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A Lisa Johnson/Tandy Culpepper Review: All Things Taylor Sheridan

Westerns.The public has an insatiable appetite for them, and the television industry has served up a plethora of them.

These are but a few: The Lone Ranger. Wagon Train. Bonanza. Gunsmoke. The Rifleman. Have Gun, Will Travel. Rawhide. Bonanza ran for 14 years, but the longest running series is Gunsmoke which aired for 20 years.

Look up the word prolific in the Merriam Webster dictionary, and you’ll find three definitions.The third may strike you as particularly noteworthy:

marked by abundant inventiveness or productivity

And that definition fits perfectly as it applies to Taylor Sheridan, the creator of such television series as the cowboy drama Yellowstone, which ran for five seasons, and the oil rig drama Landman, which recently has been renewed for a second season. The Taylor Sheridan Universe seems to expand with each passing year. Frankly, I don’t see how he does it.

The Texas denizen, 54, spent his formative years in Ft.Worth and began his career as an actor, but circumstances left him feeling dissatisfied, so he – pun very much intended – took the bull by the horns and turned his attention to writing for the big and small screens. As it turns out, Sheridan is very good at both.

Lisa and Tandy review Sheridan’s small screen empire — including a prominent character or two. If you’ve seen Yellowstone and Landman, see what you think of our assessments. If you haven’t seen them, what are you waiting for?

Published by Tandy Culpepper

I am a veteran broadcast journalist. I was an Army brat before my father retired and moved us to the deep South. I'm talkin' Lower Alabama and Northwest Florida, I graduated from Tate High School and got botha Bachelor's degree and Master's in Teaching English from the University of West Florida, I taught English at Escambia County High School for two years before getting my m's in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Auburn University. Following graduation, I did a 180 degree turn and moved to Birmingham where I began ny broadcasting career at WBIQ, Channel 10. There I was host of a weekly primetime half-hour TV program called Alabama Lifestyles. A year later, I began a stint as a television weathercaster and public affairs host. A year later, I moved to West Palm Beach, Florida and became bureau chief at WPTV, the CBS affiliate. Two years later, I moved to Greensboro, North Carolina where I became co-host of a morng show called AM Carolina. The next year, I moved cross-country and became co-host and story producer at KTVN-TV in Reno, Nevada. I also became the medical reporter for the news department. Three years later, I moved to Louisville, Kentucky and became host and producer of a morning show called today in WAVE Country at WAVE-TV, Channel 3, the NBC affiliate. Following three years there, I moved to Los Angeles and became senior correspondent at the Turner Entertainment Reportn, an internationally-syndicated entertainment entertainment news service owned by CNN. I went back to school afterwards and got an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore. Oh, yes. I won a hundred thousand dollars on the 100 Thousand Dollar Pyramid, then hosted by Dick Clark.

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