Taylor Sheridan’s The Madison Trailer Hints at Major Onscreen Death

Taylor Sheridan‘s TV universe is expanding with the new series The Madison, which will seemingly start off with a major onscreen death.

Paramount+ released the official trailer on Tuesday, February 24, which introduced the Clyburn family as they weather an unexpected tragedy.

“Memories are like a movie. We can play it over and over to revisit all those times we did have together,” Michelle Pfeiffer‘s Stacy says in the sneak peek. “All the talks, all the laughs and all the hugs.”

Stacy admits that reliving the best moments is “not the same” as living in them, adding, “Mine is not a family designed to withstand tragedy. … I’m 65 years old. I have a very small window to feed [my heart].”

Despite Stacy’s concerns about her future, her therapist — played by Will Arnett — urges her to “have as much life as you allow yourself.” The death at the center of the series isn’t officially confirmed, although fans of Sheridan’s other shows have shared their theories about how Clyburn patriarch Preston (Kurt Russell) is likely the one to get killed off.

In addition to Pfeiffer, 67, and Russell, 74, the upcoming series, which is directed and produced by Christina Alexandra Voros, stars Patrick J. Adams, Elle Chapman, Matthew Fox, Beau Garrett, Amiah Miller, Ben Schnetzer and Kevin Zegers. Rebecca Spence, Alaina Pollack and Danielle Vasinova make up the rest of the cast.

According to the official synopsis, The Madison follows the Clyburn family from New York City, who “relocate to the Madison River valley of southwest Montana for emotional recovery following a tragedy that shattered the family.”

Russell recently praised his time on the show in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, hinting the series was already renewed and filmed a second season.

“I really like what The Madison is. It’s a smart show,” he said in January while referring to Sheridan, 55, as a “really good” writer. “Taylor’s excellent, and Michelle is great, and she’s really great in this show. Talking about awards — I think they’re going to be looking Michelle’s way. They’re all really good, but it is [Sheridan’s] writing that is so compelling.”

Russell continued: “I think that it’s a very different show for Taylor in that it’s a very female-gaze-oriented show. And I think it’s extremely well written, it was fun to play. It was really fun to do. I just had a good time.”

The actor credited his busy schedule as the reason The Madison filmed two seasons at once.

“I did the second season of Monarch [Legacy of Monsters], the Apple TV show, and unfortunately for me, the timing was when Madison came around,” Russell explained. “And I said, ‘There’s just no way to do it,’ because I was working on this show.”

Sheridan and Pfeiffer, who both serve as executive producers on the series, came up with a way to delay shooting Russell’s season 1 scenes.

“Michelle Pfeiffer and Taylor were able to get together with the people at Paramount+ and said, ‘Well, let’s do two seasons instead of just one,’” Russell recalled. “‘And then before we start the second season next year, instead of doing that, we will start with Kurt’s stuff. We really do want him to play the guy. And we’ll get his first season out of the way first, and jam all that in there, and then go into the second season and do that.’ And so we were able to do that.”

The Madison premieres on Paramount+ Saturday, March 14.