After several months of rumors, it’s official: “Landman” has landed a second season on Paramount Plus.
The season 2 pick-up isn’t much of a surprise, given the sheer success of the first installment of Taylor Sheridan’s oil industry drama, which bills itself as “an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so big, it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics.”
The first season of the neo-Western featured the most-watched global premiere and finale of any series in the streamer’s history, pulling in 14.6 million viewers in its first week on Paramount Plus last November, per Variety. It also nabbed star Billy Bob Thornton — who plays Texas “landman” Tommy Norris, a crisis manager at M-Tex Oil — a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Drama Series.
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