Ranking All of the Taylor Sheridan Shows So Far

Sheridan’s TV empire isn’t limited to scripted fare. He’s also the creator of this CMT competition series, which follows the riders and trainers in the sport of horse reining as they make circles, rundowns, and rollbacks on their way to the Run for a Million in Las Vegas. It has a 6.8 rating on IMDb, with one user saying the show is “easy enough to follow for novice horse folks, but detailed enough for those that live in the horse world” but another complaining that it “does not show near enough riding.”

Sheridan executive produces this series alongside David Oyelowo, who also took on the title role. It tells the untold true story of the first Black U.S. Marshal who was later the inspiration for The Lone Ranger. Lauren E. Banks, Donald Sutherland, Dennis Quaid, and more also star in the series that IMDb viewers gave an average rating of 7.6. Most of the reviews consist of 10 and eight-star ratings, with one user saying, “There have been a few portrayals of this character over the years but David Oyelowo is by far the best yet.” As another shared, “The casting is outstanding. No caricatures, and everyone plays the role right on the money neither under nor over playing it. This is smart writing that doesn’t insult the intelligence of the viewer.”

With Jeremy Renner, Dianne Wiest, and co-creator Hugh Dillon in the cast, this Paramount+ series tracks the shifting power dynamics in a Michigan town entrenched in the prison-industrial complex. It gets an 8.2 rating, with one viewer calling it “dark, gritty, smart, [and] unnerving at times” and recommending it to fans of Sons of Anarchy, Bloodline, and The Sopranos. “The series has a real life-feel,” another person said. “Corruption exists, as we all know it exists, but in Kingstown, we get to see who is managing the scales of justice.”

After 1883, Sheridan jumped four decades in the family history for this Paramount+ title featuring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren as Dutton family members fighting for survival amid famine, pandemics, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. A day after the first episode dropped on Paramount+ and aired on Paramount Network, more than 800 IMDb users had given it ratings averaging 8.4/10. One praised the “beautifully shot, promising first episode” and another observed that “everything [Sheridan] touches turns to gold.”

Sylvester Stallone enters the TV landscape with this Paramount+ series, playing a New York City mafia boss who starts a new crime family in Tulsa, OK, after getting exiled there following his release from a 25-year prison term. With an IMDb rating of 8.4, Tulsa King “delivers,” according to one fan. “Stallone hits the mark with a brooding, no-nonsense performance that blends humor and violence to near perfection,” that IMDb user adds. Another reviewer writes that Stallone “deserves the upmost respect for his craft.”

Paramount Network’s biggest hit, which Sheridan co-created with John Linson, tracks the Dutton clan as they defend their Montana property, the largest contiguous cattle ranch in the country, from threats inside and outside the family. IMDb voters have given Yellowstone a rating of 8.7, with one saying it “has the feel and cinematography of Longmire, the plotting and grim outlook of The Sopranos, and the dramatic dynamics of shows like Dynasty,” and another saying that star Kevin Costner capably fills the boots of “a world-wearied man who has seen too much and lied too often.”

Narrowly edging out Yellowstone with an IMDb rating of 8.8, the first spinoff in the franchise shows how the Dutton family settled in Montana in the first place, with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill playing ancestors who journeyed into the American West and Sam Elliott a Civil War veteran leading their expedition. “It’s just you and an eclectic group of pioneers, learning their way as they embark on a relentless and unforgiving journey,” one IMDb user wrote. Another called 1883 “a no-holds-barred story about emigration to the Far West by groups displacing the native people” and “a real eye-opener to a reality usually glossed over or romanticized in productions of this sort.”