Taylor Sheridan's Landman has a lot of potential, but it's too unrefined to stand out. The oil drama's first two episodes are streaming now on Paramount+.
Landman Score Details “Taylor Sheridan's Landman has a lot of potential, but it's too unfocused and unrefined to truly stand out in an increasingly crowded TV landscape.” Pros Cons In a 2022 interview, producer David Glasser described Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan as a “first-draft writer,” noting, “What he puts out is what we shoot. When he turns a script in, that’s it.
Landman begins in the tensest of circumstances. It first finds Tommy Norris , a crisis fixer for billionaire oil baron Monty Miller , tied to a chair in a desert warehouse owned by a drug cartel. When the region’s cartel leader enters the building, he does so with every intention of shooting Tommy in the head — or worse.
Tommy’s occupation is, to Sheridan’s credit, exactly the kind of narrative engine that can power a potentially long-running series, and Thornton is more than up to the task of leading Landman. The actor is at his most charismatic and unscrupulous as Tommy, a character who could make for a fascinating TV anti-hero if, well, Sheridan didn’t clearly like him so much.
The only saving grace of Moore’s non-role is that she’s spared the same cartoonish treatment as Angela, who is written as hypersexualized and overemotional and whom Larter has to use all of her energy to save from being completely insufferable. The show somehow does even worse by Ainsley , Tommy and Angela’s 17-year-old daughter.
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