{"id":126177,"date":"2024-11-15T15:42:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T08:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126177"},"modified":"2024-11-15T15:42:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T08:42:49","slug":"taylor-sheridans-middling-oil-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126177","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Sheridan\u2019s middling oil drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking back, it\u2019s odd that Billy Bob Thornton first became famous for the Oscar-winning 1996 indie <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sling Blade<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a movie where his character mostly communicates in grunts. Thornton is one of the big and small screen\u2019s all-time great talkers, adept at laying down a line of patter at once amusing and mesmerizing. It\u2019s a skill he puts to great use as the star of writer-producer Taylor Sheridan\u2019s new Paramount+ series <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. As an oil-company fixer named Tommy Norris\u2014the kind of can-do, dirty-handed field operative who greases palms and puts out fires\u2014Thornton never misses an opportunity to riff. In a voice halfway between a grumpy growl and a relaxed twang\u2014and in colorfully profane terms\u2014Tommy tells everyone within earshot what he knows to be true, whether they like it or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of this makes Tommy Norris part of a line of Sheridan protagonists who claim to see clearly our world\u2019s inevitable ruin, yet are nevertheless determined to do whatever needs to be done to protect their piece of it. He has a lot in common with Dwight Manfredi in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/tulsa-king-review-tv-paramount-plus-sylvester-stallone-1849768956\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tulsa King<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Joe in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lioness<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Mike McClusky in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mayor Of Kingstown<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and\u2014the progenitor of them all\u2014John Dutton III in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yellowstone<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- inlinecontent_1 --> <!-- admarker --> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The big difference? Tommy\u2019s a better hang. He\u2019s much, much funnier. That\u2019s not to say <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a comedy. Co-created by Sheridan and Christian Wallace\u2014and based on the Wallace-hosted podcast <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boomtown<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, about the messiness of the oil game in Texas\u2019s Permian Basin\u2014<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is very much of a piece with Sheridan\u2019s other shows, mixing soap opera and crime drama with earthy observations about The State Of Things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thornton co-stars with Jon Hamm, who plays Monty Miller, the boss of M-Tex, Tommy\u2019s employer. The two go back decades together in the oil business, having ridden out multiple booms and busts. (The pandemic recession of 2020 nearly wiped them out and turned their Midland, Texas homebase into a ghost town, we\u2019re told.) Whenever Tommy isn\u2019t lecturing somebody about the realities of oil, Monty steps in to make more or less the same points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- inlinecontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But they never do it in the same scene\u2014at least not in the five <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> episodes that Paramount+ provided to critics. Hamm and Thornton interact only via telephone in the early going. The fifth episode ends with the promise of a face-to-face meeting; but before that, this show\u2019s two main characters are siloed off in their own storylines. And actually, it\u2019s a stretch to call Monty\u2019s scattered scenes a \u201cstory.\u201d Demi Moore plays his wife Cami, but she barely appears thus far, popping up only to remind her husband to take his heart pills. That\u2019s the extent of the plot that directly involves the Millers up to this point: Monty has health issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- admarker --> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be fair, Monty is also managing\u2014at a distance, via cell\u2014the same crises that preoccupy Tommy. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landman\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s first episode, a drug cartel steals an M-Tex plane and lands it on a private road as part of their smuggling operation; and then a big truck comes barreling through, causing a fatal accident which also destroys millions of dollars\u2019 worth of dope. The bloody mess spawns a federal investigation, a lawsuit, and cartel threats. M-Tex\u2019s problems intensify with a well explosion, witnessed by Cooper Norris (Jacob Lofland), Tommy\u2019s son, who is trying to follow in his father\u2019s roughneck footsteps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for the women on this show, aside from the barely appearing Cami Miller, there are four main female characters, each of which falls more or less into one of Sheridan\u2019s usual types. Ali Larter has the showiest role as Tommy\u2019s ex-wife, Angela, a larger-than-life sensualist who left him for a billionaire during one of the busts