Taylor Sheridan fans are riding high right now after the legendary writer has delivered several intense shows to kick off 2026. Sheridan got the ball rolling with a new Yellowstone offshoot, Marshals, which stars Luke Grimes as Kayce Dutton now that he’s left ranch life behind to become a U.S. marshal. Around the same time that Marshals was first released via CBS — the first Sheridan-produced network show — Paramount Plus subscribers were treated to the first season of The Madison, the touching drama led by Kurt Russell and Michelle Pfeiffer. The Madison has already been renewed for second and third seasons, so the show isn’t going off the air anytime in the next few years. Sheridan has a few other shows set to return later this year, including Tulsa King (starring Sylvester Stallone) and Mayor of Kingstown (starring Jeremy Renner), but the latter isn’t the first time he has worked with the MCU star.
Recently trending at #5 in Paramount+'s Top 10 movies, An Unfinished Life is finally getting its due after all these years. The Robert Redford-led production is the heartwarming neo-Western that your soul has been craving ever since you decided to turn off Yellowstone after one too many Dutton altercations. Instead of murder and mayhem, the picture leans into the good, old-fashioned values that make up the modern American West, with a stunning cast and remarkable screenplay that will likely bring you to tears. No, this isn't your Kevin Costner-sized neo-Western, but it's a powerful film that does everything right.
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There couldn't have been an actor more suited to the role of John Dutton on Yellowstone than Kevin Costner. And despite the ups and downs, the back and forth, the will-they-won't-they between him and the show's creator, Taylor Sheridan, Yellowstone turned out to be just the sort of hit that Costner needed at this stage of his career. The show's success gave him the confidence to mount his own Western epic, Horizon: An American Saga, which remains stalled after the underperformance of the first installment. He spent a considerable amount of his Yellowstone earnings on self-financing the epic Western series, not to mention the fact that he effectively gave up the chance to return for more seasons of the show by focusing on his own project. But Costner and the Western genre go hand-in-hand; some of the best and most underrated movies of his career are Westerns.
The decision to expand Taylor Sheridan's sprawling Yellowstonefranchise to linear television appears to have paid off, even without the hit-maker's direct creative involvement. The Yellowstone franchise began in 2018 with the titular series, which ended its five-season run rather abruptly in 2023 following reports of behind-the-scenes disputes between Sheridan and star Kevin Costner. Since then, Sheridan has delivered the hit prequels 1883and 1923, in addition to continuing his success streak with a string of other, non-Yellowstone titles. However, with his Paramount contract partially expired, he isn't creatively involved with the two latest installments of the franchise — at least not to the degree he's accustomed to. This is a major change from the norm, given that Sheridan had earned notoriety for eschewing traditional TV writers' rooms and commanding an atypical level of creative authority on his projects.
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