Paramount+ has officially confirmed that *Lioness* is coming back for a fourth season, which means Taylor Sheridan now has approximately 47 active television shows and has personally written every line of dialogue ever spoken on television since 2018.
The man is either a genius or has cloned himself, and at this point I'm not ruling out either.
For the uninitiated, *Lioness* follows a CIA program that uses female operatives to infiltrate terror networks, because apparently the agency looked at its own track record and decided the best move was to outsource the whole thing to Yellowstone's extended cinematic universe.
Zoe Saldaña stars, Nicole Kidman produces and occasionally appears, and Morgan Freeman shows up to class up the joint like he's the cool grandpa at a family reunion nobody planned.
Season 3 ended with enough unresolved tension to fill a Costco, and fans have been refreshing their streaming apps like it's a Taylor Swift ticket drop.
The show has quietly become one of Paramount+'s biggest draws, which in 2024 is like being the tallest person at a hobbit convention, but credit where it's due.
Here's the thing nobody wants to admit: Sheridan's whole deal is pumping out content at a pace that would hospitalize a normal human, and the quality control is basically a coin flip.
For every genuinely tense episode of *Lioness*, there's a subplot that feels like it was written on a napkin during a cattle auction.
The dialogue oscillates between "surprisingly sharp" and "did a chatbot write this?" That said, the cast carries it.
Saldaña does more with a single glare than most actors manage with an entire monologue, and the action sequences hit hard enough to justify the subscription for at least another few months.
It's dad TV with a higher body count, and honestly, that's a lane.
No premiere date has been announced yet, which means we'll get approximately 400 speculative articles before Paramount tells us anything.
Sheridan is probably already writing Season 5 on the back of a receipt while simultaneously showrunning three other projects and buying another ranch.
So yeah, *Lioness* Season 4 is happening.
Set your calendars for sometime between now and the heat death of the universe. **The Take:** Look, the show is a fun watch and Saldaña is genuinely fantastic, but Sheridan's content empire is starting to feel like a Cheesecake Factory menu — technically impressive, wildly overstuffed, and you're never totally sure what you ordered.
Final Thoughts
We're all part of the problem and we know it.