It was a particularly crowded field at Netflix last week, with the holdover hit Man on Fire fighting several new releases for the attention of viewers. Man on Fire has held the top spot on Netflix for two weeks in a row, despite competition from the British true-crime series Should I Marry a Murderer?, the second seasons of Worst Ex Ever and Running Point, and the critically acclaimed limited series Lord of the Flies. This is not counting overseas titles such as My Royal Nemesis and Straight to Hell. However, one show came out of nowhere to claim a spot in the top five.
The six-episode series is a crime drama set in the 1990s and based on real events. It was created by Neil Forsyth. He’s best known for the Paramount+ series The Gold, starring Hugh Bonneville and Jack Lowden, and the Scottish detective series Guilt. His new Netflix series stars Steve Cooganas a customs officer who assembles a ragtag team of misfits to investigate the influx of deadly drugs into the United Kingdom, at the direct orders of then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. His team infiltrates two crime rings by going undercover. The show combines the darkly humorous shenanigans of Apple TV’s hit espionage series Slow Horses with the grounded crime drama of Netflix’s own Narcos.
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 Your Next Big Netflix Binge
We’re talking, of course, about Legends. The series also features Tom Burke, best known for playing the titular character in the C.B. Strike series, based on the novels J.K. Rowling wrote under a pseudonym. He also played a memorable role in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga a couple of years ago. Burke is joined by Aml Ameen and Hayley Squires in the show, which currently holds a “Certified Fresh” 96% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The aggregator website’s consensus reads, “Legends gets the basics of the crime genre right, bringing in clear-cut drama to a daringly real tale and imbuing its narrative with the right balance of respect and spectacle.”
In her review, Collider’s Jessica Toomer wrote that Legends will probably be “the most watchable crime drama Netflix puts out this year.” The show has certainly caught the attention of audiences; according to FlixPatrol, it remained one of Netflix’s most-watched titles globally as it entered its second week of release after raking in 3.4 million views in week one.
