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Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the oil boom in Taylor Sheridan’s neo-Western drama Landman. Caught between multi-million-dollar corporations like M-Tex Oil and the oil riggers who wake before dawn to get to work, Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) serves as a crisis manager, bridging the gap between the top and bottom of the oil industry.
Tommy might dress like a cowboy, but he’s wiser than any CEO, lawyer, or millennial yuppie combined. He’s learned the hard way how unpredictable the business can be, and decades of experience have given him the confidence to call out those who look down on the profession. If there's one reason to watch Landman, it's this scene alone, where Tommy challenges common misconceptions about the oil industry and sets the record straight.
Billy Bob Thornton Challenges Clean Energy in This Viral 'Landman' Scene
No other scene sums up Landman better than the wind turbine debate in Season 1, Episode 3, featuring Tommy’s famous rant about so-called “clean energy.” As an outside attorney protecting M-Tex Oil's interests, Rebecca Falcone (Kayla Wallace) has her own negative preconceptions about the oil industry. Coming from the city, she looks down on people like Tommy, disagreeing with his fracking practices and aggressive, profit-driven approach to business, which she believes comes at the environment's expense. So when they drive past a field of wind turbines, she's surprised to see renewable energy operating so close to an oil field. She assumes clean energy could be a viable choice if the industry actually made an effort.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz
Which Taylor Sheridan
Show Do You Belong In?
Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn't write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
FIND YOUR WORLD →
01
Where does your power come from? In Sheridan's world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
ALand, legacy, and a name that's been feared and respected for generations. BKnowing the deal better than anyone else in the room — and being willing to walk away first. CReputation. I've earned it the hard way, and everyone in the room knows it. DBeing the only person both sides will talk to. That makes me indispensable — and dangerous.
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02
Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan's universe is always absolute — and always costly.
AFamily — blood or chosen. The ranch, the name, the people who carry it with me. BThe company — or whoever's signing the cheques. Loyalty follows the contract. CMy crew. The men who stood with me when it counted — I don't abandon them for anything. DMy community — even when my community is a powder keg and I'm the only thing stopping it from blowing.
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03
Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it's crossed.
AQuietly, decisively, and in a way that sends a message to everyone watching. BI outmanoeuvre them legally, financially, and politically before they even know I've moved. CDirectly. Old school. You cross me, you hear about it to your face — and then you deal with the consequences. DI absorb it, calculate the fallout, and find the move that keeps the whole system from collapsing.
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04
Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan's worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
AWide open land — mountains, sky, silence. Somewhere you can see trouble coming from a mile away. BThe oil fields of West Texas — brutal, lucrative, and indifferent to whoever happens to be standing on top of them. CA mid-size city where the rules haven't quite caught up yet — fertile ground for someone with vision and nerve. DA rust-belt town built around a prison — where everyone's life is shaped by what's inside those walls.
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05
How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
AI do what has to be done to protect what's mine. I'll answer for it eventually — but not today. BGrey is just business. The line moves depending on what's at stake, and I move with it. CI have a code — it's not the law's code, but it's mine, and I don't break it. DI've made peace with it. Keeping the peace requires compromises most people don't have the stomach for.
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06
What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they're defending.
AA way of life that the modern world is doing everything it can to erase. BMy position — and the leverage that comes with being the person everyone needs to close a deal. CRelevance. I've been away, I've been written off — and I'm proving that was a mistake. DWhatever fragile order I've managed to build — because without it, everything burns.
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07
How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan's world is never given — it's established, maintained, and constantly tested.
ABy example and force of will. People follow me because they believe in what I'm protecting — and because they know what happens if they don't. BThrough negotiation and leverage. I don't need people to like me — I need them to need me. CBy being the smartest, most experienced person in the room and making sure everyone quietly knows it. DBy being the calm centre of a situation that would spiral without me — and accepting that nobody thanks you for it.
