Landman
Taylor Sheridan’sLandmanhas emerged as the utter antidote toYellowstone ’s perpetual sturm and drang . Set in the oil boom towns of West Texas , Landmancenters onTommy Norris ( Billy Bob Thornton ) , the hardworking and highly lettered fixer for the M - Tex rock oil conglomerate have by billionaire Monty Miller ( Jon Hamm).Landmancontains many of the familiar trappings ofYellowstone , but it ’s moving in different directions with a essence lose from the Dutton Ranch in Montana .
Yellowstonenears the end of its 5th season with the Dutton family verging on brutal retaliation for themurder of John Dutton(Kevin Costner ) . Without the Duttons ' patriarch , Kayce Dutton ( Luke Grimes ) andBeth Dutton ( Kelly Reilly)face the realness that they will misplace their family line ’s cattle ranch after 140 years of struggle blood feuds to keep it . Yellowstoneremains a gripping tv set powerhouse , but a black cloud of doom and inevitability hangs over the Duttons ' picturesque cattle farm . Meanwhile , Landmanis depict there are sunnier sidereal day in West Texasdespite the turmoil Tommy Norris troubleshoot day by day .
Landman Improves On Yellowstone’s Problematic Tropes
There Are Good People Working In The Texas Oil Boom
Landman , co - created by Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace , is proving to be a bracing change of pace and a counterpoint toYellowstone ’s problematic tropes . Landman ’s main reference , Tommy Norris , is a go humans immerse in hand - on know - how about the oil manufacture , but Tommy ’s not the hardliner John Dutton was . Nor is his political boss , Monty , who appreciates and supports the essential of Tommy ’s work for M - Tex . job , accidents , theft , and even tragical death happen onLandman , but not at Tommy ’s behest , andNorris does n’t automatically resort to violence as a means to an end like the Duttons .
The oil worker in Landman have a lot of unique vocabulary and slang words , but their meanings are n’t immediately obvious to all viewers .
Landmanintroduced attorney Rebecca Falcone ( Kayla Wallace ) who joins Tommy to enquire a stolen plane full of drugs put down by an oil tanker . Rebecca is fresh , and adequate to , but fair , unlike the bitter and volatile Beth Dutton or her hated , invertebrate brother Jamie Dutton ( Wes Bentley ) , the lawyer general of Montana . Rebecca curry down rival attorney at Tommy ’s deposition inLandmanseason 1 , installment 4 , " The pang of Second Chances , " is already a highlighting of the serial .
Tommy saved Rebecca from a rattlesnake inLandmanseason 1 , installment 3 , " Hell Has a Front Yard . "
WhereasKacey Dutton has spent fiveYellowstoneseasons basically directionless , Tommy ’s son , Cooper ( Jacob Lofland ) , is impressive . Cooper is stick his helping hand dirty working as an oil rigger to earn the experience he needs to see every facial expression of the vegetable oil stage business he design to work one day . Landmanhas its share of yobbo and ne’er - do - well , but the main character thus far have prove to be admirable . It ’s impossible to reckon Cooper ’s babe Ainsley ( Michelle Randolph ) hating and plan to kill him like Beth does Jamie onYellowstone .
Landman Is About A Family Coming Together
The Norris Family Is The Anti-Duttons
TheDuttons onYellowstonecan be delineate by many adjectives , but"endearing " is n’t one of them . YetTommy Norris ' kin onLandmanhas already show themselves to be endear . Tommy can be an"a**hole"who overdoes suck beer , but he ’s a loving sire to his charming teenage girl , Ainsley , and she loves her daddy mightily back . Tommy and his ex - wife , Angela ( Ali Larter ) , may be"oil and water"as a married couple , but there is genuine affection and obedience between them . The family kinetics between Tommy , Angela , and Ainsley are the beating affectionateness ofLandman .
Tommy ’s kindred reunite on Landman has been a pleasure to watch .
Even better , Landman ’s other installment have been about Tommy ’s family coming back together , to the amusing chagrin of Tommy ’s attorney roommate , Nathan ( Colm Feore ) . While Cooper ’s function in the Norris family moral force still has to be give , Tommy ’s clan reuniting onLandmanhas been a pleasure to watch over , as is how Tommy copes with the sun - haired charms of his two gorgeous girls , Ainsley and Angela , upending his sprightliness . But they also aim to ameliorate it too .
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It ’s still early inLandman ’s run , and there are adhere to be twists , complication , and hard time ahead , butLandmanalready feels like a boom town for audiences while the agingYellowstonestruggles to guard onto its rein .
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