Landman is the latest Paramount Plus original series from Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan. The 10-episode drama takes place in the Permian Basin of west Texas, the highest-producing oil field in the United States, and features Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris. He’s a weather-beaten crisis executive for M-Tex Oil, whose high-pressured job involves leasing the land, managing the crewmen who work on it, and finding solutions to the many catastrophes that arise in such a dangerous environment.
Moments into the first episode its clear that Tommy (Thornton) has quite a set of cojones on him. Bound and blindfolded, two armed Mexican cartel members idly monitor him until Tommy's Texan twang breaks the silence. He needs to use the little boys’ room. His request falls on deaf ears until he asks en Español, which provokes first sniggers, then outrage as one of them clobbers him with his weapon. Yet Tommy remains composed. Even when a more senior criminal member enters, and, after a brief parlay with his colleague, casually shoots him right in front of Tommy.
