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The Western is one of the most oversaturated, predictable, and aesthetically exhausted genres on television, and it has been for the majority of the medium’s existence. Any network or producer who wants to make a new show in this space has one episode to prove why they’re different from 70 years of cowboy capers —…

Michael Landon made his first real splash on the big screen in Gene Fowler Jr.’s 1957 drive-in classic “I Was a Teenage Werewolf,” playing Tony Rivers, the teenage werewolf. The film was a hit and led to Landon getting more work in high-profile movies like “High School Confidential!,” “God’s Little Acre,” and  “The Legend of…

RANSOM CANYON SEASON 2. Jack Schumacher as Yancy in Episode 207 of Ransom Canyon Season 2 | Cr. Jeff Neumann/Netflix

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Following in the footsteps of fellow Western smash hits like Yellowstone, streamers are falling in love with Netflix’s Ransom Canyonall over again.

If you loved the mix of melodrama and realism that characterized Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone,” but found yourself hoping for more soap opera shenanigans, then “Ransom Canyon” is for you. A blend of Sheridan’s hit series and ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty,” Netflix’s romantic neo-Western just debuted its second season on the streamer, and subscribers can’t…

After dominating cinemas and television for much of the ’50s and ’60s, the Western genre began to gradually decline throughout the 1970s. Shows that had been on the air for over a dozen seasons ended their runs during the decade, with few to replace them. But television Westerns hadn’t entirely gone the way of the…

This is some pretty rare video from 1964, of a Game 7 between the (then) St. Louis Hawks and the (then) San Francisco Warriors.

The Western supposedly died some time in the 1970s. In reality, the genre merely faded. Westerns will never truly die, as evidenced by the genre’s current renaissance spurred by the Taylor Sheridan-verse. Interestingly enough, Sheridan himself has his own view of why the Western will never die, essentially viewing the post-Civil War era in American…

A new Western drama has galloped straight to the top of Netflix. The series is also sparking a heated debate far beyond its streaming success. The latest adaptation has become one of the platform’s biggest shows in the United States. As more viewers hit play, the show has also ignited lively debates, with fans and…