Marshals fans, look out, because the upcoming season plans to change things up. Those hoping that the show will further explore the personal lives of Kayce Dutton’s (Luke Grimes) new teammates are in luck, as the CBS series is making strides in that direction. While the first season no doubt rode off the success of Yellowstone, Marshals continues due to the efforts of fans who have flocked to this new corner of Taylor Sheridan‘s complex neo-Western world — and Season 2 looks to be even better now that Morgan Lindholm‘s Maddie will have an expanded role.
‘Marshals’ Season 2 Plans To Bridge Cal’s Personal and Professional Lives
We already know that Marshals has committed to developing Pete “Cal” Calvin’s (Logan Marshall-Green) cancer story further going forward. This was good news for those of us who felt like that particular plotline was a bit half-baked last season. That said, it doesn’t come as a surprise that Maddie will have an expanded role in Season 2. Cal spent much of the first season trying to make amends with his estranged daughter, but now that he has received his diagnosis, it will assuredly complicate their dynamic further — especially since it’s already become more complex after Maddie began dating Cal’s subordinate Miles (Tatanka Means). That already makes this quite a sticky situation, as conflict has arisen between Cal and Miles in the workplace. Mixed with all the physical pain the former SEAL operator is going through, it seems like this is a recipe for disaster.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
Still, bridging Cal’s personal and professional lives is long overdue. While Belle (Arielle Kebbel) — who has her own feelings toward Cal — needs to keep her family life separate from her work for a plethora of reasons, Cal has long been merging the two. Whenever the team aimed to unwind after a hard day’s work, they found themselves at the Bullet N’ Barrel Saloon, the same establishment where Maddie serves as a bartender. Although her identity was a mystery for the first few episodes (we mistakenly thought that Cal was hitting on the younger woman), their relationship was soon revealed — just not in time for Miles to avoid asking her out. Now that those lines between work and play are a bit more blurred, Marshals aims to push Cal’s newfound challenges into the forefront of the second season.
While many of us are still wondering how Kayce is going to get his son back from not-so-surprising big bad Tom Weaver (Chris Mulkey), others are itching for their soapy fix by wondering how everything is going to play out between Cal and Maddie, Cal and Belle, and Cal and Miles. Even if the show takes its sweet time to unpack these relationships in light of the U.S. Marshal’s health complications, we’re happy to hear that Maddie will be a bigger part of the show. As far as underdeveloped dynamics go, everything between Cal and his daughter deserves some time to find its legs.
‘Marshals’ Season 2 Has a Lot To Live Up To After ‘Yellowstone’
While Marshals Season 2 sounds like it will improve upon the first, it has a lot to live up to now after the first season of Yellowstone sequel Dutton Ranch. The Paramount+ drama picks up after the events of Sheridan’s original series (and seemingly some of Marshals as well) as Kacey’s sister Beth (Kelly Reilly) and her husband Rip (Cole Hauser) find themselves migrating from Montana to Texas. Dutton Ranch succeeded where Marshals did not in its ability to maintain the same tone and feel as Yellowstone even outside Big Sky Country. Where Marshals leaned into the network television style of police procedurals, Dutton Ranch is just as much a prestige neo-Western drama as its predecessor — if not more so. In short, Marshals has a lot to live up to. Network television has certainly surprised us before, so there’s no telling how the Dutton drama could find its footing in Season 2.
Marshals returns to CBS on Sunday, October 4, 2026.
