Lawmen: Bass Reeves hits Netflix in June. Taylor Sheridan’s historical western drama first premiered on November 5, 2023, and this move gives the eight-episode series a wider streaming audience.
Across those eight episodes, the show follows Bass Reeves from enslavement to life as a formidable lawman. It presents him as the first Black U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi and credits him with more than 3,000 arrests. There’s plenty of big frontier action, but the series also stays focused on character, and it holds up on its own instead of leaning too heavily on those early 1883 spinoff roots.
David Oyelowo stars and executive produces after spending nearly a decade helping get the project made. Chad Feehan created the series. Taylor Sheridan also serves as an executive producer, while Dennis Quaid, Lauren E. Banks, and Donald Sutherland round out the cast. And if you’ve seen Hayley Atwell mentioned anywhere, she isn’t part of the main cast.
The show draws from the first two books in Sidney Thompson’s Bass Reeves Trilogy. It does take some creative liberties, though critics were largely positive about Oyelowo’s performance, the ensemble, and the way the series handles race, justice, faith, violence, family duty, and American Indian representation.
If you’re in the mood for a character-rich western that sits outside the usual Yellowstone orbit, Lawmen: Bass Reeves is well worth picking up, even if no follow-up Lawmen chapter has been officially announced.
You’ll be able to watch Lawmen: Bass Reeves on Netflix in June, or on Paramount+, where the series originally launched.
Author: Jesús Bosque
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