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Positive:
14
Mixed:
10
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews
Nov 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Better than “Goliath," “Landman” lets Thornton convey the emotions that color a “cigarettes and Dr Pepper” kind of guy. The role fits better than a well-worn pair of jeans and, like his trusty boots, never lets him down. He’s one of the best actors of the season in a show that could be one of the best of this or any year.
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Dec 10, 2025
Season 2 Review:
The first few new episodes set up higher stakes and deeper, more slow-burning problems than those of the first season, which often had a snafu-of-the-week formulaic quality. The writing is a degree subtler; there are fewer complaints about green tech and more anti-corporatist spiels. .... Tommy and Angela’s post-divorce reunion, against both of their better judgments, becomes a source of winning stability in Season 2.
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The TimesNov 12, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Those on the fence won’t change their mind about this show after watching another season. However, for roughnecks who have been punching holes waiting for their next dose of Texas tea, the return of Landman once again drills deep into a different perspective on American life.
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Nov 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
“Landman” has conspicuous gaps, and some of the disjointedness that characterizes a TV empire with many offshoots and a single author. But these weak points are continually offset by an evocative sense of place not replicated by TV in this corner of the country since “Friday Night Lights.”
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LooperNov 15, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Once again, Sheridan confidently delivers an old-fashioned and gritty melodrama populated with tough-as-nails men and women who never back down from achieving whatever goals they have in mind. This time, however, things happen to be slightly lighter and funnier than expected.
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Nov 15, 2024TV Guide MagazineDec 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Unfortunately, this isn't a one-man show, and everyone else--cardboard heroes, villains and especially the caricatured women (including Ali Larter as his spoiled, ridiculous sexpot ex-wife)--could use a tune-up. [9 - 29 Dec 2024, p.4]
ColliderNov 15, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The problems arise when Landman's ambitious scope fails to thread all the necessary needles. The series never truly grapples with the interconnected ecosystem it's trying to depict. The narrative infrastructure rests upon wealth inequality and racism while barely scratching the surface with legitimate or thought-provoking insight.
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Nov 17, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Season one’s minimal plotting didn’t leave season two much to work with, but it’s still surprising that “Death And A Sunset” features no follow-up to the finale’s other big cliffhanger. .... So…hooray, welcome Sam Elliott to the Landman cast! And…oh no, his character is horrible and sexist. Why can’t it be all fun?
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Nov 15, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The underlying themes — including the world’s reliance on an industry that could destroy the planet — could not be timelier and more provocative. As the episodes progressed, however, and Sheridan proceeded to double, triple, and quadruple down with his tired takes on women, it was hard to maintain that same level of enthusiasm.
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Nov 15, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Big stars (not always well-used), big melodramatic swings (not always well-executed), and big tonal detours that left me unsure if Landman is meant to be at least semi-comedic. There’s a huge ensemble but very few fully conceived characters, just lots of Stetson-wearing dogmatic monologues waiting to happen.
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IndieWireNov 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
“Landman” isn’t fun enough (not that it’s trying to be), funny enough (which it does go for), dramatic enough (beyond the eye-rolling soap opera elements), authentic enough (why else spend all that time watching people work?), or entertaining enough to merit our attention.
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RogerEbert.comNov 15, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The drama is limp, and the out-of-nowhere jokes make it even worse. .... Thornton's sleepy truth-teller pulls many of his scenes together with his magnetic drawl, but the rest of the cast feels on autopilot. Sheridan, it seems, is tapped out, and there isn't much ink left to mine from his pen. Best move on to the next well.
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Nov 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The series would be bad enough if it was just dull and insipid, which it is, but it comes with a intensely off-putting bit of male gaze that makes the series read as soft-core porn for old men who want to leer at teenage girls without any repercussions. It verges on outright disgusting, set against a generic setting and plot beats copied from old "Yellowstone" scripts.
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