"Remember when Ed Helms and Rashida Jones joined The Office in season 3 and turned the workplace comedy into an all-timer? Justified hit its stride once the series introduced Margo Martindale (and she won an Emmy)and a quite a lot of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia viewers forget that Danny DeVito didn't even appear until the second season."
"Billy Bob Thornton's cranky, know-it-all humor was a perfect fit for a character who works in the oil businessa profession as crude and volatile as the ooze they pump out of the ground. And when Landman wasn't goofing off by ogling at its female characters as a weak attempt at humor, Jacob Lofland's romantic and honest story of Texas oil work wasto forgive my punanother untapped narrative that helped Taylor Sheridan forge his TV empire."
"Well, just as Lofland's character says in season 2, as he sets out to start an oil business using untapped wells: "It just made sense to go deeper." If you weren't around for season 1, Landman follows Tommy Norris (Thornton), a fixer for M-Tex who acts as a middleman between the oil workers and the company's billionaire owner, Monty Miller (Jon Hamm). He mainly dealt with threats from Mexican cartels in season 1, which wasn't exactly new ground for a Sheridan series."
Landman showed promise in its debut season through Billy Bob Thornton's cranky, know-it-all portrayal of Tommy Norris, a fixer in the Texas oil business. The series mixes sharp one-liners with Jacob Lofland's romantic, honest storyline about untapped oil wells. The show sometimes relies on weak humor that objectifies female characters, but still explores an underrepresented narrative of oil work. After billionaire owner Monty Miller dies, Tommy assumes control heading into season 2. The addition of Sam Elliott suggests the drama will deepen its focus and escalate its stakes as Tommy builds an oil business amid cartel threats and corporate maneuvering.
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