Landman
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The Land of Fear and Awe March 28, 2025
“Everything is bigger in Texas,” the saying goes. The land, dreams, nightmares, successes, failures–all of this exemplifies the spheres of the American Dream. This dream is beautiful and unique but incredibly fragile. Still, the ambition, the chase, ...
'Landman' Is the Perfect Show for Our Times January 16, 2025
Taylor Sheridan, the most overextended man in television, has done it again. Landman, according to the internal metrics at Paramount+, is the most watched original show the streamer has ever had. (The top five spots are all held by other Sheridan ser...
'Landman' Is a Dumb Waste of a Great Premise January 14, 2025
Shortly into the first episode of Landman, Billy Bob Thornton’s protagonist, Tommy Morris, is talking with his seventeen-year-old daughter, Ainsley, at a college football game. He’s just met her quarterback boyfriend, and Tommy asks her if they’re be...
'Landman' Is in Love With Myths January 01, 2025
Landman, the new drama series on Paramount+, opens with protagonist Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) tied to a chair and surrounded by members of a Mexican drug cartel. He’s trying to get them to sign away their land so that the oil company he works...
