Landman takes its name from the least glamorous and most consequential job in the oil business — the fixer who leases the land, cuts the deals, and stands between a multibillion-dollar company and the people whose backyards sit on top of the crude. Adapted by Taylor Sheridan and journalist Christian Wallace from Wallace's Boomtown podcast, the series plants Billy Bob Thornton in the middle of the West Texas patch as Tommy Norris: profane, exhausted, and very good at a job that is quietly destroying everyone who does it.
It is Sheridan working his home turf — the modern Western reframed as an economics thriller. Where Yellowstone guards a ranch, Landman guards a balance sheet, and the show is unusually candid about the human cost baked into every barrel: the roughnecks who die in accidents the company writes off as line items, the small fortunes made and lost on a single well, the families pulled apart by the money and the absence it requires. Around Tommy orbit his ex-wife Angela, his kids Cooper and Ainsley, and the billionaire oilman Monty Miller and his wife Cami — a portrait of new Texas money in all its excess and fragility.
“A modern tale of fortune-seeking among roughnecks and billionaires in the boomtowns of West Texas.”The premise, as Paramount+ frames it
The first season premiered November 17, 2024 with back-to-back episodes and ran ten installments through January 2025. A second season arrived November 16, 2025, and Paramount+ renewed the show for a third before that season had finished airing — confirmation that the patch, and Tommy Norris's particular brand of trouble, is far from played out.
