FX's 10/10 Western With Near-Perfect RT Score Will Age Better Than Yellowstone

The 2020s have quietly become a golden era for TV Westerns, with prestige dramas reclaiming the genre’s mythic weight and moral complexity. At the center of that revival stands Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone , a cultural juggernaut that turned modern ranching into must-watch television and reshaped what mainstream audiences expect from Western storytelling.

Yellowstone ’s success is undeniable , spawning multiple spinoffs and proving that dusty genre labels still carry enormous commercial power. Yet as dominant as its influence has been, the show did not emerge in a vacuum. Years before Sheridan’s saga wrangled the cultural zeitgeist, another series laid much of the groundwork for this renaissance.

With a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score and a fiercely loyal fanbase more than a decade