Every week watching this show set deep in the heart of Texas oil country, I come away feeling like I’ve been slapped. If this is the ‘real’ America, it certainly isn’t ideal
Billy Bob Thornton stars in Landman, which airs on Paramount+, as Tommy Norris, the fixer for a West Texas oil drilling company called M-Tex.. A week before Donald Trump’s second inauguration as U.S. President, this Paramount+ series – from the prolific writer/director/actor Taylor Sheridan, 54, who also created
Meanwhile, Norris’s new girlfriend, Angela – who’s also his ex-wife – and their 17-year-old daughter, Ainsley , did their “charity work”: They brought a van load of senior citizens to a strip club. Ainsley’s high-school quarterback boyfriend, Ryder, was one of the strippers; he crossed himself before taking off his pants. “This is not crazy, baby,” Ainsley reassured him. “This is free.”
Sheridan does his research: His series revolve around informed, nuanced compacts and conflicts – between Indigenous land developers and wealthy white ranchers onis no exception. Every episode made me think anew about the deals and deceits that power the world. Of course, everyone is pro-oil. The roughnecks on “the Patch” – the working men Sheridan purports to love – scorn government regulations, even though unsafe equipment frequently maims and kills them. The billionaires who attend fancy dinners applaud speeches about thwarting green energy policies. Even Ryder, during a romantic swim in a reservoir lit by the burning gas of an oil well, coos to Ainsley about how wind turbines kill whales.
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