Even though Netflix’s efforts to produce its own version of Yellowstone, a show that the streamer infamously passed on, haven’t exactly paid off, it is continuing the quest by offering an alternative to the Yellowstone spin-offs. Created by Taylor Sheridan, Yellowstone emerged as a major hit for Paramount+, spawning numerous spin-offs and catapulting Sheridan to the upper echelon of Hollywood creatives. Every streamer and network that turned him down immediately set about creating shows that would appeal to his audience. Netflix released Ransom Canyon and The Waterfront, but only the former was renewed for more episodes. As an alternative to the Yellowstone prequels 1883 and 1923, Netflix offered the limited series American Primeval. And now, the streamer has released a new Western limited series that appears to be finding an audience early in its run.
According to FlixPatrol, it emerged as one of the top five most-watched shows on Netflix globally a day after its debut, when the leaderboard was topped by the holdover hit I Will Find You. The new series opened to mostly positive reviews, and is currently sitting at a 76% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. In her review, Collider’s Maggie Lovitt called it a “must-watch masterpiece” and praised it for creating “a fully realized world that feels tactile and familiar.” While it still needs to generate as much attention as it can in the early stages of its run, the series has already been renewed for a second season.
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.
Netflix’s Latest Western Offers Dollops of Nostalgia
We’re talking, of course, about the Little House on the Prairie re-imagining. Based on the series of children’s books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, which previously inspired a long-running NBC television series in the 1970s and an ABC mini-series in 2005, the new show stars Luke Bracy, Crosby Fitzgerald, Alice Halsey, and Skywalker Hughes. The eight-episode first season has been “Certified Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes, with a consensus that reads, “Little House on the Prairie dusts off the 70s and enters a new era of conscious creation and adaptation, striking the right balance between nostalgia and inspiration to craft a new and enlivened path for itself.” Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Release Date
July 9, 2026
Network
Netflix
Directors
Kat Candler, Julie Anne Robinson, Sydney Freeland, Sarah Adina Smith, Erica Tremblay
Writers
Adam Starks, Eleanor Burgess, Adam Starks, Tom Hanada, Francesca Butler
