Shows Like
If You Binged Yellowstone, Watch These Next
By Jordan A. · · 2 min read
Yellowstone did something most shows don't manage anymore. It got millions of people who don't usually care about prestige TV to show up every week for a modern western about a family who can't stop making each other's lives worse. That's hard to copy. It's even harder to find the next thing to watch once the prequels run dry.
Here's a real list for Yellowstone fans who've already burned through 1883 and 1923 and are looking for what's next.
The other Taylor Sheridan shows
Mayor of Kingstown is the one most people skip and it shouldn't be. Jeremy Renner in a town built around prisons. Dark, slow, worth it.
Tulsa King puts Sylvester Stallone in Oklahoma as a Brooklyn mob guy starting over. It shouldn't work. It works.
Lioness is Sheridan doing a spy show with Zoe Saldaña and the same gift for tough-guy dialogue.
The real modern westerns
Longmire ran for six seasons and has the same reverence for the land Yellowstone has. Smaller stakes, bigger heart.
Justified is set in Kentucky, not Montana, but it's the same genre in spirit. Elmore Leonard bones, Timothy Olyphant doing the best work of his career.
Hell on Wheels is the railroad-building western AMC put out when nobody was looking. Five seasons and the finale sticks the landing.
Godless is a seven-episode Netflix limited series and it's maybe the best western of the last ten years.
For the family dynasty
Bloodline is a Florida family with secrets and a patriarch and the exact same feeling of watching people make bad choices because they can't imagine another option.
Animal Kingdom is Southern California's answer to Yellowstone. Six seasons, and the Cody family is every bit as mean as the Duttons.
Sons of Anarchy is motorcycles instead of horses, and it's the show that proved broadcast-adjacent TV could do Shakespearean family drama.
If you want the quiet version
Rectify lives in small-town America and pays attention to land and light the way Yellowstone does.
Outer Range is Josh Brolin as a Wyoming rancher with a hole in his pasture that shouldn't be there. It's weirder than Yellowstone but it loves the same country.
American Primeval is the new Netflix western that nobody expected to be as brutal as it is.
For the grown-up crime drama fans
Ozark shares Yellowstone's willingness to let bad people do bad things without flinching.
Narcos: Mexico has the same feeling of a family empire held together by violence and loyalty.
Sorting through fifteen shows is a chore. BingeNext will rank them for you in about thirty seconds based on your taste and what you can actually stream. Drop Yellowstone in as one of your favorites and see what comes back.
The Duttons are a hard act to follow. But the land, the loyalty, and the long memory that make Yellowstone work show up in more places than you'd think.
Topics covered: yellowstone, western, family-drama
About the author
Jordan A., Founder, BingeNext
Jordan A. is the founder of BingeNext and writes every guide on this site. He built the recommendation engine after one too many nights lost to the streaming menu, and he still tests every pick the hard way: by watching it.