Yellowstone fans should keep an eye on the Netflix series Territory, which, as the successor to the neo-western, is already being recommended in the trailer as a series about land and family disputes.
While the hit series Yellowstone is coming to an end, several series are already being considered as successors. One of them is even starting on Netflix next month. Territory has not only been given a start date. The streamer has also released the first trailer for the western drama.
Watch the trailer for Territory on Netflix here.
Like Yellowstone: What’s Netflix’s Territory about?
Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan once summarized the plot of his hit series for Deadline as someone owning land and someone else wanting to take it away from them. “[Yellowstone is a series that could take place anywhere],” Sheridan said. The Duttons are the Lawsons in Territory, who defend their patch of earth (the territory that gives the show its title) not in the USA, but in Australia.
As a modern Western that balances tradition (family property, horses, animal husbandry) and the present (helicopters, economic power), Netflix’s Territory shows many parallels to Yellowstone, which were already evident in the first few images. And even more so in the trailer: instead of the Yellowstone ranch, it is the world’s largest cattle ranch, Marianne Station, in the barren wasteland of Australia’s Northern Territory, that is looking for a successor. The faltering family dynasty is not only struggling with internal disputes, but is also being attacked from the outside by rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, indigenous elders and billion Sam Corlett (Vikings: Valhalla), Michael Dorman (Patriot) and Jay Ryan (Beauty and the Beast) are among the cast, alongside Anna Torv