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Every Taylor Sheridan TV Show, Ranked
He’s become one of television’s biggest hitmakers thanks a steady stream of shows that offer a stark vision of America.
After spending about 20 years as a character actor — most notably in recurring roles on Veronica Mars and Sons of Anarchy — Sheridan wrote the 2015 drug-war thriller Sicario, followed closely by the 2016 crime-spree drama Hell or High Water and then by the 2017 neo-western Wind River, which he also directed. Billy Bob Thornton stars as Tommy Norris, a fearless Texas oil-company enforcer who handles all the complicated business out in the field — the aging equipment, the exhausted employees, and the often dangerously disgruntled property owners — in order to make life easier for his boss and friend Monty Miller (Jon Hamm). Though it seems on the surface like a sprawling, ambitious saga about a powerful family fighting to hold onto their property and way of life, the story rarely progresses, returning over and over to the same kinds of standoffs between the Duttons and a rotating cast of rivals, usually after an act of explosive violence that has no long-term repercussions.
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