“Landman” is nearly back.
The second season of Taylor Sheridan’s contemporary drama, about an oil company fixer perfectly played by Billy Bob Thornton, returns to Paramount+ Nov. 16, which is about record time for a streaming series. (The first season only ended in January of this year.) And before you return to the plains of Texas, you can watch a trailer for the new season below. Giddy up.
As the trailer promises, this new season should give much more screen time to Demi Moore. In the first season, she wasn’t utilized much. She was there, but mostly warmed the bench, as oil company leader Jon Hamm’s wife. With Hamm – spoiler alert! – dying before the end of the first season, it left Moore in charge, who elevated Thornton’s status within the company.
Not only does the first look at season two (below) bring more of a Moore presence — “The only difference between me and my husband is I’m meaner,” Cami tells a room full of potential investors — but the new season also pits Tommy and Cami against in each other in their new partnership. “She owns the company, but I run it,” Tommy declares, as violence once again rears its head, both on and off the oil fields.
That all sounds well and good but there are a number of complications threatening them both, including a cartel boss played by velvety smoothness by Andy Garcia, who was introduced in the season finale.
Also joining the fun this season is Sam Elliott, a Sheridan-verse vet from “1883,” who plays Thornton’s father. As is glimpsed in the trailer, we also see Ali Larter (as Thornton’s on-again, off-again wife), Jacob Lofland (as Thornton and Larter’s son), Michelle Randolph (as their daughter) and Paulina Chavez (as Lofland’s love interest).
When speaking recently to The Hollywood Reporter, Larter had teased that the highly anticipated second season would be a rollercoaster after the dramatic cliffhanger finale around Tommy’s oil business future. “You hold the heart of the show being the family, and then you have all these other storylines. It’s game on,” she said of Tommy’s new life pressures, which include a partnership with a local cartel led by Andy Garcia’s character. “The beauty of their marriage is that you get to see so much humanity in Tommy because of how he is with Angela.”
The series, co-created by Christian Wallace, is based on Wallace’s Texas Monthly podcast “Boomtown,” about the oil industry in Texas. Other Sheridan series “Mayor of Kingstown” and “Tulsa King” are also returning to Paramount+ this fall, while a suite of Sheridan-produced “Yellowstone” spinoffs are set to debut next year.
“Landman” Season 2 hits Paramount+ on Nov. 16.
