Yellowstone S4 may not have been the best of the show — the first two are indisputably superior to the last two — but it propelled the Paramount Network’s modern Western from a popular show to a global phenomenon. Yellowstone is a success in a manner that T.V. shows aren’t anymore — it’s a television program that grew in prominence over time owing to word-of-mouth in isolated sections of the country.
If you’ve seen S4 repeatedly, you might seek anything else Yellowstone related to tide you over since S5 arrives.
Additional Taylor Sheridan projects, things that affected Yellowstone, and programs about families attempting to safeguard what they own are among the items on the list.
15. Longmire
- Director: T.J. Scott
- Writer: Craig Johnson
- Cast: Robert Taylor, Katee Sackhoff, Lou Diamond Phillips, Adam Bartley, Cassidy Freeman
- IMDb Ratings: 8.3
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 88%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix.
Following three seasons on A&E, our Wyoming-set series featuring determined and unflappable sheriff Walt Longmire was canceled. Longmire Posse supporters were outraged and rushed to social media to let others know. Netflix ultimately renewed Longmire for three more seasons.
Longmire is created based on crime drama books by Craig Johnson and follows Sheriff Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor) as he attempts to reconstruct his lifetime and profession after his wife’s death. He hides his anguish behind a bold countenance, disarming grin, and dry humor.
The sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, investigates crimes with his assistant Victoria “Vic” Moretti (Katee Sackhoff), and closest buddy Henry Standing Bear (Lou Diamond Phillips).
14. Ozark
- Director: Bill Dubuque, Mark Williams
- Writer: Bill Dubuque, Mark Williams
- Cast: Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Sofia Hublitz, Skylar Gaertner, Julia Garner, Jordana Spiro
- IMDb Ratings: 8.2
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 88%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix.
If you like the crime family aspect of Yellowstone, you’ll enjoy Ozark Netflix over time. Marty and Wendy Byrde are a married couple who relocated their family from Chicago to the Lake of the Ozarks area of Missouri now since Marty’s drug gang laundering money task goes badly, and they rapidly become engaged with the criminal class in their new red state residence.
It has the same degree of performance and ability to produce high as a top-tier luxury play in pursuing pure mass entertainment as Yellowstone.
13. Outer Range
- Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios, Jennifer Getzinger, Amy Seimetz
- Writer: Brian Watkins
- Cast: Josh Brolin, Lili Taylor, Tamara Podemski, Tom Pelphrey, Imogen Poots
- IMDb Ratings: 7.3
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 80%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video.
The above mind-bending sci-fi Western was almost certainly presented to Amazon as “Yellowstone meets Lost.” Royal Abbott, a ranch who uncovers a vast, strange hole on his land that seems to have that kind of otherworldly power, starring Josh Brolin, a Sheridan warrior from Sicario, in writer Brian Watkins’ Prime Video puzzler.
Folks are attempting to take Abbott and his family’s plantation from them — one of several aspiring purchasers is Wayne Tillerson, a wealthy rancher performed by Will Patton, who Yellowstone fans will recognize as Jamie Dutton’s biological dad Garrett Randall — but Royal rejects to sell, at least till he estimates out what’s going on with this pit.
Although the sci-fi aspect distinguishes Outer Range from Yellowstone, the location, photography, acting, and acting are all highly influenced by television’s current Western smash.
12. 1883
- Director: Ben Richardson, Taylor Sheridan
- Writer: Taylor Sheridan
- Cast: Sam Elliott, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Isabel May, LaMonica Garrett
- IMDb Ratings: 8.8
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 87%
- Streaming Platform: Paramount Plus, Amazon Prime Video.
The precursor to Yellowstone, 1883, depicts the tale of John Dutton’s forebears’ journey to Montana. James Dutton (Tim McGraw) and Pinkerton officer Shea Brennan (Sam Elliott), a rugged old cowboy with a golden heart, are bringing their family on a treacherous trek through the Great Plains. It’s a traditional Western with stunning cinematography.
It’s a traveling show more akin to Lonesome Dove than Yellowstone. Still, viewers of the main program will recognize Taylor Sheridan staples like beautifully masculine banter and a great sense of realism in its cowboy-life elements. Check out our comparison of Yellowstone and 1883 to learn more about the contrasts and commonalities.
11. The Son
- Director: Tom Harper, Kevin Dowling
- Writer: Philipp Meyer, Lee Shipman, Brian McGreevy
- Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Henry Garrett, Zahn McClarnon, Jess Weixler, Paola Núñez
- IMDb Ratings: 7.4
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 53%
- Streaming Platform: Hulu and Amazon Prime Video.
