It seems like a strange Venn diagram of gritty Billy Bob Thornton and gentle Jon Hamm appearing in the same series, but here it’s part of Taylor Sheridan’s ever-expanding world. Unlike Sheridan’s biggest hit, “Yellowstone,” this film is set in a Texas oil field rather than a ranch, with Thornton playing Tommy Norris, an oil company crisis manager, and Hamm playing oil tycoon Monty Miller. Men and their families have a history. The cast also includes Andy Garcia, Ali Larter, and Demi Moore, who plays Monty’s wife Cami. The show was created by Sheridan and Christian Wallace, host of the 2019 podcast “Boomtown,” which inspired the series. Official explanations are usually not worth repeating, but this one: resound Podcasts are too big to ignore. Paramount says “Landman” is “the story of the upper echelons of the roughnecks and wildcat billionaires who fuel a boom so powerful that it reshapes the climate, the economy, and geopolitics.” Also, it’s a melodrama.
Landman premieres on Paramount+ on November 17th in the US and November 18th in the UK
