If Taylor Sheridan’s brutal series, Taylor Sheridan’s prequel series, lets you want more, here are some essential Western dramas.
Posted on April 20, 2025
Julia Schlaepfer like Alexandra Dutton with Brandon Sklenar in the role of Spencer Dutton in “1923”.
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After having dried the eyes of the roller coaster of the season two finals for 1923Prepare for more shootings, betrayals and blood effusions from the expansion of television.
The tales of Wild West, which have long depended on tired tropes such as cattle readers, cowboy bar fights and train flights, obtained an elevator on the small screen thanks to the prolific Hitmaker Taylor Sheridan inspiring a wave of neo-Westerns led by YellowstoneDutton’s flagship family drama.
Frontier Justice Good Guys fighting the bad guys on the wide views of the Midwest and their trust horses have become very popular with the television public. Include the other Yellowstone prequel 1883,, Long warning And other Sheridan series like Mayor of Kingstown,, King of Tulsa And ManAnd you have an endless visualization of often modern and fresh dramas on revenge, redemption and perseverance.
Here is a list of Yellowstone– dramas inspired towards men where men and often 1923 Leave your mind.
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Carnival (Max)
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The HBO series by creator Daniel Knauf only ran for two seasons. But settled around a mysterious travel carnival during the great depression, Carnival Put an epic battle of good against evil in place. At the center of this war by proxy between heaven and hell on 24 episodes was a teenage farm from Oklahoma, Ben Hawkins (played by Nick Stahl), and a charismatic preacher, Brother Justin Crowe (Clancy Brown).
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Hatfield & McCoys (History)
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The Western historic mini-series of history was centered on a famous family blood quarrel that lasted decades. Kevin Costner as Devil Anse Hatfield and Bill Paxton as Randall McCoy have achieved memorable performances in the revenge drama inspired by the real battle between Hatfield and McCoy, Virginie-Western and Kentucky families, respectively. No one really knew why family war had started, but he certainly became bloody and legend after the end of the American civil war.
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1883 (Paramount +)
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This Yellowstone Taylor Sheridan’s original story follows the Dutton family as they travel through the big plains towards the last bastion of the American border. Leaving poverty behind, the 1883 DueTons follows a 19th century wagon track through the meadows to find wealth on a family property in Montana in a last bastion of America saved. The family and heartbreaking family drama that comes down to the questions of the stars of the border judge of fire guns Sam Elliott, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Isabel May, and is written and produced by Sheridan.
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Man (Paramount +)
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This Western saga leaves the Ranch for the Texas oil fields. The drama of Taylor Sheridan features Billy Bob Thornton in the role of Tommy Norris, the Landman holder of the series. He is a fixer who continues to function things and acts as an intermediary between field workers and men of the silver in the petroleum industry. Still the Huckster, Norris skillfully makes boom and bust cycles of the petroleum sector. ManWith Demi Moore, Jon Hamm, Ali Larter and Michelle Randolph, is suffocated with Western themes such as robust individualism, blind ambition and the difficulties of each man against current debates on oil, climate change and economic growth.
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Long warning (Netflix)
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Long warning It looks like a western, with a Sheriff of the County of Walt Longmire (played by Robert Taylor), which was recently widowed and keeps order in a sterile landscape. But it is also a procedure in that there are many crimes to be resolved. The drama was canceled by A&E after three seasons before being revived on Netflix. The series also features Katee Sackhoff, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bailey Chase, Cassidy Freeman and Adam Bartley.
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Dead wood (Max)
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Launched on HBO in 2004, Dead wood is complete Western. The series takes place in a mining camp in the southern Dakota in 1876. Timothy Olyphant plays a marshal from Montana and Ian McShane, without frills, is the intimidable, merciless and sadistic owner of the show, the brothel and the town of the city. Needless to say, keeping peace in this front of the border is not an easy task.
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Mayor of Kingstown (Paramount +)
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The popular criminal drama of Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon a Jeremy Renner playing Mike McKlusky, the unofficial mayor and head of a breeding family in Kingstown, Michigan, a city underpinned by the affairs of nine penitentiaries. Mayor of Kingstown Warm towards a fourth season on Paramount + after the third season that the Russian crowd installed a store in the city of Michigan, and a drug war broke out inside and outside the walls of the prison. Of course, Mclusky – played by Renner, returning after his almost deadly snowmobile accident in real life – must maintain peace, both in the city and his intestinal family.
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King of Tulsa (Paramount +)
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Taylor Sheridan King of Tulsa Replaces the Ranch with modern Oklahoma where Sylvester Stallone goes to the west as crime boss, Dwight “The General” Manfredi, who is released from prison after having served 25 years for refusing to return the local godfather. Now exiled from New York, Manfredi’s efforts to build a new crime union organized in Tulsa disorganized are complicated by his former crowd family showing little gratitude and having to get over the ways of a modern world, including mobile phones, credit cards and dispensaries of legal herbs.
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Impious (Netflix)
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The Limited Netflix series in 2016 by Scott Frank and Steven Soderbergh inspired a new life in the West. Jeff Daniels is Frank Griffin, an outlaw threatening with a terrible education and who terrorizes the West. He hunts Gunslinger Roy Goode (Jack O’Connell), his partner similar to a son who becomes a deadly enemy. He hid in the house of Alice Fletcher, played by Michelle Dockery de Downton Abbey Fame, in an isolated mining city led by women. Merritt Wever and Sam Waterston.
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Hell on wheels (AMC)
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The Tony and Joe Gayton brothers chose the backdrop of the construction of the first transcontinental railway in the country during the era of reconstruction to explore the themes of freedom and race. The revenge drama features Anson Mount as a former Confederate soldier chasing the union soldier who killed his wife. Located in a city of itinerant tent nicknamed Hell on Wheels while the railway is built, the series shows how the civil war may have ended, but American southern slaves are not yet free. The theme of what freedom means dominates the AMC series.
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