- Network: Paramount+
- Series Premiere Date: Nov 17, 2024
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Renewable energy, the anti-smoking lobby and fussy doctors also get it in the neck but, as usual with a Sheridan creation, the old-school values have an underdog morality at their core that makes Tommy and Landman difficult to hate.
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Playing around in this world is harmless enough and a fine waste of time.
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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]
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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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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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The sheer charisma and loquaciousness of Billy Bob Thornton cover up some of the gaps in the material, but many of the plots and characters feel awfully thin, and others come across so retrograde as to be self-parody.
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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.