Billy Bob Thornton stars as an oil-company fixer in the new Paramount+ drama.
No one comes to aTaylor Sheridanjoint for nuanced female characters.
The ladies ofLandman(premiering Nov. 17) are not so lucky.
Billy Bob Thornton in ‘Landman’.Emerson Miller/Paramount+
Generates over 4.3 trillion dollars a year in revenue.
Every company has a version of Tommy.
Thornton manages to make that kind of exaggerated machismo immensely entertaining.
Michelle Randolph, Ali Larter and Billy Bob Thornton in ‘Landman’.Emerson Miller/Paramount+
Its worth noting that none of the men inLandman, Tommy included, are portrayed as saints.
Theyre broken, sexist, slovenly, selfish, greedy, patronizing, ignorant, and more.
Shes a f—ing brunette!
Jon Hamm and Demi Moore in ‘Landman’.Emerson Miller/Paramount+
Think they hired me cause Im pretty?
I charge $900 an hour, you asshole.
Its the bang out ofyou-go-girltriumph that only a man could script.
Readers, we havent even made it to Demi Moore yet.
The extremely famous actress, who plays Montys elegant wife, Cami, is featured prominently in ads forLandman.
She does not, however, feature much at all in the first half of the season.
(Paramount+ made five of the dramas 10 episodes available for review.)
In one episode, Cami wordlessly makes a smoothie in the background and then disappears.
She had a choice, he sneers.
And she chose a shortcut, which is always the longest road.
Setting aside the harsh moralizing and startling lack of empathy, Tommy does have a point.
