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Let’s Have a Taylor Kitsch Watch Party
From a gritty western to a limited series on the opioid crisis, there’s plenty of Taylor to go around.
By Krutika Mallikarjuna
Sept. 2, 2025
Taylor Kitsch: 3 Unskippable Performances Streaming on Netflix - Netflix Tudum
In case you’re wondering what Taylor Kitsch has been up to since his mid-2000s performance as Tim Riggins, a soulful, lost high school football player in Friday Night Lights, his career’s delved into many genres. He played a cult leader in Waco: Madman or Messiah and the charming Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, then he appeared primarily shirtless in at least 85% of John Carter. Taylor’s never really been gone, but with the arrival of his new show, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, we’re celebrating him with three Taylor performances you can’t miss — streaming on Netflix now.
American Primeval
From the creator of Friday Night Lights, Pete Berg, comes the tale of a mother (Betty Gilpin) and her son on the run from the law, and the skilled mountain man (Kitsch) who guides them through dangerous, unsettled territory in 1857 Utah, where the LSD church engages in bitter territorial struggle with local communities and incoming settlers.
The Defeated
In 1946, NYPD detective Max McLaughlin (Kitsch) is assigned to help Berlin reform its police force in the wake of World War II. As he trains a young woman named Elsie Garten (Nina Hoss), he also looks for his brother, an American soldier (Logan Marshall-Green) who went AWOL at the end of the war.
Painkiller
In Painkiller, Taylor Kitsch plays Glen Kryer, a blue-collar worker who gets addicted to opioids after a workplace injury, in this fictionalized limited series about the Sacklers, the family whose big pharma company played a significant role in the opioid crisis in the US. Painkiller is executive produced by Eric Newman (Narcos) and Pete Berg (Friday Night Lights). The series also stars Uzo Aduba and Matthew Broderick.
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