Netflix just unleashed the Western nobody saw coming — and it’s blowing Yellowstone out of the water. 🔥🐎
Gritty, grimy, and set in the lawless 70s, this George R. R. Martin × Robert Redford creation has been hiding in plain sight for THREE entire seasons… and fans are only now discovering the monster that Netflix “accidentally” buried.
Once you hit play?
Yellowstone feels like the appetizer — this is the full-course chaos.
Dust, blood, betrayal, and the slow-burn tension that keeps you glued for hours.
The sleeper Western of the decade is finally seeing daylight — and viewers are LOSING it.
👇 Full breakdown right here 👇
Netflix adds Western series that Yellowstone fans are branding their next ‘binge-watch’
Amid the Yellowstone drought, fans are tuning into Dark Winds, a western series produced by George R. R. Martin and the late Robert Redford.
Missing Yellowstone? Netflix just served up a worthwhile alternative. Available to watch in the UK, the streamer has added Dark Winds, a 70s-set western series, to its slate, and fans are hooked. First released in 2022, the critically acclaimed drama is based on the Leaphorn & Chee novel series by Tony Hillerman. Executive produced by Graham Roland, Zahn McClarnon, George R. R. Martin and the late Robert Redford, Dark Winds has spawned three seasons, with a fourth currently in development for 2026.
What is Dark Winds about?
Set in the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States, near Monument Valley, Dark Winds takes place in 1971. Introducing fans to Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon), a veteran Tribal Police and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon), an undercover FBI agent assigned as his deputy, the series follows the unlikely duo as they investigate a string of seemingly unrelated crimes across the Navajo reservation.
Missing Yellowstone? Netflix just served up a worthwhile alternative. Available to watch in the UK, the streamer has added Dark Winds, a 70s-set western series, to its slate, and fans are hooked. First released in 2022, the critically acclaimed drama is based on the Leaphorn & Chee novel series by Tony Hillerman. Executive produced by Graham Roland, Zahn McClarnon, George R. R. Martin and the late Robert Redford, Dark Winds has spawned three seasons, with a fourth currently in development for 2026.
What is Dark Winds about?
Set in the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States, near Monument Valley, Dark Winds takes place in 1971. Introducing fans to Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon), a veteran Tribal Police and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon), an undercover FBI agent assigned as his deputy, the series follows the unlikely duo as they investigate a string of seemingly unrelated crimes across the Navajo reservation.
