11 Best Western TV Shows Released in the Past 10 Years

Even though they're set in the past, these shows have something for everyone today: lessons about honor, friendship, and the cost of doing what's right, all wrapped up in stories that keep you coming back for more because you just have to know what happens next.

1. Outer Range ( 2022 – Present)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 79%

In Wyoming, rancher Royal Abbott discovers a mysterious black void on his land amid battling with neighboring landowners, which leads him and his family down a path of supernatural occurrences, unearthing family secrets and a deep-rooted conspiracy.

2. That Dirty Black Bag (2022 – Present)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 80%

Chronicling eight brutal days in the lives of Arthur McCoy, an infamous bounty hunter, and Red Bill, an outlaw he's tracking; their deadly cat-and-mouse game unfolds across the Wild West, revealing their pasts and testing their wills in a savage land.

3. Klondike (2014)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 80%

Best friends Bill Haskell and Byron Epstein brave the treacherous journey to the Yukon during the 1890s gold rush, facing harsh conditions, desperate fortune seekers, and moral dilemmas, in their relentless pursuit of wealth.

4. Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023 – Present)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 81%

The legendary tale of Bass Reeves, the first Black U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi, who navigates the lawless territories with cunning and bravery, capturing some of the most notorious outlaws of the time.

5. Godless (2017)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 83%

Frank Griffin, an outlaw terrorizing the 1880s American West hunting down his partner turned enemy Roy Goode, finds himself in La Belle, a town mysteriously made up almost entirely of women, where tensions rise and pasts collide in a final standoff.

6. Yellowstone ( 2018 – Present)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 84%

The Dutton family, led by patriarch John Dutton, controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, facing constant challenges from land developers, an adjacent Indian reservation, and America's first national park, in a fierce struggle to protect their legacy and way of life.

7. The English (2022 – Present)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 84%

In the 1890s, an Englishwoman embarks on a cross-American journey to seek vengeance for the death of her son, allying with a Pawnee ex-cavalry scout; together, they confront their violent pasts amidst the brutal realities of a nation struggling to birth itself.

8. 1883 (2021 – Present)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 89%

A prequel to Yellowstone, detailing the harrowing journey of the Dutton family, led by James and Margaret Dutton, as they embark west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America, enduring the dangers of the wilderness to seek a better future.

9. Wynonna Earp (2016 – Present)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%

Wynonna Earp, the great-great-granddaughter of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, battles demons and other supernatural beings in the town of Purgatory with her unique abilities and a posse of allies, using her ancestor's famous gun to bring the paranormal to justice.

10. Joe Pickett (2022 – Present)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%

Game warden Joe Pickett and his family navigate the shifting socio-political landscape of their rural town in Wyoming, where they encounter deep-rooted conspiracies, environmental threats, and the eerie mysteries of the wilderness, all while maintaining justice in the face of adversity.

11. Song of the Bandits (2023 – Present)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%

Amidst the turbulence of the Japanese occupation in Korea, a group of bandits, led by a charismatic leader, fights to protect their loved ones, stealing from the Japanese to give to the Korean poor.