Billy Bob Thornton, Landman
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[Warning: This article contains spoilers for Landman Season 1.]
Landman, super-producer Taylor Sheridan‘s oil industry drama, wrapped up its first season in January. While Paramount+ has not officially renewed the hit series for Season 2, we fully expect it to return, especially because the end of Season 1 left everything unresolved.
The season finale left our Michelob Ultra-swigging, highly imperfect hero Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) in several pickles he’ll have to get out of in Season 2. Following the death of his boss, Monty Miller (Jon Hamm), from a heart attack, Tommy is now the president of M-Tex Oil, a job he did not want. He has to complete negotiations on an exploratory drilling deal Monty was putting together that will bankrupt the company if it doesn’t work out, and he has to do it alongside Rebecca (Kayla Wallace), an attorney he does not trust.
On top of that, he has to deal with the drug cartel that’s moving product across M-Tex’s land. Gallino (Andy Garcia) — Tommy’s new, affably menacing point of contact — wants his new “friend” Tommy to help him get the cartel into the oil business, and managing that not-exactly-consensual relationship will be a huge headache for Tommy.
Plus, Tommy’s (ex)wife Angela (Ali Larter) is high maintenance, his daughter Ainsley (Michelle Randolph) is a handful, and his son Cooper (Jacob Lofland) is in a physically and emotionally dangerous relationship with Ariana (Paulina Chávez), the grieving widow of his dead oil field coworker.
Tommy has a lot on his plate — french fries and mashed potatoes, you could say — and he’ll surely get even more problems added to his pile when Landman returns. Here’s everything we know so far about a potential Season 2.
Has Landman been renewed for Season 2?
Paramount+ has not officially ordered a second season yet. But the streaming service says the show is its most-watched original to date, a claim backed up by its high placement on the Nielsen streaming chart. Paramount has yet to cancel any of Sheridan’s shows, and it seems safe to assume Landman won’t be the first.
In fact, though Paramount+ hasn’t announced anything yet, a second season may already be in the works. In May 2024, months before Season 1 premiered, Landman star Demi Moore told Deadline that she expected to start filming Season 2 in early 2025. “I’ve already completed the first season and I’m excited for us to start the second which will be at the beginning of next year,” she said. Again, nothing is officially, publicly confirmed yet, but we’re 99% sure Landman Season 2 will happen.
Ali Larter and Billy Bob Thornton, Landman
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Landman Season 2 premiere date prediction
It’s hard to predict premiere dates for Taylor Sheridan shows. There are so many factors at play — A-list actor schedules, weather, Sheridan’s mercurial creative process — that it’s easier to just say you’ll see it when it’s ready. But if Landman does in fact go back into production in early 2025, the break between seasons won’t be very long. Lioness, another of Sheridan’s Paramount+ shows, which is arguably an even more complex production than Landman, only took 15 months between Seasons 1 and 2, even with the writers and actors strikes of 2023. So if Demi Moore is correct, we would expect to see Landman Season 2 in late 2025 or early 2026.
Demi Moore, Landman
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Landman Season 2 cast
Most of the Season 1 cast would probably return for Season 2, including:
- Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris, a land manager at M-Tex Oil, whose life is one crisis after another.
- Demi Moore as Cami Miller, Tommy’s friend and the widow of his boss, Monty.
- Ali Larter as Angela Norris, Tommy’s ex-wife with whom he’s rekindled a relationship.
- Michelle Randolph as Ainsley Norris, Tommy and Angela’s daughter, who’s supposedly in high school and dreams of marrying an NFL quarterback.
- Jacob Lofland as Cooper Norris, Tommy and Angela’s son, who plans to start his own oil company to provide for Ariana.
- Kayla Wallace as Rebecca Savage, a shark of an attorney who Monty put in charge of M-Tex alongside Tommy.
- James Jordan as Dale Bradley, a petroleum engineer who manages roughnecks and is Tommy’s roommate.
- Paulina Chávez as Ariana Medina, a young widow who is falling in love with Cooper, but it’s too soon after her husband’s death.
- Colm Feore as Nathan, M-Tex’s general counsel and Tommy’s other roommate.
- Mustafa Speaks as Boss, an experienced roughneck.
- Andy Garcia as Gallino, a high-ranking drug cartel member who wants to do business with Tommy
Jon Hamm only signed on for one season and will not be returning to Landman. It would be strange if he did, as his character Monty died during open heart surgery. “You don’t come back from that,” Hamm told USA Today. “He’s no longer with us.”
Hamm also hinted that Demi Moore, who didn’t do much in Season 1, will have a much bigger role in Season 2. “It’s pretty cool that Taylor said to (Moore), ‘Trust me, I’m going to take care of you. This will be worth your while.’ To say the least,” Hamm said. “Cami’s got so much room to grow and show who she really is. It’s going to be fascinating to watch.”
Landman source material
Landman is based on a Texas Monthly podcast called Boomtown. Boomtown, which ran for 12 episodes between 2019 and 2020, features in-depth reporting on the oil industry in the Permian Basin, America’s most productive oilfield. Boomtown was named one of the 50 best podcasts of 2020 by The Atlantic.
Boomtown was reported, written, and hosted by journalist Christian Wallace, who is the co-creator of Landman alongside Sheridan. Wallace previously worked as a roughneck and as an editor at Texas Monthly.
He told Deadline that some of Landman is “very accurate” about what it’s like to work in the oil and gas industry, while other elements were embellished for the sake of drama and creating compelling characters. “And it’s funny, it depends on who you ask,” he said. “My uncle who works in the oil field for the last 30 years will nitpick every little thing. But I think for the most part, it’s safe to say you get a decent sense of what it’s like working in oil and gas out there.”
Where to watch Landman
Landman Season 1 is now streaming on Paramount+, along with Sheridan’s other shows Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King, 1883, 1923, Lioness, and Lawmen: Bass Reeves.
