So you watched Yellowstone. You came for the cowboy hats and the sweeping Montana vistas. You stayed for the family drama. Then, somewhere around the third dramatic murder, you started wondering whether you’d accidentally signed up for a crime documentary with really nice horses.

You are not alone. Plenty of viewers love the ranch, the scenery, and the legacy, yet they could happily skip the body count. So what if you want to keep the wide open fields, the cowboy hats, and the family drama, but drop the murders, the revenge plots, and the occasional war crime?

Clarkson’s Farm: All the Ranching, Almost None of the Homicide

Here’s the curveball. The best Yellowstone alternative might not be a drama at all. Instead, it might be a 65-year-old British man arguing with local government about a gravel driveway.

Clarkson’s Farm follows former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson as he attempts to run Diddly Squat Farm despite a documented allergy to manual labor. Consequently, you get escaped sheep, baffling bureaucracy, robot tractors, and Kaleb Cooper reacting to all of it. Furthermore, you get genuine stakes, because real farms really do live or die on a single harvest.

In other words, it scratches the same itch Yellowstone does. You get people building something, protecting a legacy, and solving impossible problems. You simply lose the part where someone ends up in a ravine. With VidAngel, you can filter the foul language that tends to spike whenever a tractor breaks down, so the funny stays funny.

Shows Like Yellowstone (For People Who Don’t Actually Want Yellowstone)

Most “shows like Yellowstone” lists hand you the obvious suspects: 1883, 1923, Dutton Ranch, Landman, The Madison, and Marshals. The problem? Several of those keep the exact intensity you were trying to escape. As a result, you end up right back where you started, just with a different decade in the title.

Therefore, ask yourself one question. What did you actually like about Yellowstone? If the answer was the violence, carry on, and VidAngel can still help you skip the parts that go too far. However, if the answer was the building, the legacy, the family dynamics, and the thrill of watching people solve impossible problems, then the weirdest replacement on this list is also the best one.

That’s right. It’s still Clarkson’s Farm.

Ready to Watch It Your Way with VidAngel?

Ultimately, you shouldn’t have to choose between a show you love and a viewing experience that fits your standards. VidAngel adds a filtering layer to titles like Clarkson’s Farm, so you can mute or skip the language and keep all the chaos. Start your free trial and watch the sheep escape in peace.

Here’s how to get started with VidAngel:

1. Sign up for VidAngel
2. Set your default filters based on what you typically want to skip
3. Customize for each show depending on who’s watching
4. Press play and actually enjoy movie night

New to VidAngel? Learn how VidAngel filtering works

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If you’ve never seen Yellowstone and someone told you to “get into the Taylor Sheridan universe,” you probably looked it up and immediately thought, why is there livestock lore?

So here’s the easy version.

Start with Yellowstone. Always. That’s the main story. John Dutton runs the largest ranch in Montana and spends five seasons fighting off developers, politicians, the reservation, and sometimes his own children. It’s the center of the whole thing.

After that, go back to 1883. That’s the origin story. It’s how the Duttons got to Montana in the first place, and it’s way less “ranch empire” and way more “cross-country survival with devastating consequences.”

Then watch 1923. Same family, next generation. Now it’s Prohibition, early economic collapse, and the ongoing family tradition of suffering beautifully while fighting for the same land.

Then you’ve got Marshals. This one is directly tied in because it follows Kayce Dutton after Yellowstone, as he joins a specialized U.S. Marshals unit in Montana. This is actual Yellowstone fallout with a badge.

And yes, there’s more coming, because apparently Taylor Sheridan looked at one hit franchise and said, “what if we made ranches endless?”

Dutton Ranch premiered on May 15, 2026 and continues Beth and Rip’s story in South Texas. 1944 is reported to be in active development. And 6666 is still part of the broader Yellowstone franchise plans as well.

