US Marshal Raylan Givens, played with perfect laconic cool by Timothy Olyphant, returns to his Kentucky hometown and starts aiming at his own past. Elmore Leonard’s dialogue has never been adapted better, and Walton Goggins’s Boyd Crowder is one of…
The 2026 Yellowstone followup that became the number one new show on television: Luke Grimes’s Kayce Dutton trades the ranch for a federal badge, chasing fugitives across the modern west. The procedural frame fits the universe better than expected, and…
The Duttons of the 1920s face drought, predatory land developers, and a generation broken by the first war. Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren anchor it as the patriarch and matriarch, and the combination of star power and frontier hardship gives…
The best thing Taylor Sheridan has made. This prequel follows the original Duttons on a wagon train heading west, and it plays the frontier as the death march it actually was: river crossings, bandits, and grief at every mile. Sam…
Kevin Costner’s John Dutton runs the largest ranch in Montana and defends it like a feudal lord: politicians, land developers, and his own children all get the treatment. Taylor Sheridan’s flagship is a soap opera in a cowboy hat, and…
A futuristic theme park where guests pay to live out their darkest fantasies among lifelike robots, until the robots start remembering. Season one is one of the best seasons of television HBO ever aired: a puzzle box about consciousness, free…
Outlaws, debuting on September 29, 1960, was a unique Western in that the stories were told with a dark edge from the point of view of the criminal. The audience was given the rare opportunity to see how the outlaws thought, how and why they plotted their crim
Hell on Wheels is an American Western television series about the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States. The series follows the Union Pacific Railroad and its surveyors, laborers, prostitutes, mercenaries, and others who