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While there have been tons of great Western TV series over the years, the legendary John Wayne rarely appeared on the small screen. Most of the time he was on TV, he was playing himself rather than acting in character. There was one notable exception, though: an episode of the highly influential series “Wagon Train.”

Two genres that meld together better than you might expect are Westerns and science fiction, to the point the “space Western” is its own mini-genre. Both genres tap into living on an unexplored frontier where a freer life goes hand in hand with a more dangerous one. We’ve explored all there is to see on…

Turning on Netflix at any given moment can feel … overwhelming. There are so many options in front of you, and for years now, Netflix has been dominating the streaming landscape with a ton of original movies and TV shows. If you want to hone in on a more specific genre, though, how about Westerns, one…

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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…

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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…