So honestly, you can watch these in whatever order you want. No one is coming to quiz you. But if you want the cleanest path, do this:

Yellowstone → 1883 → 1923 → Marshals → Dutton Ranch

(BONUS: Here’s the ultimate watch guide to Taylor Sheridan shows)

Also, quick warning if you’ve never watched Sheridan before: he does not hold back. These shows can get very heavy, very fast, with language, violence, and nudity showing up when you are just trying to watch people argue about land.

That’s where VidAngel helps. It lets you customize what gets filtered, so instead of it being all or nothing, you can mute the language, skip nudity, and filter the violence based on what you actually want to keep in. That way you can follow the family tree, the betrayals, and the land wars without getting blindsided every episode.

Because figuring out this universe is already enough work. You don’t also need surprise trauma from a cowboy.

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It doesn’t have to be that way.

Watching a clean version of a movie or show is easier than you think. You don’t need to research every title before you press play. You don’t need to hover over the fast-forward button. And you definitely don’t need to give up on great entertainment just because it comes with content you’d rather skip.

What “Clean Version” Actually Means

A clean version isn’t a dumbed-down version. It’s not a censored version either. It’s simply your version.

Maybe you want to watch a gritty crime drama without the f-bombs. Maybe you love a particular romance series but skip the explicit scenes. Or maybe you’re watching with kids and want to cut the violence without losing the story.

A clean version means you decide what stays and what goes. The plot remains intact. The characters remain intact. You just remove the parts that don’t work for you.

Why Clean Versions Are Hard to Find

Streaming platforms don’t offer filtering options. Netflix, Prime Video, and others give you the content as is. What you see is what you get.

You could research every title before watching. But those guides are written for everyone. Their definition of “mild” might be very different from yours.

You could fast-forward through uncomfortable scenes. But that means spoiling what’s coming. It means awkward pauses in the middle of a movie night. And it means you have to be paying close attention every single second.

None of these solutions actually solve the problem. They just manage it badly.

A Better Way to Watch

With VidAngel filtering, you can get a clean version of movies or shows from your existing streaming services. It works with Netflix, Prime Video, Peacock, Paramount+, Apple TV, and more.

Here’s how it works. You connect VidAngel to your streaming accounts. You set your filter preferences once (and you can always adjust later, if you want). Then VidAngel automatically skips or mutes whatever you’ve chosen to filter.

You’re not editing the content. You’re simply watching the same movie or show with your preferences applied automatically in real time. Think of it like a preprogrammed remote, muting the words you don’t want to hear and skipping the scenes you don’t want to see.

What You Can Filter

VidAngel gives you granular control over five main content categories.

Profanity is one of the most commonly filtered categories. You can filter all foul language broadly or get specific. Want to mute f-words and crude jokes but keep mild profanity? You can do that. Want to filter blasphemy specifically? That’s an option too. Want to only mute 3 of the 24 s-words? Well, sure, you can do that, too. 

Intimacy and Nudity are other major categories. You can filter explicit scenes, nudity, or sexual content at whatever level feels right for you and whoever is in the room.

Violence and gore are filterable too. Some people love action movies but skip the most graphic moments. VidAngel lets you do exactly that without losing the tension or excitement of the story.

Other content includes things like drug use, drinking, and smoking. These are filterable as well, giving you a genuinely comprehensive set of options.

Filtering Works on the Shows You Already Love

This isn’t a separate streaming library of pre-cleaned titles. VidAngel works on the content you’re already watching on services you already pay for.

That means your favorite drama on Netflix. The thriller you’ve been meaning to watch on Prime Video. The new series everyone is talking about on Peacock. Filtered to your preferences.

You don’t have to choose between great content and comfortable viewing. You can have both.

Watching With Family Just Got Easier

One of the biggest benefits of filtered viewing is family movie night. Pre-screening a movie takes time. Fast-forwarding is clumsy and ruins surprises. And some content is simply too difficult to explain to younger kids in the moment.

With VidAngel, you set your filters once. From that point forward, every title you watch through VidAngel applies those preferences automatically. No prep work. No hovering over the remote. Just the story.

