The first season of Landman is a smash hit for Paramount. The latest Taylor Sheridan drama about the Texas oil industry premiered to roughly 15 million viewers in its first week, according to Variety. Although the series has had its ups and downs ever since, the on-screening pairing of Billy Bob Thornton and Ali Larter has kept the series interesting from episode to episode. Thornton was even nominated for a Golden Globe!
Landman follows a Texas oil patch manager—AKA a “Landman”—named Tommy Norris (Thornton), as he seeks to keep the peace between the workers and the company’s billionaire owner, Monty Miller (Jon Hamm). It’s one of those Advil-a-day jobs. Tommy also has his family to manage, which includes his on-and-off again ex-wife Angela (Larter) and his seventeen-year-old daughter Ainsley (Michelle Randolph). There’s also his son, Cooper (Jacob Laughlin), who dropped out of college to learn how to follow in his father’s footsteps.
Every new cast member creates more issues for Tommy week by week. In the penultimate episode, his latest call to Monty put his boss in the hospital with a heart attack. After a cliff-hanger showing his hospital monitor in flux, it’s looking like Hamm may not make it to the finale. Tommy will also need to fend off the local cartel in season 1’s final episode next week, as if the Landman didn’t have enough problems already.
Will There Be a Landman Season 2?
If you ask Demi Moore (The Substance), the answer is a resounding “Yes.” The recent Golden Globe winner plays Monty’s criminally underused wife, Cami Miller. When she spoke with Deadline this past summer at the Cannes Film Festival, Moore revealed that she expects to return to Texas to film season 2.
“I’ve already completed the first season and I’m excited for us to start the second which will be at the beginning of next year,” Moore said. “It’s a very interesting world in the boomtown of Fort Worth, Texas. It’s kind of this subculture that we haven’t seen before, which is what I think Taylor [Sheridan] does so well.”
We’ll have to wait until the finale to see where Landman heads next, but it seems as if season 2 will begin filming shortly. Until then, Sheridan’s planned the second season of 1923 and the upcoming Yellowstone spinoff, The Madison, to keep viewers busy.