Title: Landman
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Ali Larter, Jacob Lofland, Michelle Randolph, Paulina Chávez, Kayla Wallace, Mark Collie, James Jordan
Director/Creator: Taylor Sheridan, Christian Wallace
Rating: 3.5/5
Episodes: 5

This oil industry melodrama set in the boom-towns of West-Texas is about fortune seekers and the world of oil rigs. The series follows roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom that changes the geopolitics of the region.“Landman” is a potent combination of big business, family conflicts and horrific on-the-job accidents.

Landman is an antihero drama replete with cursing, violence, and nudity. We’re introduced to Tommy in a vulnerable spot, being held at gunpoint by a drug cartel enforcer. Tommy, has the ability to talk himself out of the trickiest pickle and does just that.

Midland-based Tommy Norris(Billy Bob Thornton) is the titular Landman, an on-the-ground oil patch manager who works for MTex Oil owned by Fort Worth businessman Monty Miller (Jon Hamm) and his wife Cami (Demi Moore). There’s plentiful drama for Tommy to deal with - he not only negotiates drilling leases with Mexican drug cartels but also does his best to see that widows of burned alive rig workers get compensation. Problems keep cropping up though. His moody college dropout son Cooper (Jacob Lofland),is working on a drilling crew with veteran wildcatters Luis (Emilio Rivera) and Armando (Michael Peña) and even has lovely Ariana (Paulina Chávez) take a shine to him.