You can also adjust your filters title by title. Watching something with the whole family on Friday? Set stricter filters. Watching something solo on Saturday night? Adjust accordingly. The control is always yours.

The Content You Love, the Way You Want It

Great entertainment shouldn’t come with an asterisk. You shouldn’t have to tolerate content you don’t want just to access a story you love.

Watching a clean version of any movie or show isn’t about avoiding great entertainment. It’s about accessing it on your own terms. The plot twists, the performances, the moments that make a great story great—those all stay exactly where they belong.

The parts you never wanted? Those are gone.

That’s what VidAngel does. 

What VidAngel Users Are Saying

“I have VidAngel and I love it! I finally get to watch Yellowstone without the filthy talk. If you don’t mind the language, then watch it unfiltered. We all have the right to choose what we want. Some of us choose the clean version. I won’t judge you for your choices so please don’t judge me for mine.”
– Gail

“We just downloaded [VidAngel] and watched [Top Gun:] Maverick with our kids – wonderful to have a clean version of a film! Impressed and we will continue subscribing!!”
– Kelly

“We are really enjoying this fascinating storyline [The Night Agent] and great actors. Thank you for proving clean entertainment is very entertaining!!”
– Priscilla 

“Oh yay! We love Spirited so much but there’s some stuff that I’d love to clean up in it. Stuff not even necessary to the story that often disrupts the sincere good messages of the movie. Thanks VidAngel.”
– Jenna

“Every Friday after school I would take the kids to rent a movie. … I wanted them to experience the movies I watched as a kid. But as a kid myself we didn’t have much money growing up so back then we didn’t see the movies until they were shown on TV and consequently cleaned up. When showing them to my kids I was shocked at the foul language in ‘kids’ movies. Thus the search began for filtering. VidAngel truly was an answered prayer.”
– Bruce

Ready to get started?

Here’s how to get started with VidAngel:

1. Sign up for VidAngel
2. Set your default filters based on what you typically want to skip
3. Customize for each show depending on who’s watching
4. Press play and actually enjoy movie night

New to VidAngel? Learn how VidAngel filtering works

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The Taylor Sheridan universe is… a lot. Like “wait, is this the same ranch?” a lot. Between prequels, sequels, spinoffs, and shows that feel like they should be connected but technically aren’t, it’s easy to get lost somewhere between Montana and an oil rig in Texas.

So if you’ve ever asked yourself, “Do I need a flowchart to watch these in order?”—don’t worry. We made one (mentally). Here’s your complete, no-nonsense, slightly sarcastic guide to Taylor Sheridan shows so you can finally say, “Yes, I’ve seen them all.” Or at least pretend you have.

Yellowstone (Where It All Started)

Welcome to the main event. The one that launched a thousand cowboy hats.

Yellowstone follows the Dutton family, led by the ever-intimidating John Dutton, as they fight to protect the largest contiguous ranch in the U.S. from… basically everyone. Land developers, political forces, neighboring reservations, and yes—even a national park.

Expect: Family drama, power struggles, and more violence than your average “ranch life” TikTok.

1883 (The Prequel That Hurts Your Feelings)

Before Yellowstone, there was… suffering. Lots of it.

1883 tracks the Dutton family’s brutal journey across the Great Plains to Montana. It’s less “fun Western adventure” and more “wow, this is emotionally devastating and also historically intense.”

Expect: Wagon trains, heartbreak, and a deep appreciation for modern plumbing.

1923 (Trauma, But Make It Generational)

Because one Dutton timeline simply wasn’t enough.

Set in the early 20th century, 1923 shows the family battling pandemics, drought, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. You know, just a casual list of life challenges.

Expect: High-stakes survival, generational drama, and the realization that being a Dutton is… not relaxing.

The Madison (Feelings in the Mountains)

A shift from chaos to something a little more… reflective.

The Madison centers on a New York City family navigating grief and connection in Montana’s Madison River Valley.

