Taylor Sheridan has stayed busy this year with several new TV shows on Paramount Plus, but there’s one that isn’t backing down, despite stiff competition. Sheridan is now a few years removed from the Yellowstone series finale, and although most fans would agree that Yellowstone is the show that helped put him on the map, Sheridan was around writing movies long before he even penned an episode of the Kevin Costner-led Western epic. Back in 2015, Sheridan wrote the script for the legendary neo-Western crime thriller, Sicario, and he even returned three years later to write the sequel, Sicario: Day of the Soldado. News broke a few weeks ago that most of the original Sicario crew is returning for a new sequel, Sicario 3, but Taylor Sheridan is reportedly not writing or directing the new movie, which is expected to film in 2027.
Sheridan may not be writing the new Sicario movie, but he does have a few action movies keeping him busy in the next few years. Between his work on F.A.S.T. and the Call of Duty movie, which are slated to be released in 2027 and 2028, Sheridan will continue to release new seasons of some of his most popular shows. Paramount usually doesn’t wait too long to decide the fate of a Taylor Sheridan-written and produced show, but one series that’s still without an official renewal or cancellation announcement is Lioness. Despite this uncertainty, Lioness is still one of the most-watched titles in the world on Paramount Plus, now more than a month removed from the Season 3 finale, which aired on September 20.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe QuizWhich Taylor Sheridan
Show Do You Belong In?Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of KingstownFour 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
FIND YOUR WORLD →
01
Where does your power come from?In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
ALand, legacy, and a name that’s been feared and respected for generations.
BKnowing the deal better than anyone else in the room — and being willing to walk away first.
CReputation. I’ve earned it the hard way, and everyone in the room knows it.
DBeing the only person both sides will talk to. That makes me indispensable — and dangerous.
02
Who do you put first, no matter what?Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
AFamily — blood or chosen. The ranch, the name, the people who carry it with me.
BThe company — or whoever’s signing the cheques. Loyalty follows the contract.
CMy crew. The men who stood with me when it counted — I don’t abandon them for anything.
DMy community — even when my community is a powder keg and I’m the only thing stopping it from blowing.
03
Someone crosses a line. How do you respond?Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
AQuietly, decisively, and in a way that sends a message to everyone watching.
BI outmanoeuvre them legally, financially, and politically before they even know I’ve moved.
CDirectly. Old school. You cross me, you hear about it to your face — and then you deal with the consequences.
DI absorb it, calculate the fallout, and find the move that keeps the whole system from collapsing.
04
Where do you feel most in your element?Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
AWide open land — mountains, sky, silence. Somewhere you can see trouble coming from a mile away.
BThe oil fields of West Texas — brutal, lucrative, and indifferent to whoever happens to be standing on top of them.
CA mid-size city where the rules haven’t quite caught up yet — fertile ground for someone with vision and nerve.
DA rust-belt town built around a prison — where everyone’s life is shaped by what’s inside those walls.
05
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.
AI do what has to be done to protect what’s mine. I’ll answer for it eventually — but not today.
BGrey is just business. The line moves depending on what’s at stake, and I move with it.
CI have a code — it’s not the law’s code, but it’s mine, and I don’t break it.
DI’ve made peace with it. Keeping the peace requires compromises most people don’t have the stomach for.
06
What are you actually fighting to hold onto?Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
AA way of life that the modern world is doing everything it can to erase.
BMy position — and the leverage that comes with being the person everyone needs to close a deal.
CRelevance. I’ve been away, I’ve been written off — and I’m proving that was a mistake.
DWhatever fragile order I’ve managed to build — because without it, everything burns.
07
How do you lead?Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
ABy example and force of will. People follow me because they believe in what I’m protecting — and because they know what happens if they don’t.
BThrough negotiation and leverage. I don’t need people to like me — I need them to need me.
CBy being the smartest, most experienced person in the room and making sure everyone quietly knows it.
DBy being the calm centre of a situation that would spiral without me — and accepting that nobody thanks you for it.
08
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.
AThey’ll learn. Or they won’t. Either way, the land was here before them and it’ll be here after.
BI figure out what they want, what they’re worth, and whether they’re an asset or a problem — fast.
CI was the outsider once. I give them a chance — one — to show they understand respect.
DNew players destabilise everything I’ve built. I assess the threat and manage it before it manages me.
09
What has your position cost you?Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
AMy family’s peace — maybe their innocence. The ranch demands everything, and I’ve let it take too much.
BRelationships, time, any version of a normal life. The job eats everything that isn’t nailed down.
CYears. Decades in some cases. Time I can’t get back — but I’m not done yet.
DMy conscience, mostly. And the ability to ever fully trust anyone on either side of the wall.
10
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.
AThat I held the line. That the land is still ours and everything I did was worth it.
BThat I was the best at what I did and that no deal ever got closed without me at the table.
CThat I built something real, somewhere nobody expected it, and I did it on my own terms.
DThat I kept the peace when nobody else could — and that the town is still standing because of it.
Sheridan Has SpokenYou Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your
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
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.
What Is ‘Lioness’ About?
Lioness stars Zoe Saldaña in the leading role of Joe, a CIA operative who tried to balance her work and personal life as the spearhead of a dangerous operation. Saldaña recently won her first Oscar for her performance in Emilia Pérez, the 2024 Netflix film, and she’s also famous for her role as Neytiri in the Avatar movies. Additional cast members for Lioness include James Jordan as Two Cups, Nicole Kidman as Kaitlyn Meade, Morgan Freeman as Edwin Mullins, and Michael Kelly as Byron Westfield. Paramount also announced a few weeks ago that Kelly is making the move to West Texas, where he’ll star in the third season of Taylor Sheridan’s Landman.
Check out the first three seasons of Lioness
Check out the first three seasons of Lioness on Paramount Plus and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Taylor Sheridan’s future projects.
TV-MA
DramaThrillerWar
Release Date
July 23, 2023
Network
Paramount+
Showrunner
Taylor Sheridan
Directors
Michael Friedman, John Hillcoat, Stephen Kay, Anthony Byrne, Paul Cameron, Taylor Sheridan, D. J. Caruso, Robert McLachlan
Writers
Taylor Sheridan
Zoe Saldana
Joe McNamara
Laysla De Oliveira
Cruz Manuelos
Special Ops: Lioness is a Paramount+ original series starring Zoe Saldana and Nicole Kidman. The series centers on a marine and a CIA agent who work together with the daughter of a dangerous terrorist group to destroy the organization. Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone co-creator) and Jill Wagner created the series, which was directed by Paul Cameron and Anthony Byrne.
