‘Landman’ Season 2 Continues To Crush The Woke Women Of ‘The View’ With Just A Few Words
Taylor Sheridan continues to take shots at “The View” with his hit show “Landman.” The popular Paramount+ TV series starring Billy Bob Thornton is one of the most-talked about productions in entertainment at the moment. It’s not hard to understand why. The cast is packed, and it’s an absolutely wild show. Ridiculous? Without question. Very entertaining? Absolutely.
“Landman” keeps crushing “The View.”
Sheridan is well-known for seemingly pushing his own personal opinions and beliefs through his shows. Billy Bob Thornton has even said as much publicly. It’s definitely fair to say he’s no fan of “The View.” The wokesters on the ABC talk show were crushed in an earlier episode in the season by Tommy Norris (Thornton). In the Jan. 11 episode of Landman, T.L. (Sam Elliott) tells his son, Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton), that he took his advice and started tuning into the daytime talk show hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines and Alyssa Farrah Griffin.
“I might watch that View later,” T.L. told Tommy, who was surprised his dad wasn’t asking to tag along with him for the day to keep himself busy.
“You’re right, they’re pretty funny,” T.L. said of the hosts. “I don’t think they’re trying to be funny, but they are.”
T.L. picked up the habit of watching the daytime talk show thanks to Tommy, who told him about it in a December episode of Landman. Tommy described The View as a “bunch of pissed off millionaires bitching about how much they hate millionaires — and [President Donald] Trump and men and you and me — and everybody else they got a bee up their ass about.”
Tommy described the show as “pretty funny,” but T.L. wasn’t sold on the idea at the time. “It ain’t joke funny, it’s like fart in church funny, you know what I mean?” Tommy explained, but T.L. said, “That don’t sound funny, either.”
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Well, Sheridan had a little juice left to squeeze when it came to mocking “The View,” and he did it in the second to last episode of season two. The theme? It is funny but not for the reasons the hosts might think!
It’s pretty clear that Sheridan is very-aware of the audience he’s catering to and the kind of people who enjoy his content. Is there a single “Yellowstone” or “Landman” fan who also tunes in regularly to watch a bunch of millionaire women moan and complain on ABC about nonsense? I’d be shocked if you couldn’t count all the people who fall into that category on one hand.
“The View” is an unbearable woke mess. (Photo by Paula Lobo/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)
The very meta mention of The View is emblematic of creator Taylor Sheridan’s overall writing style. As Ali Larter — who plays Tommy’s ex-wife, Angela, with whom he’s reconciled — put it, “Taylor is a provocateur.” “He loves to write characters that make people respond, that initiate a reaction, a feeling. And I think that what’s incredible about our show, and a lot of the shows that Taylor makes, is that they’re all wildly original and authentic to themselves,” Larter, 49, told PEOPLE ahead of the premiere of season 2. His unique style makes for a “really exciting” set, she said. “This is why he’s such a genius — you would never know on paper that [a show about oil] would be so riveting or so many people would love it — different generations of people who live in different places. That they find a connection to it, I think, is super fascinating.”
The Landman season 2 finale premieres Sunday, Jan. 18, on Paramount+.
