Such is the roaring success of Yellowstone, the neo-Western TV series documenting all the drama at the Dutton family ranch in Montana, that it has birthed a seemingly endless spin-off universe.

Some of them have already aired – 1922 and 1883 – but many more are reportedly in various stages of production. There’s the as-yet-unnamed Beth and Rip Wheeler series, alongsid

 

 

There’s gold in them hills! Black Hills, Dakota, specifically. This mid-00s HBO series transports viewers back to the lawless town of Deadwood during the gold rush in the 1870s; a place of hard-drinking, gambling and fighting, hosting all kinds of magnificent bastards. Take Al Swearengen (Ian McShane), or Francis Wolcott (​Garret Dillahunt): truly great TV villains. It’s also one of the most sweariest TV shows of all time – someone once calculated that the word “fuck” is said 43 times in the first hour of the show, and continues with an f-bomb on average 1.56 times every minute.

 

 

Former Skins star Jack O’Connell was about as far removed from Bristol’s nu-rave scene as possible in this 2007 series about Roy Goode, a young outlaw in 1884, who ends up in a New Mexico town populated almost entirely by women. There’s more prestige British talent in the shape of Michelle Dockery, who plays Alice, a widowed ranch-owner who becomes Roy’s love interest. What’s interesting about Godless is that it switches up the traditionally male-dominated genre of the Western to be more female-fronted, and with it, shoots apart tropes and cliches more generally associated with other production set in this old-fashioned era.

From the writer of The Revenant, Netflix’s American Primeval – set during the 1857 Utah War – was always going to be a savage, no-holds-barred tale, especially when the inspiration for this series was taken from a real-life massacre. Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin star as Utah-dwelling folk pulled into the violent clash of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,who, with the Utah Territorial Militia and some Paiute, murdered 120 people on the Baker–Fancher wagon train. Playing out over just six episodes, we previously recommended steering clear of a binge-watch on this one, due to its hyper-violent scenes that play out “like experiencing a nightmare” – and we’d still stand by that today.

 

e Y: Marshals, The Madison, 6666 and 1944, which all must be keeping prolific showrunner Taylor Sheridan extremely busy. It also highlights the ongoing viewers’ thirst for a good ol’ Western yarn.

But where can you get a hit of rolling hills, smoky mountains and dueling Stetsons at dawn before they all arrive? Saddle up, because there’s plenty out there. Here’s our pick of the very best alternatives to stream right now.