- Starring
- Billy Bob Thornton, Ali Larter, Jacob Lofland
- Creators
- Christian Wallace, Taylor Sheridan
- Rating
- TV-MA
- Genre
- Wester, Drama
- Release date
- Nov 16, 2025
- Where to watch
- Paramount+
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In the sun-baked sprawl of West Texas, where black gold bubbles up like old grudges, Landman Season 2 drags us deeper into Tommy Norris’s world—a landman turned reluctant kingpin, wrestling with the ghosts of deals gone sour and the pull of family ties that cut like barbed wire. Fresh blood in the form of weathered icons shakes the dust off the rigs, while the sharp edges of the women orbiting his chaos start carving out their own claims.
Landman (season 2) REVIEW
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Natural and well-constructed dialogue, a compelling antagonist, and relatable drama aren’t enough to save season 2 of Landman from the grip of modern filmmaking’s worst instincts.
Billy Bob continues to deliver a down-to-earth performance packed with nuance and quiet empathic projection that, when supported by a plot focused on him, shines. Unfortunately, Sheridan and crew have decided to push the Academy Award winner into the background as a reactive presence to the shenanigans and drama surrounding what were secondary or, in some cases, hinted-at characters last time around. Almost every narrative drive that made season one of Landman so much fun to watch has been shoved aside to give its worst and most obnoxious characters the limelight.
What’s worse is that most of these secondaries only worked last season as bite-sized foils for Billy Bob to overcome. Now that they’ve been given the story's reins—and a completely unjustified moral superiority, impossible to ignore by the fourth episode—the once promising Landman has abandoned its magic for modernity and become virtually unwatchable.
As its now bloated cast of ancillary characters dominates each episode with obnoxious, time-wasting personal drama, the putative main plot gets lost in the noise.
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Overall recommended, I would personally categorize as “mostly based”. Like most Taylor Sheridan creations, it’s a mixed bag, but ultimately an entertaining show.
Big spoiler ahead and I don’t know if there is a way to cover it, but this is woke BS. So you’ve been warned, don’t continue if you don’t want spoilers.
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When “victory” is defined as vanquishing enemies rather than acting virtuously, vile anti-social behavior becomes the ideal to aspire to.
The whole Episode 4 situation reminds me of the scene in Oppenheimer when Florence Pugh’s character says to Oppenheimer “I don’t want anything from you”, and then he says “Well you say that and then you call”, and she replies with “Well, don’t answer”. It’s just women being women lol.
Yeah, pretty much yup. I thought TS was going to give us some good masculine entertainment but it’s become soap opera. Can’t believe this guy wrote Sicario. The Mayor of Kingstown and Tulsa King have become disappointing as well.
Well… gotta admit it, Episode 05 was a slight improvement form last week BS.
Spoilers ahead, you’ve been warned:
As annoying as she has been so far, Rebecca finally got put on her place by a couple of men and gotta say that she doesn’t look that bad in a pirate disguise. If I were single and to paraphrase one of my favorite franchises quotes, I would totally slap that ### and I would totally grab and hold on to it (please don’t tell my wife I said that).
Cami is becoming one of my most hated characters of all time, # her. If she were to go through the Gemma Teller Morrow (Sons of Anarchy, those who watched it know what I’m talking about) punishment any when in the future I would be a happy panda.
So… S02E07… a whole episode about absolutely nothing… feel free to skip it, nothing happened. Not only that, but (spoilers ahead) finally Nathan got the upper hand on Rebecca and two minutes later the whole thing turns into a nothingburger (spoilers over). The show is getting worse and worse with each episode.
I do get the sense that the show is spinning its wheels without any major direction, but I’m willing to reserve judgment until the end. We’ll have to see if the stuff with Rebecca leads anywhere of it’s just forgotten. Season 2 is more aimless than the first, but I don’t necessarily think it’s woke.
After finishing the entire season, I think the worries about Landman becoming woke were all for naught. Ariana getting a job instead of staying at home with the baby was ultimately shown to be the wrong decision, and Cooper was right all along. Cami (Demi Moore) tried to be a girlboss, but is running the company into the ground and has now lost her best employees. This is the exact opposite of woke.
The problem with woke entertainment is that it is often one-dimensional and predictable. Landman, on the other hand, is far more nuanced and complex, making it hard to pinpoint where the show is going. That’s a good thing. So scenarios that may have appeared to be “woke” at first ended up being the opposite.
I’m sure some will have a problem with the woke college redhead girl being shown in a sympathetic light in Episode 10 (after being villainized in Episode 9), but this is what good TV is supposed to do. It’s supposed to take you on a journey, have multi-faceted characters with flaws and strengths, and challenge preconceived notions.
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