The second season of Paramount+’s Landman has come to an end, but did Billy Bob Thornton’s Tommy Norris come out on top. Find out below.
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The show comes from the mind of Taylor Sheridan, the writer of Yellowstone, Sicario and Hell Or High Water, alongside Christian Wallace. It is set within the world of the oil rigs of West Texas, where “roughnecks and wildcat billionaires are fuelling a boom so big it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics”.
It stars Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris, a crisis executive at an oil company, while Ali Larter, Jacob Lofland and Michelle Randolph play members of Norris’ family. Demi Moore, Jon Hamm, Andy Garcia and Sam Elliott all co-star.
Season two debuted on Paramount+ back on November 16 and its 10th and final episode arrived last Sunday (January 18).
The show is based on the podcast series Boomtown, which was hosted by Wallace and produced by Texas Monthly magazine in partnership with Imperative Entertainment in 2019.
NME recently spoke to Thornton about his role in the show. “I love playing the character,” he said. “I think it’s the first time I’ve ever worked on anything where there’s not a bad apple in the bunch. Of course, Taylor wrote Tommy for me so that makes it a lot easier. It fits like a glove in a lot of ways.”
The ending of Landman season two explained: did Tommy still come out on top?
Going into the season two finale, Thornton’s Tommy Norris had been ousted from the M-Tex oil business by Demi Moore’s Cami over strategic disagreements.
Tommy resolves never to work for anyone else ever again, and instead launches a new oil company with those closest to him – his son Cooper, his father T.L. and his close friends Nate and Rebecca. The new operation, CTT Oil Exploration and Cattle, positions Tommy as central and powerful as the show looks forward to its already-commissioned third season.
Rather than accepting another high-paying corporate job, Tommy has rejected that safety net and embraced the autonomy of assuming control of his own interests.
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