Dutton Ranch is not strictly a Yellowstone spinoff; the Paramount+ series takes pains in the first 15 minutes to establish that. And Taylor Sheridan’s fingerprints aren’t so prominent on this show. But creator Chad Feehan is working directly out of the wildly successful Sheridanverse playbook.

Like its sister series Marshals, the aim of Dutton Ranch is capitalizing on the popularity of Yellowstone characters—in this case Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler—while dropping them into different environments. The difference is that while Marshals has a strong procedural element, Dutton Ranch sticks to the Yellowstone franchise’s neo-Western guns. Fans will recognize many different pieces of the series, from the conflicts with other ranchers to the hardships of modern cowboys, and of course, plenty of romance. Feehan may clean the slate in the most obvious way at the beginning, but the bones of both shows are the same.

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Dutton Ranch premieres Friday, May 15 on Paramount+. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Paramount+.

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