7 Greatest Western Shows on Netflix That Are 10/10, No Notes
The article recommends Western and Western-inspired series on Netflix, arguing that the genre now includes historical dramas and modern neo-Westerns beyond traditional American frontier stories.
– Frontier: Jason Momoa plays a trapper opposing the Hudson’s Bay Company’s corrupt fur-trade monopoly in late-18th-century Canada.
– Song of the Bandits: A Korean neo-Western set in 1920s Japanese-occupied Korea and lawless Gando, China.
– Longmire: A modern police procedural with a strong neo-Western atmosphere, revived by Netflix after A&E cancelled it.
- Netflix’s Western selection extends beyond conventional frontier tales.
- Frontier centres on resistance to fur-trade corruption.
- Song of the Bandits recasts colonial-era Korea as a Wild West.