Perhaps no brand is stronger right now than that of Taylor Sheridan, the prolific Landman creator who’s been a driving force behind the success of Paramount+ and is now set to be NBCUniversal’s billion-dollar man.

Growing frustrated with his career as a journeyman actor, Sheridan asked to be killed off from his series regular role on FX’s Sons of Anarchy, leading to one of the great “bet on yourself” stories. Fully devoting himself to writing, Sheridan scripted two of the best films of the 2010s, Sicario and Hell or High Water, landing an Oscar nomination for the latter, before making his directorial debut with the well-received Wind River.

But he truly began building his empire in 2018 when his Kevin Costner-fronted Western drama series Yellowstone premiered on the Paramount Network. The momentum slowly built, and by the time season 4 arrived in 2021, Yellowstone was a pop-culture phenomenon, winning over audiences with the often-soap opera level drama surrounding the Dutton family and their vast, beautiful ranch. As the Yellowstone universe began expanding with the prequels 1883 and 1923, Sheridan continued launching other projects, going inside the worlds of special ops and oil production. Along the way, Sheridan has collected a murderers’ row of movie stars, bringing Costner, Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford, Jeremy Renner, Sylvester Stallone, Billy Bob Thornton, and many more to TV.

As of now, Sheridan has created or produced 10 narrative series for Paramount, plus the reality competitions The Last Cowboy and The Road. And there’s more Sheridan on the horizon, including another Yellowstone followup and a Tulsa King spinoff starring Samuel L. Jackson. In the wake of the recent premieres of Marshals and The Madison, and with the list of Sheridan shows growing by the day, hop in the saddle for our definitive ranking of the best Taylor Sheridan shows.

10. Marshals

The Sheridan-verse made the jump to broadcast television with Marshals, the Yellowstone sequel series that follows the continued adventures of the youngest Dutton sibling, Kayce (Luke Grimes). Yellowstone concluded with Jamie gifting his family’s land to the Broken Rock Reservation, keeping only a small piece to live on with his wife and son. But, at the beginning of Marshals, NAVY Seal-turned-rancher Kayce is dealing with the loss of the love of his life, and decides to return to law enforcement, joining an elite group of U.S. Marshals tasked with protecting Montana.

Only a few episodes into its run, Marshals is already a hit for CBS—perhaps because it’s truly a network procedural. Sheridan is just a producer, not writing or directing, and it shows. Minus Grimes and the picturesque landscape, this would feel like it was straight out of the same factory that churns out countless NCIS and FBI offshoots. And we’re taking points away for one of the most blatant uses of the fridging trope, by killing Kayce’s wife Monica (Kelsey Asbille), an original Yellowstone character, between the two series and using her unseen death as the catalyst for Marshals. You’d think that the end of Yellowstone would have taught them a lesson about offscreen demises.

9. Lawman: Bass Reeves