“He didn’t miss any episodes”

Taylor Sheridan He changed horses mid-race. His glorious years at Paramount will not extend beyond 2028, when his contract with the studios ends. Therefore, Sheridan goes to Universalwho knows that with the Texan, he hires a one-man band capable of writing several series at the same time. Because no one has to teach Taylor Sheridan to write.

Maybe that’s why it’s a star series, Yellow stonewas the favorite of one of the most renowned American novelists of recent decades, Cormac McCarthy He died in 2023. His death had two consequences: he never won the Nobel Prize in Literature for which he seemed predestined after works like blood meridian, This is not a country for old people either The road; and I couldn’t see the end of Yellow stonea series which, according to its creator Taylor Sheridan, “I didn’t miss any episodes“.

The professor of the new father of the western

Taylor Sheridan is, almost alone, in reviving the only 100% American cinematic genre: the western. Although Yellow stone can only be considered as a spiritual western, like several of his films (notably Wind River), Sheridan saved cowboy and Indian stories in series such as 1883 either 1923.

Among the influences recognized by Sheridan, there is of courseJohn Fordbut also Cormac McCarthycapable of moistening its austere Western narratives, as is the case with This is not a country for old people And The roadboth exceptionally transferred to cinema. As Sheridan admitted in an interview, McCarthy loved Yellow stoneand also the series 1883 And 1923which serve as prequels to the mother fiction, with Kevin Costner.

For Sheridan, it was not only McCarthy’s work that served as an example, but also McCarthy himself. His work ethic was unwavering.: He would sit down to write at 6 a.m. and stop at 8 a.m. Two hours a day, but without a single day of rest.

Taylor Sheridan’s filmography, for someone who hasn’t been on the front lines in over a decade, is very extensive; and if we add the projects that remain to come from the Texan (whether as screenwriter, director or producer; his role as an actor, with which he appeared in front of a camera, is now anecdotal) the story becomes insoluble. Sheridan therefore seems to have learned something from McCarthy’s Stakhanovism.