If you’re looking for a program that mixes 1883’s period backdrop and Yellowstone’s family ranch thriller, check out the 2017 theatrics The Son. The two-season sitcom starred Pierce Brosnan as the patriarch of a rancher family and was broadcast on AMC.
The distinction is that The Son is based in Texas in two eras, the 1840s as well as the early 1900s, and follows Brosnan’s protagonist Eli McCulloch as a little boy when Comanches kidnaped him and also as a dad who struggles to connect with his son in the current period. However, the idea is uncannily identical to Yellowstone: Get off my ranch!
10. Let him go
- Director: Thomas Bezucha
- Writer: Thomas Bezucha
- Cast: Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Lesley Manville
- IMDb Ratings: 6.7
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 84%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video.
Greetings, Costner fans. If watching current-day Kevin Costner inside the American West is your favorite part of Yellowstone, you’ll love this film, in which he portrays George, a former sheriff and now horse farmer grieving his son.
However, the film goes further than the benchmark “grizzled older man discovers his emotions” trope, as it rapidly becomes evident that George as well as his wife, performed by Diane Lane, are exiting their Montana ranch to chase down their youthful grandson as well as their daughter-in-law, who have in recent times remarried an abusive person.
It was more of a high-stakes drama than a peaceful family story, and Costner is fantastic.
9. Wind River
- Director: Taylor Sheridan
- Writer: Taylor Sheridan
- Cast: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen
- IMDb Ratings: 7.7
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 87%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
Taylor Sheridan made a reputation with himself as a movie screenwriter, authoring such successes as Sicario, Sicario: Day after Soldado, as well as Hell or High Water, which garnered him a slew of awards, along with an Academy Award nomination.
Sheridan produced and performed Wind River in 2017, a story about a U.S. Fish and Wildlife tracker (Jeremy Renner) as well as an FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) who link proposed to fix a victim of sexual violence and murder on such a Native American reservation in Wyoming during the middle of the winter.
It includes Sheridan’s characteristics, such as solid action scenes, a relationship with the country, and complex character interactions.
8. Mayor of Kingstown
- Director: Taylor Sheridan
- Writer: Taylor Sheridan, Hugh Dillon
- Cast: Jeremy Renner, Dianne Wiest, Hugh Dillon, Tobi Bamtefa
- IMDb Ratings: 8.2
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 32%
- Streaming Platform: Paramount Plus, Amazon Prime Video.
Taylor Sheridan is proven to be among Hollywood’s most brutal working men (his part of Hollywood is a historic ranch in Texas that he owns). He’s working on two Yellowstone spin-offs and co-creating the upcoming Paramount+ series Mayor of Kingstown.
Even though it is not situated on a ranch, it contains many of Yellowstone’s hallmarks: a gruff character actor (Jeremy Renner, who previously featured in Sheridan’s Wind River), intricate interactions between powerful characters, and challenging people being hard men.
Renner portrays a power broker in Michigan’s primary trade as prisons, and while he battles to keep his empire intact, he meets politicians, cops, and crooks.
7. Sons of Anarchy
- Director: Kurt Sutter
- Writer: Kurt Sutter
- Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal, Mark Boone Junior, Kim Coates
- IMDb Ratings: 8.6
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 88%
- Streaming Platform: Disney+ Hotstar and Amazon Prime Video.
There are several parallels between Yellowstone and Sons of Anarchy F.X. SAMCRO and Yellowstone are families/gangs that are difficult to join and quit. Both programs share a fascination with male entitlement and an unruly mentality of roughness that pits us against society. The ladies in both families are more robust than the males. Charlie Hunnam & Luke Grimes have a similar feel.
There was even some crossover in terms of personnel: Taylor Sheridan, co-creator, screenwriter, executive producer, and filmmaker of Yellowstone, played Deputy Police Chief David Hale during Sons of Anarchy, and his co-creator John Linson previously executive directed Sons of Anarchy.
6. Succession
- Director: Jesse Armstrong
- Writer: Jesse Armstrong
- Cast: Hiam Abbass, Nicholas Braun, Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Peter Friedman
- IMDb Ratings: 8.8
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 94%
- Streaming Platform: Hulu, Disney+ Hotstar.
Succession is a nasty fiction about the lifetime of the 1%, focusing on media billionaire Logan Roy (played by Brian Cox and modeled partly on Rupert Murdoch) and his authority-hungry family.
