The Madison has been renewed for a third season, months before the second season is due to arrive on the air.
The series is the latest hit for showrunner Taylor Sheridan, who previously created Yellowstone and its various spin-offs.
The Madison, which is considered a standalone series, stars Michelle Pfeiffer as Stacy Clyburn, a grieving New Yorker who relocates her family to the Madison River valley of central Montana after an unexpected death.
Pfeiffer and her co-star Kurt Russell are expected to return for the third season.
The first season aired on Paramount+ in March, with the already-filmed second season expected to arrive on air either late this year or early in 2027.
Last week, Russell revealed that one of the reasons he was drawn to star in Sheridan’s latest western drama was for its love story.
In The Madison, Russell plays father and husband Preston Clyburn, who dies in the first episode and leaves his longtime wife — played by Pfeiffer — to pick up the pieces of their relationship in her grief.
The 75-year-old actor said in an interview with The National that while preparing for the show, he connected to the emotional storyline on a deep level because it made him think of his own connection with Goldie Hawn, whom he has been with for over 40 years.
“I had a hard time getting through the scripts,” Russell said about the Paramount+ show. “They just kept hitting me really hard, and I felt that that was a big part of this show’s potential, ability to grab an audience. Its writing was so authentic.”
Although The Madison has proved a hit with viewers, the critical reaction has been lukewarm.
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The Wall Street Journal’s John Anderson branded the series as “divisive propaganda” due to its denigration of city life versus the countryside.
“The gist — that only in the relatively untamed countryside do genuine humans exist — seems an unnecessary thing to base a show on,” writes Anderson. “And in our currently polarized country, the series isn’t just irritating and boring. It feels destructive.”
The series was released just weeks after the premiere of Sheridan’s latest Yellowstone spinoff, The Marshals, starring Yellowstone alum Luke Grimes.
Yellowstone, which aired from 2018 to 2024, centered on the Duttons, a six-generation family of ranchers in Montana. The Kevin Costner-led series was a smash hit, consistently drawing massive viewership. Its fifth and final season premiere smashed records, drawing in 12.1 million viewers.
The Madison is streaming on Paramount+.
