[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Landman Season 1 finale.]
No quantity of immaculately served paella or acrobatic intercourse goes to ever make Tommy Norris a romantic. When occasions get powerful, Billy Bob Thornton’s character in Paramount+’s Landman is the primary to name up his ex-wife and present accomplice Angela (Ali Larter) simply to say he loves her. However that’s about all of the romance you’re going to get out of the man.
It’s simply one of many many the explanation why Tommy and Angela are the proverbial oil and water that ought to by no means go collectively. He’s content material dwelling a life working the limitless oil fields of West Texas, and she or he lives life like she is driving a mechanical bull — onerous, quick, and simply thrown off target. And but, their rekindled relationship has change into one of many extra secure components of Tommy’s life as the primary season ends. No, that isn’t a praise to their strengths as a pair as a result of, let’s face it, they’ve been risky at greatest since reuniting whereas she was nonetheless married to a different man. Relatively, it’s an acknowledgment that all the pieces else in Tommy’s life has taken a flip for the extreme within the remaining episodes of the season.