Spoilers for the primary 4 episodes of Landman Season 1 are forward!
Up to now, as Landman has aired on the 2024 TV schedule, I’ve been enamored by Billy Bob Thornton’s fascinating fixer Tommy Norris, AKA, the intermediary for an enormous oil firm. Together with his story, nonetheless, come an entire bunch of different storylines revolving round characters near him. Now, contemplating we’re 4 episodes into Season 1 and kind of have a way of who everyone seems to be, I’m able to make a declare: I feel we have to see extra of Cooper and fewer of Angela and Ainsley.
I Need To See Extra Of Cooper Working Out In The Area
From the bounce, I’ve been fascinated by Cooper. Bodily, he’s not the form of man you’d count on to see working the fields, after which watching him battle with a painful quantity of persistence is concurrently troublesome and tremendous attention-grabbing. Nonetheless, understanding that Jacob Lofland’s character is doing this to personal his personal oil firm sooner or later is what actually piqued my curiosity.
To be clear, I’m not taken with seeing extra of the odd subplot the place Cooper is form of serving to and/or drawn to one of many ladies who misplaced her associate within the explosion initially of the season. I simply need to see extra of him on the job.
Up to now, we’ve actually solely watched him get harm or somebody on his group undergo an damage. I need to see extra of his comradery together with his co-workers, extra conversations together with his dad in regards to the enterprise generally, and extra apparent steps he’s taking to maneuver up.
Clearly, that may be performed out over a really lengthy interval. Nonetheless, I feel they might present extra of it now, particularly since there’s one other storyline we might see much less of.
I Need To See Much less Of Angela And Ainsley Mendacity Round
Should you take a look at a few of the crucial evaluations of Landman, a lot of them deal with how ladies are represented within the present, particularly noting Tommy’s daughter Ainsley and ex-wife Angela. Whereas I feel these characters have potential, I’d need to agree with the critics. Up to now, these ladies have actually solely lounged round in swimsuits whereas the lads who stay with Tommy attempt to not ogle at them.
Fairly frankly that obtained outdated about two seconds after it began occurring, and now we’ve been coping with it for 4 episodes.
Don’t get me improper, I need to see Ali Larter’s explosive ex-wife and Michelle Randolph’s daughter who’s making an attempt to determine life out. I feel they’ve the potential to be such sturdy characters on the present. Nonetheless, in the meanwhile, the scripts aren’t giving them that. And I’d like them to do one thing apart from lounge round whereas the lads act form of creepy round them.
It’s bizarre, pointless and a waste of display time and two doubtlessly phenomenal characters.
My hope is that there’s a greater plan for these two ladies, although. I’m intrigued by the thought of Angela and Ainsley shifting in with Tommy, and I actually need to see the entire household dynamic with Cooper being round as nicely. Now, that’s a narrative that has potential!
Nonetheless, sadly, that hasn’t been explored on Landman but.
We did get a small style of the household nuances in Episode 4 when Angela and Tommy opened up about experiencing a bust within the oil trade, powerful, and that was an attention-grabbing story worthy of extra display time. So, right here’s hoping it should get some, and provides us a narrative worthy of Angela and Ainsley.
To see if we get roughly of each these storylines, you’ll be able to watch Landman with a Paramount+ subscription each Sunday.