Spoilers beneath for anybody who hasn’t but streamed the penultimate episode of Landman‘s first season with a Paramount+ subscription, so be warned!
With the installment titled “WolfCamp,” Taylor Sheridan’s oilfield drama Landman appeared to ship Season 1’s newest narrative-shaking loss of life, and I will be very shocked if Jon Hamm’s Monty Miller returns within the finale with a clear invoice of well being after being specified by a hospital mattress following his third coronary heart assault. And I am actually hoping that Demi Moore’s Cami steps up with extra screen-time in his absence, however that is not what we’re right here to speak about so early within the 2025 TV schedule.
As an alternative, we’re specializing in the episode’s huge and genuinely shocking cameo, and the beforehand anticipated new addition to the drama that someway hasn’t been launched but, regardless of just one episode remaining. So let’s “cowboy” up and dive in, because it have been.
Jerry Jones Is Apparently Pals With Monty And Tommy
After making the lengthy drive to Fort Price to go to Monty within the hospital, the place spouse Cami waits dutiful by her lonesome, Tommy walked into the oil tycoon’s room to seek out none apart from Dallas Cowboys proprietor, president and basic supervisor Jerry Jones, who is seemingly pleasant with each of the opposite males. Which was already hinted at when Cami referred to him as simply “Jerry.” Small world for such an enormous state.
The billionaire mogul clearly wasn’t hanging out for shits and giggles, and Jones was solely on display screen lengthy sufficient to inform an inspirational (if barely falsified) anecdote about how a lot of his successes have been sparked by the love of his household. As he put it:
My daughter, after I was in my 30s, went to highschool at Stanford. I could not stand it. She was so removed from Arkansas. So I would consider causes to make journeys on the market, attempt to give you a little bit enterprise or one thing. I would go on the market along with her. We had an previous workplace in Palo Alto. Jane goes to class along with her. I mentioned, ‘You realize I must get some issues going out right here if I am gonna spend this sort of time.’ So I went over to Brentwood, about 20-30 miles from San Francisco, and I purchased about 25 tons like I used to be gonna construct 25 homes. Besides I drilled 4 gasoline wells, and people 4 gasoline wells in 18 months paid me sufficient cash for me to purchase the Dallas Cowboys. Listening to my children truly led to me getting concerned into the fervour of my life. And all alongside, all I used to be attempting to do was hang around with my daughter. Lot of issues occur that you did not have deliberate or do not have the technique for.
Yeah, a few of that’s stretched out from the real-world occasions that function Jerry Jones’ origin story, but it surely was understandably streamlined in a means that made essentially the most sense to be provided up as inspirational to Monty. The Cowboys head honcho basically expressed the purpose that household is extra vital than a job or cash, but when there is a solution to make the job and cash work for the household, that is the happiest medium.
Jones continued with a extra direct line of cautionary wording for Monty, who’s presumably too far gone to place any of that recommendation to work for himself. He continued:
I simply know it is not gonna be this time, however you are gonna be sitting there a while sooner or later, laying right here a while sooner or later, and this room’s gonna be filled with your online business associates and the individuals you have labored with all of your life, and greater than probably, your kids and your loved ones’s gonna be there as a result of they’re your kids and your loved ones. However you would have ’em there as a result of they’re the individuals you spent your life with, you labored with, you fell down with, you bought up with. Not simply Thanksgiving and Christmas. That is who you need to be with. So when that point comes like this, it is a celebration of your life, and you are not wishing you’d spent a little bit extra time seeing a number of extra suns come up. That is the trick.
Weirdly sufficient, with none additional dialog available, Jerry Jones up and exited the room after his story. (I wish to assume that Texas hospitals rent the NFL proprietor to share his story with doomed sufferers, regardless of a scarcity of similarities.) It appeared to have a minor impact on Monty’s mind, as one of many first issues he does is ask if his daughters are within the ready room, which they aren’t. (Why they’d be exterior with Cami as a substitute of within the room like Jones and Tommy is past me.)
However The place In The World Is Andy Garcia’s Thriller Character?
One of many larger unaddressed mysteries in Landman‘s first season is what brought about the sibling rivalry rift between Ainsley and Cooper, which is seemingly a mirrored image of the place Taylor Sheridan took Beth and Jamie’s relationship in Yellowstone. Nevertheless it does not appear like that is getting answered at any level within the remaining ep. Nonetheless, I feel we 100% must get some readability on what’s taking place with Andy Garcia’s character, since we now have but to see that specific introduction.
We’d not be so anxious if Garcia’s casting hadn’t been made public all the way in which again in Might 2024. On the time, he was reported to have been solid as “Galino, a particularly succesful, highly effective and sensible man,” making it sound like he’d be a serious participant within the drama. And but there’s been no signal of him throughout the first 9 episodes.
At this level, two theories could be thought-about right here. One: Galino is the at the moment unseen head of the cartel that Tommy is attempting to keep away from coping with, and the “bogey” deaths that occurred throughout the army’s testing will carry him out of the shadows. Or two: Galino’s arrival is linked to Monty’s loss of life, with Tommy and Rebecca’s respective promotions being thrown into query. I would personally moderately see him as a cartel boss than one other stressed-out billionaire, simply as long as one in every of them occurs, and this is not a case the place Garcia dropped out of the challenge with out anybody figuring out.
Will we get to see Jerry Jones showing in any upcoming Yellowstone exhibits, assuming his relationship with Taylor Sheridan extends past their Landman connection? Will Andy Garcia lastly present up within the finale? The one wait to seek out out is to attend patiently, although hollering questions on the TV additionally helps.