Re: Landman

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

I just watched the first two episodes of Landman, the new Taylor
Sheridan series that just dropped.
 
Sheridan wrote and directed these first two episodes, suggesting he is
"all in" on this new series, at least for now. (By contrast, I was
surprised to see that he didn't write any episodes of the latest season
of Mayor of Kingstown. I don't know whether he's losing interest in
Mayor of Kingstown or if he is just so frantically busy on all his other
series that he had to delegate some writing.)
 
Billy Bob Thornton stars in Landman as a man called Tommy Norris. I'll
describe him a fixer or a trouble-shooter because he spends his days
dealing with problems/crises at the various holdings of an oil company
called M-Tex around Midland, Texas. He reports directly to the boss of
the company, played by Jon Hamm. In the very first scene, we meet
Thornton's character with a bag over his head because he's been
kidnapped by a drug cartel and is awaiting the arrival of a top
lieutenant who is upset about the oil company wanting to look for oil on
their land. Thornton finesses the cartel guy into agreeing to allow oil
exploration in exchange for looking the other way on their drug
activity. His next challenge is a huge transport truck that crashes into
a small plane that is offloading drugs into a van on the road. And
that's just the early part of the day.
 
We learn that Norris is divorced; his ex is played by Ali Larter and
she's quite a bitch. Norris also has a 17 year old daughter who seems
fairly spoiled and who has romantic challenges. His other child is a son
who has just dropped out of college just months before graduating so
that he too can work in the oil patch. He wants to learn the oil
business from the ground up and we see him on is very first day assigned
to a crew that is supposed to show him the ropes but makes a point of
hazing him extensively.
 
I don't want to reveal too many plot details so I'll end by saying I
enjoyed these two episodes and am looking forward to watching the
remaining 8 episodes in this first season. I think the lead character is
interesting and the remaining characters and circumstances should give
them several good plot lines to develop.

"As long as he never cums in me, he can cum anywhere on me."

The look on Billy Bob's face deserved its own Oscar.