Zoe Saldaña in Lioness Season 3Image via Paramount+
2026 has been a benchmark year for Taylor Sheridan so far, as he’s expanded the Yellowstone universe with several new shows while the baseline Kevin Costner-led series continues to shine on Peacock and Paramount+. Sheridan brought back Luke Grimes to play Kayce Dutton in Marshals, the CBS procedural series that was maligned by critics and fans, but still received enough viewers to warrant a Season 2 renewal. CBS has already confirmed that Marshals Season 2 is coming out on October 4. Sheridan also produced another Yellowstone spin-off, Dutton Ranch, starring Cole Hauser as Rip Wheeler and Kelly Reilly as Beth Dutton. Dutton Ranch was met with a much more welcoming reception than Marshals, and it’s also been renewed for Season 2, though there’s no word yet on when it will be released.
Sheridan has new seasons of other popular shows like Tulsa King (starring Sylvester Stallone) and Landman (starring Billy Bob Thornton) in the works, but only the former is expected to be released in 2026. Sheridan’s latest streaming obsession is the third season of Lioness, which premiered about a week ago and has easily claimed the #1 spot in the world on Paramount+. For fans who don’t have a Paramount+ subscription but think they might be interested in Lioness, the first three episodes of the show are available to watch for free on Prime Video. Lioness is a dark ops spy thriller featuring some big names like Zoe Saldaña, Nicole Kidman, and Morgan Freeman, and it’s perfect for fans of Sheridan’s other thrillers like Sicario. He also brings the neo-Western nature of other shows like Yellowstone to all three seasons of Lioness.
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.
Is ‘Lioness’ Getting a Season 4?
Paramount has yet to decide the fate of Lioness beyond Season 3. It took two years to get the third season of Lioness to streaming, and with it being the most ambitious season yet — and we know Sheridan doesn’t go backwards, only forwards — it’s a safe bet that a potential Season 4 would be even bigger and require just as much time, if not more, to make. There are reports claiming that Zoe Saldaña originally signed a three-season deal when she agreed to play Joe in Lioness, and it’s yet to be reported or confirmed if she has re-upped her deal or if this will be the final season.
Check out Lioness on Paramount+ or Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the show.
Release Date
July 23, 2023
Network
Paramount+
Directors
John Hillcoat, Anthony Byrne, Paul Cameron, Stephen Kay, Taylor Sheridan