Yellowstone aficionados will see parallels in their numerous secrets and intrigues, even though they are not set in the West. The Roys’ lives are drama material–but the stakes are wealth and prestige rather than death.
The program has been renewed for a season 3 after two seasons on HBO.
5. Dallas
- Director: Leonard Katzman, Michael Preece
- Writer: Leonard Katzman, Arthur Bernard Lewis
- Cast: Larry Hagman, Ken Kercheval, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray
- IMDb Ratings: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 75%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video, Vudu and Google Play Movies
Dallas is the place to go to see the proto-Yellowstone. Yellowstone isn’t shy regarding claiming to be a 21st-century Dallas, with cattle replacing oil. They’re cowboy-hatted soap operas about a wealthy, feuding family with comparable theatrical overtones.
Season 3 of Yellowstone concluded on a cliffhanger akin to “Who Shot J.R.” Yellowstone is designed to feel like a premium cable program, complete with brutal violence, cursing, and nakedness that they could not even get down with on 1980s broadcast television. It could only be the Dallas.
4. Hell or High Water
- Director: David Mackenzie
- Writer: Taylor Sheridan
- Cast: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham
- IMDb Ratings: 7.6
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 97%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix and Prime Videos.
This 2016 crime drama about two boys (Chris Pine and Ben Foster) on a bank-robbing rampage to obtain enough funds to buy back their family’s farm from the bank they’re robbing from is the film wherein Taylor Sheridan became Taylor Sheridan.
For his sophisticated, lived-in script, Sheridan was nominated for an Academy Award, and the film also received accolades for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor for Jeff Bridges, who portrays the weathered Texas Ranger on the boys’ trail.
More importantly, Sheridan’s particular writing voice, which rose to prominence with Yellowstone, was crystallized here, much more than in Sicario, his harsher, more cynical debut script.
Hell or High Water shares several similarities with Yellowstone, including a modern Western setting, a strong feeling of place (in this case, West Texas), a libertarian populism leaning without any apparent political objective, and profanely lyrical Western speech. Sheridan’s formal statement speech has become a touch self-parodic after four installments of Yellowstone, but it still seems original and concentrated here.
Gil Birmingham and Yellowstone’s Thomas Rainwater are among the cast members. And, such as Yellowstone, it’s about individuals fighting to keep their homes and ways of life.
3. Those Who wish me dead
- Director: Taylor Sheridan
- Writer: Michael Koryta, Charles Leavitt, Taylor Sheridan
- Cast: Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Finn Little, Jon Bernthal
- IMDb Ratings: 6.0
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 62%
- Streaming Platforms: Netflix, Prime Videos, and Hulu
Angelina Jolie plays a skydiving firefighter (I know) who meets a little child on the flight from murderers who murdered his father, portrayed by Finn Little, also renowned as Yellowstone’s dirty-shirted abandoned ranch worker Carter. The two assassins following them (acted by Nicholas Hoult and Aidan Gillen) and the raging fires surrounding them hamper her trip to deliver him to safety.
Although this is a film rather than a television show, it should appeal to Yellowstone lovers because co-creator Taylor Sheridan directed it. Those Who Wish Me Dead is extremely important to determine if you like his basic aesthetic.
2. Breaking Bad
- Director: Vince Gilligan
- Writer: Vince Gilligan
- Cast: Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Betsy Brandt
- IMDb Ratings: 9.5
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 96%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, Google Play, and Vudu.
Let me explain: A contemporary Western setting, a family drama centered on a challenging and demanding paternal figure and his deeply confused son, odd random forays into hair-raising viciousness, neo-Nazis, Jeremiah Bitsui, a familiarising that “it’s all beginning to transform out very badly,” and a celebrity who speaks in a throaty growl voice are all present.
Yellowstone misses the ruthlessness of Breaking Bad, but it has many other characteristics.
1. West World
- Director: Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy
- Writer: Jonathan Nolan
- Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Ed Harris
- IMDb Ratings: 8.6
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 81%
- Streaming Platform: Hulu and Prime Video
Our Emmy-winning HBO show was based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 major motion picture, which is about a technologically sophisticated Wild West-themed theme park (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain).
Jonathan Nolan with Lisa Joy’s 2016 series Westworld is set in a fictitious, technologically enhanced amusement park where affluent human guests may play out various Wild West dreams without fear of penalties. Whenever the park’s robot “hosts” defect and start murdering tourists, things get tricky.
The sitcom aired three parts on HBO before being renewed for a season 4 in April 2020. The debut date has yet to be announced.
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