Not long ago, television was filled with lawyers of all kinds. From high-profile, flashy corporate titans like on Suits to high-powered ones navigating complex situations like on Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, legal dramas were some of the most era-defining shows. The 2020s haven’t featured legal dramas as often, but the tide has slowly turned over the last few years as more streaming services and networks return to this storytelling staple. And the appetite for legal shows has been repeatedly proven by the success and popularity of Netflix’s smash hitThe Lincoln Lawyer.
The legal thriller based on Michael Connelly‘s books has remained one of the streamer’s top-performing shows, securing a spin-off ahead of a planned conclusion. It follows Mikey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), a high-powered defense attorney in Los Angeles navigating highly complicated cases. Even networks like USA Network have returned to legal dramas with The Rainmaker. The series follows a small team of brilliant attorneys who use their skills to defend the vulnerable. Hulu is also developing a legal thriller starring Elisabeth Moss, who plays a lawyer defending a client accused of murder while dealing with blackmail.
The next network tapping into this audience is ABC. Deadline has reported that the network is developing Con Law, an original legal drama. The series blends elements from several other legal dramas. Con Law resembles Suits by focusing on a brilliant, high-powered corporate attorney. Like Haller, she finds herself on the darker side of the law when she is wrongfully convicted of murdering someone close to her: her husband. This turn of events costs her everything — her freedom, her career, her daughter. Six years later, she gets her resurrection walk when she is exonerated. Instead of returning to practicing corporate law, she joins a scrappy defense firm like the one Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan) finds himself in and translates her ruthless corporate skills into defending the vulnerable. She is also looking into her husband’s murder to figure out what really happened.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
Who Is Behind ‘Con Law’
Joey Falco wrote and executive-produced the series. Known for writing on shows like Sleepy Hollow and Treadstone, Falco is also a published author with his debut novel Blood on the Vine coming out in 2025. He is also an executive producer and showrunner, having done the latter on the CW show Charmed. He has other projects in development at Netflix and Amazon. Jordan Cerf is also an executive producer. Con Law is still in the early stages of development, so casting hasn’t been announced, but if ABC greenlights the series, that news should be breaking soon.