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08
Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
AThey'll learn. Or they won't. Either way, the land was here before them and it'll be here after. BI figure out what they want, what they're worth, and whether they're an asset or a problem — fast. CI was the outsider once. I give them a chance — one — to show they understand respect. DNew players destabilise everything I've built. I assess the threat and manage it before it manages me.
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09
What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
AMy family's peace — maybe their innocence. The ranch demands everything, and I've let it take too much. BRelationships, time, any version of a normal life. The job eats everything that isn't nailed down. CYears. Decades in some cases. Time I can't get back — but I'm not done yet. DMy conscience, mostly. And the ability to ever fully trust anyone on either side of the wall.
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10
When it's over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan's characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
AThat I held the line. That the land is still ours and everything I did was worth it. BThat I was the best at what I did and that no deal ever got closed without me at the table. CThat I built something real, somewhere nobody expected it, and I did it on my own terms. DThat I kept the peace when nobody else could — and that the town is still standing because of it.
REVEAL MY SHOW →
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you're complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world's indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you're willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family's weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what's yours, you don't escalate — you finish it. You're not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone's world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn't make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You're a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they'll do to get it. You're not naive enough to think this world is fair. You're smart enough to be the one deciding who it's fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you're not above reminding people that the two aren't mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they'd be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they're more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don't need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you're the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky's world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You've made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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Tommy takes the opportunity to bring her back down to earth. He explains that oil companies own these turbines and use them to power wells in areas without access to electricity. He then points out that manufacturing, transporting, installing, and maintaining wind turbines all require fossil fuels. However, his bigger point is to show just how crucial fossil fuels are: oil is essential to more than just gasoline. It's also used in everyday products like tennis rackets, lipstick, refrigerators, and antihistamines, as well as infrastructure like roads. It's a wake-up call for Rebecca to recognize that the oil industry isn't simply about businessmen making profits; it's also essential to everyday people and the functioning of modern civilization.
Taylor Sheridan Isn't Taking Political Sides in 'Landman'
Landman might not set out to be a political show, but its subject matter makes politics difficult to avoid, especially since oil is a hot topic in environmental discussions. However, as Thornton has explained, Sheridan isn't interested in taking sides in the oil discourse with Landman. The point of the series isn't to promote "pro-oil," but rather to show what goes on "behind the curtains at how this works." The series explores the lives of the bosses who own oil companies, middlemen who manage them, the riggers out in the oil fields, and the communities affected by the industry. It's a portrait of everyday life in a town where oil rigs show a reality that not everyone gets to experience.
Instead of oversimplifying the oil industry as something entirely good or bad, Sheridan exposes the complicated realities behind something the public might initially perceive as one or the other. This is part of why the show has resonated with audiences. Landman highlights an irony of modern society, where even the pursuit of a more environmentally friendly world involves compromises. With ongoing discussions about climate change, environmental consciousness, and the oil industry's role in modern life, Landman is worth watching for anyone interested in the gray areas of the energy debate.
'Landman' Season 3 Expected to Premiere in 2027 Following Production Delays
Image via Paramount+It’s been a long time coming, but Landman Season 3 is officially underway. While the first two seasons followed a steady November release schedule in 2024 and 2025, Season 3 has fallen behind. As of September 2026, the new season is finally in production. Although an official release date has yet to be announced, Season 3 is expected to shoot “through the first quarter of next year,” meaning production will likely continue until March 2027 at the latest.
Last time on Landman Season 2, Tommy unexpectedly climbed the ranks at M-Tex in the aftermath of Monty’s (Jon Hamm) death. With Monty’s wife, Cami (Demi Moore), taking over her late husband’s position as CEO, things get complicated when a cartel-connected criminal expresses interest in investing in M-Tex. Meanwhile, Tommy’s son Cooper (Jacob Lofland) branches out on his own in the oil industry. However, given his lack of business expertise, Cooper finds himself blindsided by people who claim they want to help him. As it continues to follow people getting knee-deep in the oil business, Landman is just as much about the people caught up in the industry as it is about the politics surrounding it.
Landman
Release Date November 17, 2024
Network Paramount
English (US) ·