Sheridan's spy thriller "Lioness" eerily predicted the US-Iran conflict

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There's a reason why Taylor Sheridan 's television empire has become so expansive. The tentacles of Sheridan's artistic vision, notably the various spin-offs of his crown jewel , Yellowstone , have ostensibly become the backbone of Paramount's entire streaming library. Regardless of his political beliefs, Sheridan has tapped into the American Midwest in a way that is often ignored by prestige TV. One of his most recent triumphs on the small screen, Lioness , sees Sheridan tackling a familiar sentiment in American media throughout the century: the war on terror. Initially positioned as a new take on government intervention in the Middle East, Lioness , starring Zoe Saldaña as the leader of a CIA program to thwart terrorist plots, focused on the drug cartel and its intersection with government affairs overseas. Without trying to predict the future, Sheridan's writing has eerily mirrored real-life headlines involving U.S. action against the drug trade.