It’s not often that a TV show not only nails the zeitgeist but anticipates it—that zeitgeist being the election of Donald Trump and concomitant rebuke of the Democratic political-cultural agenda. Make that TV shows, plural, all from the ridiculously prolific keyboard of Taylor Sheridan. His massive hit Yellowstone spawned two prequels—1883 and 1923—and five more series: Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King, Lawmen: Bass Reeves, Lioness, and, most recently, Landman. He did all of this in six years, after writing an Oscar-nominated script for a Texas bank-robber movie called Hell or High Water in 2016. If Sheridan told his patron studio, Paramount, that he wanted to do a show about paint drying, they’d find a way to air it. And back up a Brink’s truck to his Texas ranch for the privilege.
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