The Madison

Series Similar to The Madison

If you enjoyed The Madison, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. 1883

   2021 · Drama, Adventure, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8.8), also on Paramount+.

   1883 follows the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It is a stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America's promised land - Montana.

2. 1923

   2022 · Drama, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8.1), also on Paramount+.

   1923 focuses on the Dutton family's next two generations as they struggle to survive historic drought, lawlessness and prohibition, and an epidemic of cattle theft; all battled beneath the cloud of Montana's great depression, which preceded the nation by almost a decade.

3. Godless

   2017 · Drama, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8).

   A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who's found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.

4. Yellowstone

   2018 · Drama, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Yellowstone follows the Dutton family, led by John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, under constant attack by those it borders — land developers, an Indian reservation, and America's first National Park. It is an intense study of a violent world far from media scrutiny — where land grabs make developers billions, and politicians are bought and sold by the world's largest oil and lumber corporations. Where drinking water poisoned by fracking wells and unsolved murders are not news: they are a consequence of living in the new frontier. It is the best and worst of America seen through the eyes of a family that represents both.

5. Crossroad Springs

   2025 · Drama, Family, Western · returning

   Recommended for similar Family / Western profile.

   The Hamilton family faces financial struggles and staffing shortages on Hamilton Ranch. Pastor James and Janet return to help the family, encountering a generational feud between the family owners. James starts a cowboy church on the farm, where faith, family, and ranch life are intertwined, despite the lack of worship spaces on the vast farmland.

6. How the West Was Won

   1977 · Drama, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Family Macahan's is the story of the white man's conquest of the American West, which we follow through family Macahan valiant struggle for survival. It is the story of mountain men who went west to explore the world beyond the next river bend, the fur trappers who nearly extinct buffalo herds, the gold graves searching for El Dorado, about peasants who became wealthy landowners and the simple people who were on the run. There is also a story about the American Indians. Brave and fearless, but hopelessly outnumbered, these primitive people were the ultimate losers in the battle for land in the west.

7. Justified

   2010 · Drama, Crime, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8.7).

   Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is something of a 19th century-style officer in modern times, whose unconventional enforcement of justice makes him a target with criminals and a problem for his superiors in the U.S. Marshals Service. As a result of an eager but "justified" shooting of a Miami fugitive while on assignment in Florida, Givens is reassigned to Lexington, Kentucky, in a district that includes his hometown of Harlan, a rural mining town in the east of the state.

8. Longmire

   2012 · Drama, Thriller, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8.3).

   Longmire, a contemporary crime thriller set in Big Sky country, is based on the Walt Longmire Mystery novels by best-selling author Craig Johnson. It focuses on a Wyoming sheriff who's rebuilding his life and career following the death of his wife.

9. Westworld

   2016 · Drama, Science-Fiction, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8.2).

   Westworld is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

10. Joe Pickett

    2021 · Drama, Western · ended

    Recommended for similar Western profile, also on Paramount+.

    Joe Pickett follows a game warden and his family as they navigate the changing political and socio-economic climate in a small rural town in Wyoming. Surrounded by rich history and vast wildlife, the township hides decades of schemes and secrets that are yet to be uncovered.