for Marshals Season 1, Episode 12, “Devil at Home,” reads.
Catch new episodes weekly on CBS for the next two Sundays or catch up on Paramount+. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