but now wants back into his life. Michelle Randolph plays their teenage daughter, Ainsley, who shares her mom\u2019s propensity for skimpy outfits and self-centered choices, failing repeatedly to read the room. Sheridan seems to love these kinds of broadly drawn female characters: forces of nature who drive the men in their lives crazy\u2014and not always with desire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kayla Wallace comes in at the opposite end of the spectrum as Rebecca Savage, a young but ruthless attorney who hates the environmental damage and institutional chauvinism of the oil business and is just as vocal about her point of view as Tommy is about his\u2014only with less of a sense of humor. Then there\u2019s Ariana (Paulina Ch\u00e1vez), the widow of a Mexican-American roughneck, who bonds with Cooper and leans on him when her friends and family in the community aren\u2019t around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- admarker --> <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Landman | Official Trailer | Paramount+\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7zxh49-bsIk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyone who\u2019s watched more than a few episodes of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yellowstone<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will likely recognize pieces of that show\u2019s Beth, Monica, Summer, Mia and Laramie: all those Taylor Sheridan women who tend to drop into slots labeled \u201csteely\u201d or \u201cwild\u201d or \u201cbruised.\u201d They\u2019ll probably also recognize Sheridan\u2019s typical narrative pace in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where nothing much happens for the better part of an hour until suddenly something shocking or violent (or both) occurs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, there are times when <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> barely feels like a television series and more like an op-ed peppered with the occasional explosion. That it\u2019s also pretty easy to watch is a testament to Sheridan\u2019s ability to grab an audience\u2019s attention. His shows always begin with a strong hook and a lot of promise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On that promising side: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the most overtly Texas-bound show since <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friday Night Lights.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (That connection is reinforced by the Andrew Lockington score, which sounds a lot like Explosions In The Sky and W.G. Snuffy Walden.) Sherdian, who wrote each of the first five episodes and directed the first two, has long had an eye for the unique qualities of out-of-the-way American spaces, be they in Montana or Oklahoma or the fictionalized Rustbelt city in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mayor Of Kingstown<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He finds a few of those funky locations here, like a coffee kiosk staffed by bikini-clad baristas, catering to all the oil-workers who are up before dawn, and the combination diner and bar that only has breakfast and dinner menus because \u201clunch\u201d isn\u2019t really a thing in the Permian oil patch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- admarker --> <\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is also filled with fascinating details about the oil business, which attracts the kinds of people who are willing to (or have no choice but to) work around the clock, accept that any given day may feature a fatality, and pack up and leave when times get lean. Even Tommy, who has lived in the basin for decades, describes it as \u201cnot home\u201d and conducts himself accordingly\u2014including by sharing a rented house with other M-Tex employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the main reason to watch <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is Thornton. He brings genuine juice to speeches that shouldn\u2019t be as entertaining as they are: pissy little diatribes about clean-energy zealots, sex workers, anti-smoking regulations, governmental red tape, rapacious bankers, and whatever else is under his skin at the moment. Tommy is exasperating, but he\u2019s also easy to root for, because he drops wry quips constantly, he stands up for M-Tex\u2019s employees, and he uses Big Oil\u2019s indomitability as a pretext to push around hypocrites and sleazebags.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even the first time we meet Tommy, Thornton\u2019s performance is riveting. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s opening scene, he\u2019s tied up in a cartel hideout and laying out the land-lease terms the drug-lords are going to have to accept, unless they want their territory to be flooded with Halliburton mercenaries and DEA agents. Thornton has a bag on his head at the time; but he still has <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that voice<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, weathered yet pleasantly lilting. Sometimes that\u2019s enough.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Landman <\/i><\/b><b>premieres November 17 on Paramount+ <\/b><\/p>\n<p><!-- admarker --> <!-- inlinecontent_2 -->\n                            <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/landman-review-tv-paramount-plus\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back, it\u2019s odd that Billy Bob Thornton first became famous for the Oscar-winning 1996 indie Sling Blade, a movie where his character mostly communicates in grunts. 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