Shows Like
If You Binged Yellowstone, Watch These Next
By Jordan A. · · Updated · 5 min read
You have finished Yellowstone, and you have done 1883 and 1923 too, so the easy answer is gone. What you are actually looking for is one of three things: land you would kill to keep, a family that runs on grudges, or Taylor Sheridan's particular rhythm of long silences broken by somebody doing something terrible. Different shows deliver different pieces of that, and pretending they are interchangeable is how you end up three episodes into something you hate.
So each pick below says what it shares with Yellowstone, where it diverges, and who it is for. Streaming rights move around constantly, so instead of promising a platform, check the title page on BingeNext for current US options.
More Taylor Sheridan, different flavour
Mayor of Kingstown (Paramount+, 2021 to present, four seasons aired) puts Jeremy Renner in a Michigan prison town as the fixer between inmates, guards, gangs and the people who profit from all three. The Dutton bargaining instinct is here, the mountains are not. It is grimmer than Yellowstone and much more claustrophobic. Take it if the part you liked was John Dutton making deals nobody else could stomach.
Tulsa King (Paramount+, 2022 to present, three seasons aired) is Sylvester Stallone as a New York mobster exiled to Oklahoma to build something from nothing. It is far funnier than Yellowstone and much lighter on its feet, and it is the closest thing on this list to a comfort watch. Choose it when you want the empire-building without the family trauma.
Landman (Paramount+, 2024 to present, two seasons aired) trades cattle for West Texas oil, with Billy Bob Thornton as a crisis manager standing between roughnecks and boardrooms. Same interest in who actually owns the ground, same fondness for monologues. It is more corporate and more profane. Good if the business side of the ranch was your favorite thread.
Modern westerns with the same bones
Justified (FX, 2010 to 2015, six seasons) is a US marshal sent back to the Kentucky hills he grew up in, where every criminal is somebody he went to school with. That is Yellowstone's core problem, loyalty to a place that ruins you, played as a crackling character piece instead of a dynastic saga. Sharper dialogue than anything on this list. Start with it if you can only start with one.
Longmire (2012 to 2017, six seasons, three on A&E and three as a Netflix original) is a Wyoming sheriff working cases across ranch country and the Cheyenne reservation next door. Slower and gentler, more mystery than melodrama, and the landscape does a lot of the acting. It suits people who want the setting without the body count.
Dark Winds (AMC, 2022 to present, four seasons aired) follows Navajo Tribal Police in 1970s New Mexico, adapted from Tony Hillerman's novels. It is tight, six to eight episodes a season, and it is the best-looking show here. The politics of land are front and center in a way Yellowstone only gestures at.
Godless (Netflix, 2017, seven episodes) is a limited series about a mining town left almost entirely to women after a disaster, and the outlaw gang riding toward it. It is a straight period western rather than a contemporary one, and it is finished, which some of you will consider the main selling point.
Family empires that eat their own
Animal Kingdom (TNT, 2016 to 2022, six seasons) is a Southern California crime family run by a matriarch who is every bit as ruthless as John Dutton and considerably less sentimental. Surf and heists instead of cattle and land, but the wiring, sons competing for a parent's approval by doing felonies, is identical. Probably the most direct emotional match on this list.
Hell on Wheels (AMC, 2011 to 2016, five seasons) follows a former Confederate soldier working the transcontinental railroad as it grinds west. It is about the violence of building something, which is the argument Yellowstone keeps circling. Rougher and more episodic in its early going, and it improves.
Deadwood (HBO, 2004 to 2006, three seasons plus a 2019 film) is the best-written show in this entire category and the least like Yellowstone tonally. A gold camp turns itself into a town while Ian McShane's saloon owner manipulates everyone in extraordinary sentences. If you want land, greed and law arriving late, this is the ceiling.
Outer Range (Prime Video, 2022 to 2024, two seasons) is a Wyoming ranch family in a border war with their neighbors, except there is a hole in the west pasture that does something to time. Josh Brolin plays it completely straight. It is the strangest thing here and it will either delight you or lose you by episode three.
The English (BBC Two and Prime Video, 2022, six episodes) sends an Englishwoman across 1890 Wyoming looking for the man who killed her son, alongside a Pawnee former cavalry scout. Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer are excellent and it is shot like a film rather than a series. It is the most stylised thing on this list and the shortest, and it says more about who the land was taken from than Yellowstone ever attempts.
One thing to know before you pick
Sheridan writes a lot of television, and the shows above are not equally good. Mayor of Kingstown takes about four episodes to find its shape, Landman is at its weakest when it stops to explain the oil business, and Tulsa King is closer to a comedy than the marketing suggests. If you go in expecting Yellowstone with a new coat of paint you will be annoyed. If you go in for the same preoccupations, land, loyalty and men who solve problems badly, all three deliver.
Where to start
If you want more Sheridan specifically, go Mayor of Kingstown for the darkness or Tulsa King for the fun. If you want the best show rather than the closest match, Justified or Deadwood. If you want a family that destroys itself over an inheritance, Animal Kingdom. If you want something you can finish in a weekend, Godless.
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Topics covered: yellowstone, western, family-drama
About the author
Jordan A., Founder, BingeNext
Jordan A. is the founder of BingeNext and is responsible for every guide published on this site. He built the recommendation engine after one too many nights lost to the streaming menu. Dates, season counts and where-to-watch details in these guides are checked against official sources before publishing, and corrections are welcome at Jordan@Bingenext.com.