Taylor Sheridan's Fallen World

Each 21st century Taylor Sheridan hero fights for ideals in reality’s gray landscape. Sicario offers a hard look at the drug trade, questioning whether a man can be a hero when he himself does heinous things. Hell or High Water displays an economic system that punishes the generational poor encouraging anti-hero brothers to steal to balance the financial scales. The Mayor of Kingstown shows the defects of the prison system and explores the volatility of holding a tension between good and evil, where the definitions of those terms are anything but clear. Wind River calls to account those who would forget the marginalized, specifically, missing Native American women for whom no ledger is kept. Sheridan always shows a desire for universal ideals—what he calls “transcendent” concerns–in tension with the hard realities of life.