Netflix’s attempts to woo the Yellowstone audience away from Paramount+ have been hit or miss — The Waterfront was canceled after one season and Ransom Canyon has struggled to attract positive reviews. But it seems to be having more success in its efforts to attract fans of procedural thrillers such as The Terminal List and Reacher. Earlier this year, Netflix knocked it out of the park with Man on Fire, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in the role made famous by Denzel Washington. The show accumulated more than 40 million views, according to Netflix’s recently released viewership report. It was followed closely by Nemesis, another crime thriller that captured the audience’s imagination with 32 million views. And now, the streamer has welcomed an unexpected new member to this small group.
With the fourth season of Reacher only a few weeks away, audiences seem to have found a perfect replacement in a French-language thriller series that follows a soldier who is forced to go rogue to protect his unit. The six-episode action-thriller has emerged as a global sensation; according to FlixPatrol, it’s currently the number one show on Netflix worldwide. It’s also among the streamer’s top five most-watched shows domestically, outpacing the record-setting holdover hit I Will Find You. Netflix’s latest viewership report, which tracked the performance of shows and films in the week of July 20 to July 26, revealed that the French-language sensation debuted with 10 million views. Not only did it outperform every other international title on the platform, but it also more than doubled Ransom Canyon‘s 4.1 million views for the week. In fact, it outpaced every show on the English-language list, including I Will Find You, Little House on the Prairie, The Hawk, and Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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 the New Netflix Sensation Taking Over the World
Elite Force Season 1Image: Tim @ Netflix
Starring Tomer Sisley and created by Julien Leclercq and Sylvain Caron, the show in question isElite Force. The show premiered on Netflix on July 22 and quickly rose up the viewership charts. It’s competing against the streamer’s other recent international hits, such as the South Korean titles The East Palaceand Agent Kim Reactivated. Needless to say, it’s outperforming both of those shows. Meanwhile, the fourth season of Reacher will be released in August, while its spin-off series Neagley will land on Prime Video in September. The second season of The Terminal List, starring Chris Pratt, will be released in October. Buckle up, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
