After a generational run as a jazz-loving modern-day gumshoe in the blockbuster Prime Video series Bosch, Titus Welliver will soon return to the small screen in a new series with massive potential. He is joined as the new show’s lead by the Oscar-winning J.K. Simmons. They play two childhood friends who drifted in different directions: one became a police officer and the other a gangster. Their paths collide in 1980s New York. It’s like Mystic River meets The Sopranos, and it’ll be released soon on MGM+ — the same streaming service that delivered the only well-liked Robin Hood adaptation of the last two decades earlier this year.
Welliver’s new series was created by Chris Brancato and Michael Panes. Brancato is best-known as the co-creator of the hit Netflix series Narcos and its spin-off, Narcos: Mexico. Panes transitioned, like the very successful Taylor Sheridan, from an acting career to writing, and worked on Brancato’s writing team for the Epix-turned-MGM+ series Godfather of Harlem. Their new show with Welliver also features Tom Brittney, a relative newcomer who made headlines recently for reportedly being in the running to play Batman in the DC Universe.
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.
Here’s When Titus Welliver’s New Show Premieres
We’re talking about The Westies. The crime drama series will debut on MGM+ on July 12. The show’s official logline reveals that the narrative unfolds in Daredevil’s backyard, Hell’s Kitchen, amid rising tensions between the Irish and the Italian gangs. Welliver is coming off the third season of Bosch: Legacy, a spin-off to the wildly successful Prime Video original, based on the novels of Michael Connelly. The original series ran for seven seasons, from 2014 to 2021, with the spin-off debuting on Amazon Freevee in 2023, airing a sophomore season in 2024, and concluding with a third season in 2025. Welliver also reprised his role as Bosch in another spin-off, Ballard, which has aired two seasons so far and has been renewed for a third. A prequel series featuring Cameron Monaghan in the lead role, titled Bosch: Start of Watch, will be released on MGM+. Simmons has a considerable body of work on television as well, having recently starred in shows such as Die Hart and Defending Jacob. In August, he will star as George Schultz in the Cold War drama film The Brink of War. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
