Forget Yellowstone, Taylor Sheridan’s breakthrough crime thriller is still his sharpest script ever

Taylor Sheridan has become one of the defining screenwriters of the last decade. From the Academy Award-nominated Hell or High Water to one of television’s biggest franchises in Yellowstone, few writers have built such a recognizable voice across both movies and TV. Sheridan’s stories are often described as modern Westerns, which is hard to debate given cowboy-adjacent hits like Landman, 1923, and his latest Dutton Ranch. But what truly ties them all together is a fascination with broken institutions, impossible moral choices, and the will to survive in worlds where right and wrong have long since blurred.