Anya Taylor-Joy in Lucky Episode 3Image via Apple TV
Five years after she became a household name thanks to The Queen’s Gambit, which remains one of Netflix’s most-watched original shows, Anya Taylor-Joy is back at the forefront of a new limited series that’s doing phenomenally well on another streamer. In the years since her breakout role, Taylor-Joy starred in an ill-fated superhero movie that was dumped in theaters when nobody was paying attention; she voiced a major character in a film franchise that has grossed more than $2 billion globally; and attempted to headline a franchise of her own with Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. The results were decidedly mixed, especially on the live-action front. But Taylor-Joy appears to have found success in the form of a new series on Apple TV, the same streamer that released her hit sci-fi romance film The Gorge last year.
Also featuring Miles Teller, The Gorge defied mediocre reviews to emerge as one of Apple TV’s rare breakout hits. The streamer rarely makes an appearance on the Nielsen charts, but it did so with The Gorge, and more recently, with the fourth season of its flagship comedy series Ted Lasso. Later this year, Taylor-Joy will appear in a prominent supporting role in Denis Villeneuve‘s hotly anticipated trilogy-capper Dune: Part Three. Her character was teased at the end of Dune: Part Two, which grossed more than $700 million at the worldwide box office a couple of years ago.
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.
Anya Taylor-Joy’s New Show Received Positive Reviews
But we’re talking about the Apple TV crime series Lucky. Created by Jonathan Tropper, who previously spearheaded the fellow Apple TV hit Your Friends & Neighbors, Lucky follows an ex-con who is forced to undertake one last job in an effort to turn a new leaf. The premise shares similarities with that of the third season of HBO’s Euphoria, which aired earlier this year and received divisive reviews. Lucky also features Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant, Drew Starkey, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and is currently sitting at a “Certified Fresh” 79% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. The site’s consensus reads, “Anya Taylor-Joy is Lucky in an entertaining bit of thrilling fare that often promises more than it can deliver but never lets the audience down when it comes to action and intrigue.” According to FlixPatrol, Lucky has now spent over a month on the domestic Apple TV viewership chart, despite competition from holdover hits and several returning titles. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Release Date
2026 – 2026-00-00
Network
Apple TV
Showrunner
Jonathan Tropper, Cassie Pappas, Jonathan van Tulleken
