Some of the plot is unveiled.
The second season of Landman is set to release on November 16 – almost exactly a year after the show’s first season (it aired on November 17, 2024). That means that we’re just a couple of months away from seeing the star-studded cast of Billy Bob Thornton, Demi Moore, Andy Garcia, Sam Elliott, Ali Larter, Jacob Lofland, and Michelle Randolph – among others – return to our television screens.
As the excitement builds for season 2, Billy Bob Thornton, who stars as Tommy Norris, a crisis executive and “fixer” for M-Tex Oil, shared that season 2 is expected to be a “slow burn.” While that is not out of the norm for a Taylor Sheridan plotline, given the tense final scenes of season one, it’s hard to imagine that season two will be that.
Here’s Thornton’s quote to Entertainment Weekly:
“Now that the audience knows all the characters, Taylor was able to really dive into the relationships more. Last season, we had to explain what this business was all about and who the people are. This season, he was able to really focus in the first few episodes on the family dynamic and the business dynamic. But this one really ramps up as it goes on, and there’s more and more intensity.”
The second season’s official synopsis implies that a boiling point will be reached one way or another, as Tommy Norris will undoubtedly be forced to put out some fires:
“As oil rises from the earth, so do secrets – and Tommy Norris’s (Thornton) breaking point may be closer than he realizes. Facing mounting pressure from M-Tex Oil, Cami Miller (Moore), and the shadow of his kin, survival in West Texas isn’t noble – it’s brutal. And sooner or later something’s got to break.”
However, it’s hard to imagine that season 2 will be a slow burn after watching the trailer.
Looks pretty electric, eh?
Following the positive response to the first trailer, Landman is gifting fans with another, further detailing what’s in store for this tense season in Midland, Texas. And the final season 2 trailer reveals a significant piece of information about outside sources that could have led to Monty Miller’s death.
At the end of season 1, Monty Miller suffered a heart attack, leading to multiple bypass surgeries, and was too weak to accept a heart transplant. After his final surgery, he was placed on life support, but sadly, his heart gave out and stopped beating. Monty Miller passed with his family around him in a hospital bed, and upon his death, his wife, Cami Miller, became the new head of their oil company.
While Tommy Norris has made it very clear that Cami Miller owns the company, but he runs it now, that does not mean that Cami is not in the weeds of the company’s financials, making sure it stays alive. In the first trailer, we hear Cami Miller share that, with taking over M-Tex Oil, she prays she does not find any bodies hanging in the closet, per se.
“I just pray that you don’t find something that makes the life you’ve lived a lie.”
In the final season 2 trailer, it appears that she has found some dirt that makes the life she’s lived partially a lie, and it could have been some of the outside factors contributing to the extreme amount of stress that Monty Miller was under in season 1, eventually being a factor in his death.
“I have gone through every email, every file, and I now know why Monty was so stressed.”
The clip then cuts to a male voice reading a laundry list of legal issues Monty was presumably facing after his wife shared that she’d dug through all of M-Tex Oil’s documents.
“Embezzlement, insurance fraud, wire fraud…”
It then appears that Rebecca Falcone, played by Kayla Wallace, responds to these notions with:
“Oh god.”
Later in the trailer, a clip shows law enforcement agents approaching Cami Miller, suggesting M-Tex Oil is in some legal hot water, and could explain some of the internal struggles that Monty was going through in season 1 as he tried to keep everything together.
Buckle up, folks, season 2 looks electric.