Expect: Slower pacing, emotional storytelling, and fewer shootouts (probably).

Marshals (Kayce Gets a New Job)

Because one Dutton spinoff wasn’t enough.

This series follows Kayce Dutton after his time on the ranch as he joins an elite U.S. Marshals unit. Think cowboy meets Navy SEAL meets law enforcement.

Expect: Action, internal conflict, and the ongoing theme of “can this man ever just have a peaceful day?”

Landman (Cowboys, But With Oil Money)

Same intensity, different dirt.

Set in West Texas oil boomtowns, Landman dives into the world of roughnecks and billionaires chasing fortune. It’s an upstairs/downstairs story—if “upstairs” had private jets and “downstairs” had oil rigs.

Expect: Big money, bigger egos, and a crash course in how oil shapes literally everything.

Tulsa King (Fish-Out-of-Water Mafia Edition)

What happens when you drop a New York mob boss into Oklahoma? Chaos. Obviously.

After 25 years in prison, Dwight “The General” Manfredi is sent to Tulsa to start fresh. Instead, he builds a brand-new criminal empire with a crew that probably wasn’t in the original business plan.

Expect: Crime, dark humor, and a lot of “this is not how we did things in New York.”

Mayor of Kingstown (Everyone Needs Therapy)

Set in a Michigan town where prisons are basically the economy, this show follows the McClusky family—aka the unofficial middlemen between inmates, cops, and politicians.

Expect: Heavy themes, moral gray areas, and the overwhelming urge to take a deep breath afterward.

Special Ops: Lioness (Spy Drama, But Make It Intense)

This one trades cowboy boots for covert operations.

The series follows Cruz Manuelos, a Marine recruited into a CIA program to infiltrate terrorist networks. It’s high-stakes, high-tension, and very much not a “watch while folding laundry” kind of show.

Expect: Espionage, emotional depth, and constant stress (in a good way?).

So… Where Should You Start?

If you want the “proper” experience:

• Start with 1883 → 1923 → Yellowstone

If you want the “I just want drama immediately” experience:

• Start with Yellowstone and emotionally spiral from there

If you want something adjacent but not ranch-heavy:

• Try Tulsa King or Mayor of Kingstown

You’re Welcome

The Taylor Sheridan universe is sprawling, dramatic, and occasionally overwhelming—but that’s part of the appeal. Whether you’re here for the cowboys, the crime, or the chaos, there’s something for everyone.

And if you’re wondering, “Is all of this content actually something I want to watch?”—that’s where VidAngel comes in. 

Because watching TV shouldn’t require emotional recovery time… unless you choose it.

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Lawmen: Bass Reeves

Summary: About the legendary lawman Bass Reeves, one of the greatest frontier heroes and one of the first Black deputy U.S. marshals west of the Mississippi River in American history.

Rated: TV-MA

Starring: David Oyelowo, Dennis Quaid, Joaquina Kalukango, Bill Dawes

Yellowstone

Summary: A ranching family in Montana faces off against others encroaching on their land.

Rated: TV-MA

Starring: Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley

Reviews:

• “I love the importance of family in Yellowstone. That no family is perfect.” -Daren
• “One of the best western shows, but I definitely couldn’t watch without VidAngel.” -Jess
• “You don’t miss anything watching Yellowstone with VidAngel!” -Andrew

Wondering what it’s like to watch Yellowstone without the profanity? https://blog.vidangel.com/yellowstone-without-profanity-nudity-and-gore/

1883

Summary: The post-Civil War generation of the Dutton family travels to Texas, and joins a wagon train undertaking the arduous journey west to Oregon. Before settling in Montana to establish what would eventually become the Yellowstone Ranch.

