Paramount may be acquiring a ton of different IPs if its enormous purchase of WB goes through, but it is committing to maintaining the “Taylor Sherdian-verse” indefinitely, even after the showrunner/creator/writer leaves in a few years. Now, his main series, the now-ended Yellowstone, is launching another spinoff, this one set in the present day and starring one of its key characters. The show is Marshals, and so far, critics are not impressed.
Marshals currently has a quite low Rotten Tomatoes score of a 43% with a handful of reviews in after its March 1 debut. It stars a lead of Yellowstone, Kayce, as things move far, far away from the Yellowstone Ranch. Here’s the synopsis:
“With the Yellowstone Ranch behind him, Dutton joins an elite unit of U.S. Marshals, combining his skills as a cowboy and Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana. Kayce and his teammates — Pete Calvin, Belle Skinner, Andrea Cruz, and Miles Kittle — must balance the high psychological cost of serving as the last line of defense in the region’s war on violence with their duty to their families.”
Kayce brings along his son Tate from Yellowstone, but most of these other names you aren’t going to recognize. One you could is Logan Marshall-Green as team member Pete Calvin, star of Big Sky, Prometheus, and who will appear in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey this year. He’s a good get. Ash Santos, who plays Andrea Cruz, had another run in a Sheridan show, Mayor of Kingstown, for a spell.
There is another high-profile Yellowstone spinoff coming in 2026, Dutton Ranch, which will star core Yellowstone characters Rip and Beth, though we do not yet have a date for it. There is also The Madison, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, which is out in less than two weeks on March 14. That one is a bit odd, as it’s dropping three episodes that day and three the following week. Marshals, meanwhile, is airing week to week.
Marshals does not have audience scores in on Rotten Tomatoes yet, but it is doing decently well on IMDB with its premiere at a 7.7/10, good in the context of that site. Depending on the year, critics sometimes rated Yellowstone seasons higher than audiences, and sometimes lower. They may be on the lower end here, and if that 43% sticks, it will be lower scored than any of Yellowstone’s seasons.
I don’t blame Paramount for trying to keep the Yellowstone flame lit, but what’s mainly happened instead is that a different Sheridan show, Landman, has rocketed to be its most popular, and I wonder if spinoffs could start to peel off that as well in the coming years.
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