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As Taylor Sheridan’s neo-Western hits, including a Yellowstone spin-off, keep on their successful trajectory, fans have been getting familiar with several of the director’s other works. Marshals and The Madison are Sheridan’s latest projects, both released last month and already renewed. The former serves as the fourth series in the Yellowstone universe, led by Luke Grimes, who reprises his role as Kayce Dutton from the mothership. The Madison, on the other hand, was initially developed as another Yellowstone follow-up but ultimately evolved into a standalone series led by Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell.
Before either show arrived on small screens, Sheridan worked on a forgotten crime thriller, not as a director but as a producer, alongside Gary Foster, Russ Krasnoff, and David C. Glasser. Titled Finestkind, the film is a perfect replacement for fans of **Ben ****Affleck’**s 2010 neo-noir thriller, The Town. It was released in 2023 and directed by Brian Helgeland, best known for writing the screenplays for Mystic River and L.A. Confidential; the latter earned him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Three years after a disappointing release, Finestkind is staging a comeback on streaming, receiving all the positive attention it can get. The crime thriller is currently among the most-watched movies on Paramount+, which also houses some of Sheridan’s projects. It has been trending among the top 10 titles in international territories over the past week, including Australia, Argentina, Italy, Mexico, and Costa Rica. And speaking of Sheridan’s projects, Yellowstone, Marshals, and Tulsa King continue to dominate the TV side.
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.
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.
Starring Ben Foster and Toby Wallace, Finestkind is teased as the story of two brothers, scallop fisherman Tom (Foster) and college alumnus Charlie (Wallace), raised in different worlds, who are reunited as adults over a fateful summer. Set against the backdrop of commercial fishing, the story takes on primal stakes when desperate circumstances force the brothers to strike a deal with a violent Boston crime gang. Along the way, a young woman, Mabel (Jenna Ortega), finds herself caught perilously in the middle. The synopsis also mentions that “sacrifices must be made and bonds between brothers, friends, lovers, and a father (Tommy Lee Jones) and his son are put to the ultimate test.”
Finestkind streams on Paramount+. Follow Collider for more streaming recommendations.
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