Rated: TV-MA

Starring: Tim McGraw, Sam Elliott, Faith Hill, Isabel May

Reviews:

• “I love watching Yellowstone and 1883 without the profanity and inappropriate scenes.” -Ruby
• “I appreciate [Yellowstone] all the more after watching the prequels, especially 1883! It makes the story of the Dutton family so sweet to know that they’ve hung on that long. Also, can we talk about how cool all the cowboys are!” -Danny
• “1883. Definitely worth filtering and streaming.” -Destiny

1923

Summary: The Duttons face a new set of challenges in the early 20th century. The rise of Western expansion, Prohibition, and the Great Depression.

Rated: TV-MA

Starring: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Brandon Sklenar, Julia Sclaepfer

Reviews:

• “The show itself is freaking amazing. I am so hooked with that, 1883 and 1923.” -Adelle
• “We just watched 1923 & are so grateful we can remove all the unnecessary nudity!” -Layna

Billy the Kid

Summary: An epic romantic adventure based on the life of Billy the Kid. From his humble Irish roots and his early days as a cowboy and gunslinger in the American frontier, to his pivotal role in the Lincoln County War and beyond.

Rated: TV-MA

Starring: Tom Blyth, Daniel Webber, Sean Owen Roberts, Dakota Daulby

Joe Pickett

Summary: Follows a game warden and his family during a changing political and socioeconomic climate in a small rural town.

Rated: TV-14

Starring: Michael Dorman, Julianna Guill, Sharon Lawrence, Mustafa Speaks

Outer Range

Summary: A rancher fighting for his land and family discovers an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness.

Rated: TV-MA

Starring: Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots, Lili Taylor, Shaun Sipos

Reviews:

• “I finished watching Outer Range…..weirdly awesome!” -Jesse

Lonesome Dove

Summary: A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.

Rated: TV-14

Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Lane, Chris Cooper, Ricky Schroder, Robert Urich

That Dirty Black Bag

Summary: The 8-day clash between Arthur McCoy — an incorruptible sheriff with a troubled past — and Red Bill, an infamous, solitary bounty hunter known for decapitating his victims and stuffing their heads into a dirty black bag.

Rated: TV-MA

Starring: Rose Williams, Travis Fimmel, Niv Sultan, Douglas Booth, Aiden Gillen

Territory

Summary: When the world’s largest cattle station is left without a clear heir, rival factions descend as a fierce generational struggle upends the land’s future.

Rated: TV-MA

Starring: Ana Torv, Sam Corlett, Philippa Northeast, Michael Dorman, Jay Ryan

Hell on Wheels

Summary: The Civil War is past, but former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon can’t put it behind him. Fresh are the memories of the death of his wife, killed at the hands of the Union soldiers, an act that sets him on a course of revenge.

Rated: TV-14

Starring: Anson Mount, Colm Meaney, Robin McLeavy, Phil Burke

The English

Summary: A woman seeks revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.

Rated: TV-MA

Starring: Emily Blunt, Chaske Spencer, Stephen Rea, Tom Hughes

Frontier

Summary: Follows Declan Harp, a half-Irish/half-Cree Native-Canadian outlaw. Harp is campaigning to breach the Hudson’s Bay Company’s monopoly on the fur trade in Canada.

Rated: TV-MA

Starring: Jason Momoa, Landon Liborion, Zoe Boyle, Greg Bryk

Reviews:

• “FRONTIER SERIES! SO good! I can’t believe we have only just discovered it! I’ve added it to my list of fav. series. We all think it should be given higher ratings than it was given. Binge-worthy for sure. The one thing though- is we never use the gore filters but for this one esp. after last night’s episode in season 2 I’m thinking it’d be good.” -Rachelle

Godless

Summary: In the 1880s American West, a murderous outlaw gang leader Frank Griffin hunts for ex-protege Roy Goode. Frank’s chase leads him to La Belle, New Mexico–a town inhabited, after a mining disaster, almost entirely by women.

Rated: TV-MA

Starring: Jack O’Connell, Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Merritt Wever

This list of the best of the best Western TV shows is just the tip of the iceberg. Check out more here.

Originally published 11/10/2023
Post updated 2/26/2025

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