{"id":41107,"date":"2026-02-07T06:27:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41107"},"modified":"2026-02-07T06:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:28:07","slug":"landman-season-2-written-by-taylor-sheridan-directed-by-stephan-kay-starring-billy-bob-thorton-demi-moore-andy-garcia-ali-carter-and-sam-elliott-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41107","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Landman: Season 2&#8221; written by Taylor Sheridan, directed by Stephan Kay, starring Billy Bob Thorton, Demi Moore, Andy Garcia, Ali Carter and Sam Elliott \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z102425landman_s2_pt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Landman: Season 2<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(2026)<\/p>\n<p>Created by: <strong>Taylor Sheridan, Christian Wallace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Stephen Kay<\/strong> (Eps. 1-10)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Teleplay: <strong>Taylor Sheridan<\/strong> (Eps. 1-10)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Billy Bob Thornton, Ali Larter<\/strong><strong>, Jacob Lofland, Michelle Randolph, Paulina Chavez, Kayla Wallace, Mark Collie, James Jordan, Demi Moore, Andy Garcia, Sam Elliott, Colm Feore, Mustafa Speaks, Dougie Hall, K.C. Clyde, Stefania Spampinato, Guy Burnet <\/strong>and<strong> Francesca Xuereb.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tommy Norris (Thorton) oversees the day-to-day operations for the M-Tex oil company.\u00a0 It&#8217;s Tommy&#8217;s job to make sure everything runs smoothly and the company makes money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monty Miller owned M-Tex.\u00a0 Since his death it&#8217;s become clear that although he was a billionaire (on paper), his dealings behind the scenes have the company on the precipice of losing everything.\u00a0 With Monty dead, his wife Cami, who has no experience in business, is owner of M-Tex.\u00a0 Tommy encourages Cami to sell the company.\u00a0 The sale would bring Cami generational wealth.\u00a0 Tami is set on moving forward with a drill that has a 10% chance of success.\u00a0 If they strike oil, the money earned would be exponentially more than selling the business.\u00a0 But if the drill doesn&#8217;t produce, Cami would lose everything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to finance the new drill, Cami goes to Danny &#8220;Gallino&#8221; Morrell.\u00a0 Morrell is a financier on the surface, but behind the scenes runs a drug cartel.\u00a0 Cami ignored Tommy&#8217;s warnings about Morrell.\u00a0 Morrell also has his hooks in Tommy&#8217;s son&#8217;s wildcat wells.<\/p>\n<p>To complicate matters, Tommy&#8217;s 80 year old father has come to live with him and his daughter is about to leave for college.\u00a0 Tommy cannot catch a break.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taylor Sheridan, the show&#8217;s creator, returns to write all ten episodes of season two.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stephen Kay, who directed six of the ten episodes in season one, returns to direct all ten in season two. Kay is known for directing episodes of <em>The Shield, Sons of Anarchy, The Punisher, Yellowstone, Mayor of Kingstown, Lioness, 1883, 1923<\/em> and one of my favorite films, <em>Get Carter (2000)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The casting from the biggest to the smallest roles is on point.\u00a0 Standouts include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Billy Bob Thorton<\/strong> was born to play Tommy Norris.\u00a0 Thorton is an excellent actor, and I&#8217;ve loved him in several roles.\u00a0 This may be my favorite.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ali Larter<\/strong> is excellent in a role that I love to dislike.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Michelle Randolph<\/strong> plays Elizabeth Strafford in <em>1923<\/em>.\u00a0 What a different character than the one she plays in <em>Landman<\/em>.\u00a0 She&#8217;s excellent in both.\u00a0 I guess that&#8217;s why they call it acting.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Jacob Lofland\u00a0<\/strong>is more than holding his own.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen Lofland before in <em>Mud<\/em> and <em>Justified<\/em>, but in <em>Landman<\/em> he shines.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Paulina Chavez<\/strong> continues to shine.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Kayla Wallace <\/strong>owns her role as the lawyer who goes for the throat in every interaction.\u00a0 This season we also get to see another side of her.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>James Jordan\u00a0<\/strong>is fun to watch.\u00a0 He has a supporting role in this and <em>Lioness<\/em>.\u00a0 He helps make both shows so good.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Colm Feore<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;ve loved him in every scene he&#8217;s in.\u00a0 Great addition to the show.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Andy Garc\u00eda &#8211; <\/strong>projects the right combination of charm and menace.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Demi Moore<\/strong> &#8211; is perfect.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mustafa Speaks<\/strong> &#8211; plays Theodore &#8220;Boss&#8221; Ramone, the lead oil crewman on Cooper&#8217;s second crew.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to see more of this character.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Francesca Xuereb<\/strong> &#8211; plays Cheyenne, a stripper turned physical therapist Tommy hires to help his dad.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never seen Xuereb before, but she&#8217;s one to keep an eye on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Landman:<\/strong><\/em> <strong><em>Season 2 <\/em><\/strong>gets my highest recommendation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>Landman: Season 2<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(2026) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z020726zview_landman_s2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landman: Season 2\u00a0(2026) Created by: Taylor Sheridan, Christian Wallace Director: Stephen Kay (Eps. 1-10) Teleplay: Taylor Sheridan (Eps. 1-10) Stars:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41108,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41107\/revisions\/41108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}