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Is Landman Funny?
Taylor Sheridan’s latest may not have actual jokes, but it does have a perpetually cranky Billy Bob Thornton, and that might be enough.
And now, an important one for Vulture critics Roxana Hadadi and Nicholas Quah to ponder: Is his newest series, the Friday Night Lights –esque Landman, based on the podcast Boomtown and starring a perpetually cranky Billy Bob Thornton, funny? It’s weird because half of this show is Sheridan doing his typical “let me defend the forgotten American” thing, so oil-company fixer Tommy, played by Thornton, is constantly breaking into speeches about how important oil is to our economy and how silly it is to think we can replace it. The only exception I can think of is in a scene where Tommy’s lawyer Rebecca tears into opposing counsel for infantilizing her — but then we learn that she was lying about her father’s tragic military backstory to score points in the fight, so we’re still returning to a baseline of “don’t trust women.”
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