Landman · Season 1 · Paramount+
Landman Season 1
Landman Season 1 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 7.0/10. 10 episodes on Paramount+ from 17 November 2024.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Landman launched November 17, 2024 on Paramount+, adapting Christian Wallace's podcast Boomtown into a 10-episode West Texas oil drama with Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris - a landman who negotiates mineral rights while mediating between roughnecks, corporate interests, and cartel-adjacent criminal networks. Critics scored it at 78 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus centred on Thornton's lived-in authority as the season's strongest argument. Reviewers were more divided on whether the Sheridan framework offered formal novelty beyond the Yellowstone template. The 57 percent audience Popcornmeter score tracked genuine viewer ambivalence about the show's tonal register and its commitment to the stoic-fixer-in-hostile-territory genre geometry.
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Standout Episodes
The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.
- E1Landman8.2
A brisk, sturdy pilot that turns land deals, a crashed plane, and family chaos into one pressure cooker for Tommy Norris.
Full review of E1 → - E2Dreamers and Losers8.1
A strong second hour that turns industrial disaster into grim paperwork and bodily cost, with silence doing almost as much work as dialogue.
Full review of E2 → - E3Hell Has a Front Yard7.8
A tense, well-shaped hour where waiting becomes the threat and Tommy's need for control starts slipping in public.
Full review of E3 → - E4The Sting of Second Chances8.2
A tense legal hour finds its real punch when the rig accident turns liability talk into flesh-and-blood consequence.
Full review of E4 → - E5Where Is Home8.2
A sharp, steady hour where oil-field procedure and family strain lock together until even small talk feels loaded with fallout.
Full review of E5 → - E6Beware the Second Beating8.5
A bruising hour that turns Tommy's usual swagger into liability and lets silence expose the cost of keeping this world running.
Full review of E6 → - E7All Roads Lead to a Hole8.2
A tense, number-crunching hour that turns deal terms into character x-rays and leaves the crew carrying everyone else's risk.
Full review of E7 → - E8Clumsy, This Life8.3
A sharp crisis hour where settlement money and military swagger expose an oilfield leadership class reaching for control with exactly the wrong tools.
Full review of E8 → - E9WolfCamp8.4
A taut penultimate hour that turns secrecy, threats, and corporate theater into one sustained squeeze on everyone holding shaky power.
Full review of E9 → - E10The Crumbs of Hope8.6
A tense finale that turns succession, dealmaking, and moral disgust into one ugly knot, then leaves Tommy choking on it.
Full review of E10 →