Six Taylor Sheridan series while we wait for The Madison

Yeehaw! The Taylor Sheridan wild bronco continues to buck and strut as his new series, The Madison, launches on M-Net this March. We’re headed back to Montana, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell co-starring as a New York-based husband and wife who take their family to a ranch in the wilderness while they recover from a tragic event. Emmy nominee Christina Alexandra Voros (Yellowstone, 1883) directs the new series, which also co-stars Beau Garrett, Patrick J Adams, and Matthew Fox.

As writer, creator and executive producer, Taylor’s collection of cowboy hats is piling up ever higher, and we’ve spotted Marshals on the horizon as well. The series centres on Yellowstone’s Ex-Navy SEAL Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) as he joins the US Marshals to tackle crime across the state of Montana. Other familiar faces for Yellowstone fans include Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham), Mo (Mo Brings Plenty), and Tate (Brecken Merrill). 

Watch The Madison Season 1 from Monday, 16 March at 21:00 on M-Net Channel 101. Available to binge on Showmax this April. And watch the horizon for more Taylor Sheridan series coming soon.

While we settle in to wait, it’s time to catch up on the Taylor Sheridan back catalogue, so here are all his series that you can watch on Showmax, right now.

Yellowstone Season 1-5

Throughout writer-creator Taylor Sheridan’s epic saga of ranchers vs land developers, patriarch John Dutton (Kevin Costner) leads his family’s battle against the powerful consortiums who’re snapping up land in Montana’s Paradise Valley – from farms, to nature reserves and Native American reservations – in the name of building a new city for the super-rich. It’s a modern Western centred on a messy, mega-rich family dynasty, power feuds, financial skullduggery, and property wars. Yellowstone sets amoral characters with opposing goals against one another, then pushes play as they let rip, finding the most underhanded ways of feeding the greed that drives them. 

1923 Season 1-2

In this Yellowstone prequel series, Taylor Sheridan takes us back to Paradise Valley in 1923, during the Great Depression and Prohibition era. It’s a difficult time for Dutton patriarch Jacob (Harrison Ford) and his wife, Cara (Helen Mirren), and in a familiar political scheme, Jacob sets out to stack the odds in the Duttons’ favour by becoming livestock commissioner. 

While Jacob’s nephew John Sr. (James Badge Dale) helps him to run Yellowstone, John’s brother Spencer (Brandon Sklenar), a World War I veteran, escapes to seek his fortune as a big game hunter in Kenya. Fans of Yellowstone’s Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) might find more than one parallel between Spencer and Kayce’s post-war struggles. And viewers collecting Dutton lore will also spot that Spencer carries Elsa Dutton’s Comanche knife. We’ll also get more of Thomas Rainwater’s (Gil Binmingham) backstory, too, through the tale of what his grandmother Teonna (Aminah Nieves) went through at one of the notorious Indian residential schools.

1883

Set in America’s Wild West in 1883, Taylor Sheridan’s 10-episode Yellowstone prequel mini-series follows the original Dutton family as James Dillard Dutton (Tim McGraw) takes his family South-West from Tennessee to Fort Worth, Texas, following his time in a POW camp during the American Civil War. Their journey by train and by covered wagon makes them unwelcome guests on Native American land. They’ll have to battle everything from the wildlife to disease, violence, and starvation as they carve out a place for their lives on the frontier. It’s life on the edge, always. 

Landman Season 1-2

Taylor Sheridan takes us to the wild, rural oil fields of Texas for Dallas-style drama. Rough-and-ready crisis manager Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) solves problems for M-Tex Oil tycoon Monty Miller (Jon Hamm) and his wife, Cami (Demi Moore), at work, while working a “second shift” at home as dad to his rebellious adult son, Cooper (Jacob Lofland), and teen princess, Aynsley (Michelle Randolph). The series splits focus between billionaire city life, and the thrill of roughneck ranching. 

Season 2 ramps up the family drama as Tommy becomes the new President of M-Tex – with a life debt to drug cartel boss Gallino (Andy Garcia). And a father-son "drink your milkshake” clash looms thanks to Tommy’s son Cooper Norris (Jacob Lofland) scooping up mineral rights around the coveted Wolf Camp area where Tommy and Cami (Demi Moore) are plotting to install costly horizontal drills, and the arrival of Tommy’s estranged father, TL (Sam Elliott).

Tulsa King Season 1-2

Taylor Sheridan shakes Westerns, mob films and comedy in an absurd box to give us this tale of unlikely friendships in an unlikely place. When 75-year-old Mafia don Dwight "The General" Manfredi gets out of jail, he’s expecting the red carpet treatment for protecting the mob and keeping his silence for 25 years behind bars. Instead, he’s sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma to start a new “family” racket.

Out of touch with modern life and laws, he’ll find it’s hard to intimidate a drug dealer when the drug they’re selling in an open storefront is legal, and yes, duh, the cops know about it. Needing a guide to this strange new world, Manfredi hires taxi driver Tyson Mitchell (Jay Will) to become his full-time driver, recruits marijuana dealer Lawrence "Bodhi" Geigerman (Martin Starr) to deal with the financial affairs of his new syndicate, and ex-con rodeo star and barkeeper Mitch Keller (Garrett Hedlund) to be his new “associate”. It’s the start of a beautiful friendship … and family.

Special Ops: Lioness Season 1-2 

Taylor Sheridan teamed up with series co-producer Nicole Kidman to create this action drama series inspired by the real-life Marine Corps’ Lioness Task Force and FETs (Female Engagement Teams). While it’s a far cry from Yellowstone life, there are common threads in that each generation of Duttons has experienced military service, and a conflict of loyalties when they’ve bonded with outsiders only to have to betray them in the name of the “greater good”. 

Senior CIA operative Kaitlyn Meade (Nicole) heads up the Lioness program, which assigns female operatives to go undercover on missions in the United States’ “War on Terror”. 

Kaitlyn’s Head of Operations, Joe (Zoe Saldaña), recruits and trains women, including Marine Cruz Manuelos (Laysla De Oliveira) to infiltrate global terrorist organisations like ISIS and eliminate key targets. They’ll operate in areas where, as women, their presence will be dismissed as irrelevant.