Posted on 01/14/2025 6:31:47 AM PST by PJ-Comix
The first season of the Paramount+ series Landman has turned out to be a very surprising hit. Not merely because of the incredible acting by Billy Bob Thornton as the landman Tommy Norton, or by Jon Hamm as Monty Miller the oil company CEO, but also surprisingly because it has been giving the audience economic lessons, told in an entertaining manner, on the importance of the petroleum industry.
The final episode of the season, although quite thrilling in its development (no spoilers here) was equally as impressive for what it revealed about the oil business starting with the opener of the episode with this voiceover narrative by the late radio host Paul Harvey. Later when the oil company lawyer Rebecca Falcone expresses moral qualms about fracking, Tommy Norton gives her a lesson on why it is necessary:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
And now you know ...the REST of the story.
It’s a very entertaining show, almost morbidly funny in the amount of punishment that Billy Bob endures while maintaining the same FU attitude.
Paul Harvey, the Jerry Jones cameo, playing Cards against Humanity...
...LOVED the entire series
Billy Bob became a bad-ass since being slapped by Wyatt Earp..
He also got beaten up by Robert Duvall in another movie.
I haven’t seen it yet but love the program and it’s overt messaging to the libs
“I hear the moral high ground gets real windy at night...” What a great line to close out the season.
But a warning: it's heavy on foul language and sexual scenes and overtones. I could do with less of that stuff, while loving the no-nonsense manner of Thornton's character.
The wife and daughter caricatures almost ruin the show. I have fast forwarded through scenes with them - completely ridiculous situations that only exist in some Hollywood writer’s fantasy land.
The torture scene was a bit... unrealistic. A 60 year old man gets his forearm whacked with a hammer, and then has a nail driven into his femur... and just walks out? Arm and leg both working fine?
Ditch the goofy storyline about his slutty wife and the old folks, and his over the top daughter and her aw-shucks boyfriend and you’ve got a real winner.
Watched it ...is there going to be a second series....?
I’ll second that
And since virtually nobody in Hollywood thinks like men, the result is what they're perception of stereotypical men want in a show. Some of it is right and I love it. Some of it is insulting that they think it's entertaining.
As a Midlander and an oil man (from being a pumper to an engineer, to running a public company), it’s both amusing and frustrating to watch.
Stripper wells don’t blow out.
Cartels are a thing, but not like that. Maybe down in Victoria.
A crew working on a drilling rig doesn’t work on a work over rig or do field work. Let alone all three.
Man camps are run like minimum security prisons. There are drug and weapons searches regularly, if it is a quality camp.
“Karter’s Furniture” delivering furniture was funny. (Big local store is “Carters”.)
The rent house appears to be the Greentree neighborhood. Maybe one of the “new” areas between Midland/Odessa.
The Midland County Club scenes are filmed in San Angelo. Being a member of both, this was fun.
The Petroleum Club scenes were the Ft. Worth Petroleum Club (I think, wasn’t paying that much attention.) But I think that was supposed to be Ft. Worth.
Not sure where the hospital is, probably Andrews. But it’s not Midland or Odessa.
The “Patch” is pretty clearly supposed to be “The Bar” in Midland. If not, it’s inspired by it. Or they all look alike.
The FBO (private jet) scenes are the Midland FBO on the outside, but the insides are somewhere else.
It’s true a Mercedes would not stick out in Midland. Other than not being a Range Rover or at least a G Class. Everyone drives a truck or SUV, it seems.
The outside of the law office was the Fasken Building. The inside was somewhere else.
The law the chick lawyer quoted was about 50% wrong.
The windmill scene was somewhere around Sterling City. That’s east, not west.
The football games were not filmed in Midland, but rather Permian in Odessa.
Oh, and a plane of that size has a GPS locator on it. They could track it by satellite.
The exterior hospital scenes were filmed at a hospital in Ft. Worth. I’m sure the interior shots were a sound stage somewhere.
A great series. My nephew worked oil in Michigan. He is anxious to watch the series.
The scene they note is not even the most fun of the show.
The funniest scene is when the lib lawyer tells Billy Bob she has a concealed carry permit before they have their meeting. Billy Bob says something along the lines of, “You don’t need one in Texas. The reason everyone waves to each other in Texas is because they are all carrying guns. “
I laughed out loud.
Taylor Sheridan knows how to farm “red meat” from his viewers. With the exception on the slutty wife and daughter (with hearts of gold), every other character is fun!
GREAT series!!! Many more seasons to come (I hope).
Ali Larter still looks GREAT!
The acting in this show is Superb.
This series is a 10.
I worked the oil fields in west Texas, this show with the two BLANK have turned me off from wanting to see more episodes.
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