CBS has shifted focus to expanding the universes of its current hits rather than developing novel ideas from scratch each season. Many well-performing
CBS has shifted focus to expanding the universes of its current hits rather than developing novel ideas from scratch each season. Many well-performing CBS shows have been considered for spin-offs, and one of the richest universes is that of Fire Country, the firefighter drama starring Max Thieriot. The series introduced viewers to Edgewater, a tiny town in Northern California with its own unique problems. It follows the members of Station 42, who are family in the broadest sense of the word.
The network has considered several ideas for standalone shows in the Fire Country-verse, and one of the earliest ones was to develop an offshoot based on Jared Padalecki‘s character, Camden. He appeared in several episodes in Season 3 before word spread that he could be getting his own show. There have been no updates so far. The second idea was to follow the law enforcement side of Edgewater by focusing on the sheriff’s station. Morena Baccarin was cast as Sheriff Mickey Fox, and after a successful backdoor pilot, Sheriff Country debuted last season and has been performing well.
The third idea was only introduced last season, and it would focus on the medical side of Edgewater, building a universe akin to NBC’s One Chicago. Given that Manny (Kevin Alejandro) from Fire Country had started dating a doctor in Season 4, it was speculated that the novel spinoff would focus on Camille (Natalie Zea). Thieriot, also Fire Country’s co-creator and executive producer, confirmed the spin-off will be introduced this season, but it won’t be led by Camille.
Deadline reports that the novel series, tentatively referred to as Edge Med, will introduce Dr. Hudson “Hud” Henshaw, played by Schitt’s Creek star Noah Reid. Hud is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Edgewater Memorial, described as “charming and quick-witted, but rough-around-the-edges.” He was raised in Deadwater but chose a different path for himself instead of falling into the life of crime that led to his parents being convicted felons. Reid will appear in two upcoming episodes of Sheriff Country, and if everything works out, he’ll lead his own show.
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
FIND YOUR WORLD →
01
Where does your power come from?
In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
ALand, legacy, and a name that’s been feared and respected for generations.
BKnowing the deal better than anyone else in the room — and being willing to walk away first.
CReputation. I’ve earned it the strenuous way, and everyone in the room knows it.
DBeing the only person both sides will talk to. That makes me indispensable — and risky.
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02
Who do you put first, no matter what?
Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
AFamily — blood or chosen. The ranch, the name, the people who carry it with me.
BThe company — or whoever’s signing the cheques. Loyalty follows the contract.
CMy crew. The men who stood with me when it counted — I don’t abandon them for anything.
DMy community — even when my community is a powder keg and I’m the only thing stopping it from blowing.
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03
Someone crosses a line. How do you respond?
Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
AQuietly, decisively, and in a way that sends a message to everyone watching.
BI outmanoeuvre them legally, financially, and politically before they even know I’ve moved.
CDirectly. Old school. You cross me, you hear about it to your face — and then you deal with the consequences.
DI absorb it, calculate the fallout, and find the move that keeps the whole system from collapsing.
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04
Where do you feel most in your element?
Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
AWide open land — mountains, sky, silence. Somewhere you can see trouble coming from a mile away.
BThe oil fields of West Texas — brutal, lucrative, and indifferent to whoever happens to be standing on top of them.
CA mid-size city where the rules haven’t quite caught up yet — fertile ground for someone with vision and nerve.
DA rust-belt town built around a prison — where everyone’s life is shaped by what’s inside those walls.
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05
How do you feel about operating in the grey?
Nobody in a Sheridan show has pristine hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
AI do what has to be done to protect what’s mine. I’ll answer for it eventually — but not today.
BGrey is just business. The line moves depending on what’s at stake, and I move with it.
CI have a code — it’s not the law’s code, but it’s mine, and I don’t break it.
DI’ve made peace with it. Keeping the peace requires compromises most people don’t have the stomach for.
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06
What are you actually fighting to hold onto?
Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
AA way of life that the newfangled world is doing everything it can to erase.
BMy position — and the leverage that comes with being the person everyone needs to close a deal.
CRelevance. I’ve been away, I’ve been written off — and I’m proving that was a mistake.
DWhatever frail order I’ve managed to build — because without it, everything burns.
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07
How do you lead?
Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
ABy example and force of will. People follow me because they believe in what I’m protecting — and because they know what happens if they don’t.
BThrough negotiation and leverage. I don’t need people to like me — I need them to need me.
CBy being the smartest, most experienced person in the room and making sure everyone quietly knows it.
DBy being the tranquil centre of a situation that would spiral without me — and accepting that nobody thanks you for it.
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08
Someone novel 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.
AThey’ll learn. Or they won’t. Either way, the land was here before them and it’ll be here after.
BI figure out what they want, what they’re worth, and whether they’re an asset or a problem — brisk.
CI was the outsider once. I give them a chance — one — to show they understand respect.
DNew players destabilise everything I’ve built. I assess the threat and manage it before it manages me.
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09
What has your position cost you?
Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
AMy family’s peace — maybe their innocence. The ranch demands everything, and I’ve let it take too much.
BRelationships, time, any version of a normal life. The job eats everything that isn’t nailed down.
CYears. Decades in some cases. Time I can’t get back — but I’m not done yet.
DMy conscience, mostly. And the ability to ever fully trust anyone on either side of the wall.
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10
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.
AThat I held the line. That the land is still ours and everything I did was worth it.
BThat I was the best at what I did and that no deal ever got closed without me at the table.
CThat I built something real, somewhere nobody expected it, and I did it on my own terms.
DThat I kept the peace when nobody else could — and that the town is still standing because of it.
REVEAL MY SHOW →
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 newfangled 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 skinny, 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: piercing, 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 shrewd 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.
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What Else Should You Expect From the ‘Fire Country’ Universe This Season?
While Fire Country is seeing some major changes this season, Sheriff Country remains relatively unchanged. Eric Guggenheim will be Fire Country’s novel showrunner, and Season 5 will be 13-episodes long. Additionally, the show introduces a novel series regular, CJ (Olivia Thirlby), whom viewers will meet in the season premiere after a sinkhole opens on Main Street. Meanwhile, in the Sheriff’s department, Mickey is trying to come to terms with the revelation about her family. Baccarin’s husband and Gotham costar, Ben McKenzie, guest stars in the season premiere as Sheriff Wade for a neighboring department. Later on November 6, the two shows will cross over in a two-hour event that tracks a prison break that escalates into something more.
Catch the novel seasons of Fire Country and Sheriff Country when they return on October 6. Stay tuned for more updates.
Release Date
October 7, 2022
Showrunner
Tia Napolitano, Eric Guggenheim
Directors
Bill Purple, Dermott Downs, Eagle Egilsson, Gonzalo Amat, Kevin Alejandro, Max Thieriot, Sarah Wayne Callies, Marie Jamora, Kantu Lentz, Antonio Negret, Laura Nisbet Peters, Lisa Demaine, Nicole Rubio, James Strong, Anton Cropper, Erica A. Watson, Joy T. Lane, Jacquie Gould, Chi-Yoon Chung
Writers
Tia Napolitano, David Gould, Natalia Fernandez, Barbara Kaye Friend, Tony Phelan, Joan Rater, Dwain Worrell, Julia Fontana, Sara Casey, Manuel Herrera, Jen Klein, Anupam Nigam, Tonya Kong
