Following the success of Taylor Sheridan‘s shows, Paramount+ dedicated itself to producing and procuring more shows targeted at the same audience demographic. Sheridan’s magnum opus, Yellowstone, was infamously passed on by several networks and streamers, nearly all of which tried to create their own replacements once it became a sensation. Sheridan himself went on to create several other hit shows for the streamer he called home for nearly a decade. He has chosen to strike a new deal with NBCUniversal, leaving his legacy in the hands of a new group of leaders at Paramount. The streamer has attempted to expand the Yellowstone franchise without Sheridan’s direct creative involvement and has released similar series such as MobLand, which is due to return for a second season this year.
Now, a third show aimed at the same demographic has been moved from Showtime to Paramount+ for its second season, which was released recently. The show in question premiered in 2024 and received mostly positive reviews from critics. It was headlined by the Oscar-nominated Michael Fassbender, with Jeffrey Wright, Richard Gere, Katherine Waterston, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Hugh Bonneville in supporting roles. The show was created and executive-produced by the brothers John-Henry Butterworth and Jez Butterworth, the latter of whom also worked on MobLand.
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.
Paramount+ Has the Perfect Alternative to ‘MobLand’
We’re talking, of course, about the gripping spy drama The Agency. The series features Fassbender as a CIA agent who returns to his home base after being in the field for a number of years, during which he made personal decisions that his bosses would have preferred he hadn’t. The first season of The Agency holds a 66% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Emphasizing spycraft’s heavy toll to both intriguing and tiresome effect, The Agency situates its all-star cast in a sumptuously-shot world of espionage.” The second season, which was released on June 21, holds a perfect 100% score on the aggregator.
The Agency returned with a bang; according to FlixPatrol, it’s already the number two show on Paramount+, both domestically and worldwide. It’s trailing the latest installment of Sheridan’s Yellowstone universe, Dutton Ranch. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
