"I'm not much of a breakfast eater, Billy Bob Thornton's Tommy Norris says at the very top of Landman season 2. There's Kellogg's, General Mills, and whoever makes those shitty little waffles? (That's Eggos, which is also owned by Kellogg's, by the way.) Well, the people who tell us that breakfast is the most important meal of the day are the sons of bitches that make the stuff, says Thornton."
"In the pilot, Tommy described the oil business as a $3 billion-a-day industry that pushes the crude stuff out like a drug. (Good news, because America is addicted.) For Tommy and all our characters outside of Fort Worth, Texas, the oil business just pays the billsplain and simple. You don't ask questions about how its negatively affecting the planet, and you don't spit on the hand that feeds you."
"One of my biggest critiques of season 1 was that Landman took the amazing premise of Tommy's joba middleman who sorts out problems between the oil workers and the company's billionaire ownersand ended the season with a fourth party threatening Tommy's life. Sheridan shoehorned the Mexican cartel into the series for some reason, even at the cost of throwing his more interesting characters to the side."
Tommy Norris opens season two with a wry complaint about breakfast cereals and the companies that profit from them, establishing a cranky tone. The oil business is framed as a $3 billion-a-day industry that pushes crude like a drug, and characters outside Fort Worth rely on it to pay the bills without questioning environmental harm. Tommy returns to a dangerous, borderline idiotic job after last season's legal and cartel entanglements. Season two corrects season one's misstep by sidelining the Mexican cartel and restoring focus on core relationships, notably bringing Tommy's son Cooper back eager to learn the landman trade.
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