Pictures shared ahead of the Landman Season 2 finale are pretty generic, except for one.

The main characters look to be posing casually for the cameras, not amid action important to how Ep. 10 will end. Then there’s the picture in the police chief’s office — who is that guy?

Landman, Season 2 Episode 9 Recap

The penultimate episode of Landman Season 2 was pretty fluffy until the end. Ainsley has some roommate drama at TCU and TL gets pretty flirty with his physical therapist, Cheyenne.

This action was interesting, but not consequential until Cami Miller (Demi Moore) pulls Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton) aside at the rig launch party. She tells him that the president of her company cannot be adverse to the very thing that founded it. He presses for further explanation and she tells him he’s fired.

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Plenty of Landman viewers saw that coming as Tommy has been raining on Cami’s optimism all season long. Few predicted what came next.

Ariana is sexually assaulted in the alley behind the bar she works at and Cooper rescues her. Then he beats the brains out of her attacker, Johnny. His condition is unknown at the end but security cameras caught it all on camera. Are charges coming?

Landman Season 2 Finale Preview

The trailer for Ep. 10 indicates Cooper and/or Ariana are in big legal trouble. She’s told to get a lawyer so she calls Rebecca, who will surely have a fun time defending them against attorneys representing a rapist.

Tommy’s path forward is less clear. Now that he’s no longer working for M-Tex, what is compelling him to meet with Gallino?

Here are pictures shared by Paramount+ ahead of Episode 10, titled “Tragedy and Flies.” The seventh picture is the one that’s really worrying.

Who is that man with his back turned? He surely has something to do with Cooper’s troubles, but how serious will the charges be and will they stick?

That’s the pressing question ahead of the Season 2 finale, which will be broken down in full next week during another live episode of the Dutton Rules podcast.

Landman Season 2 Finale Pictures Show Trouble In Store for Cooper

Landman Season 2 finale promises trouble for Cooper and a very difficult decision for Tommy Norris. Here are nine pictures shared ahead of the Jan. 18 streaming date.

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TL and Tommy Talk

Sam Elliott as T.L. and Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy in Landman episode 10, season 2.

Dale is there too!

James Jordan as Dale and Sam Elliott as T.L. in Landman episode 10, season 2.

Getting King of the Hill Intro Vibes

Tommy and Ariana Talk

Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy and Paulina Chavez as Ariana in Landman episode 10, season 2.

Sheriff Walk Joeberg Returns

Mark Collie as Sheriff Walt Joeberg in Landman episode 10, season 2.

This Can’t Be Good …

Who Is This Guy?

This picture is the one that has us really concerned before the finale of Season 2 of Landman. Who is this guy and what does he want with Tommy?

Bella’s Back!

Andy Garcia as Gallino and Stefania Spampinato as Bella in Landman episode 10, season 2.

Will Angela Ever See This Jet Again?

Ali Larter as Angela in Landman episode 10, season 2.

One More Random Nate Photo

Colm Feore as Nathan in Landman episode 10, season 2.

11 ‘Landman’ Facts You Definitely Didn’t Know

This list of Landman facts goes much deeper than what inspired the show, who stars in it and how big the audience is. Here you’ll learn the truth about the most memorable scenes and lines of dialogue, including that line from Ainsley Norris. You know which one we mean.

Season 2 of Landman begins Nov. 16 on Paramount+. Here’s the best Landman trivia we could find as the Dutton Rules podcast team prepares for another great year.

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Jerry Jones was unscripted and unrehearsed

During S1, Ep. 9, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones talks to Jon Hamm’s Monty Miller about the importance of family. The three-and-a-half-minute scene is just Jones talking about his life and how hard he worked to get his kids involved in the family business.

It’s really powerful!

Talking to Variety, series co-creator Christian Wallace admits Jones’ scene was unscripted and was “one and done,” meaning he didn’t need to do it a second time.

“It was pretty heavy being in the room listening to that,” Billy Bob Thornton would add. “It made you feel like you weren’t in a scene … It made you feel like you were just sitting there listening to a guy tell his story.”

Tim McGraw’s daughter plays Ainsley’s neighbor

During Ep. 5 of Landman, Ainsley Norris meets her new next door neighbor, Shelby. That’s Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s daughter Audrey, and it’s not her only appearance.

During Ep. 7, the two teens attend a party on the patch. It goes comically wrong.

McGraw and Hill could have introduced their daughter to creator Taylor Sheridan. In 2021, they starred in the Yellowstone prequel 1883.

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Country singer Mark Collie plays the sheriff

Early ’90s country music hitmaker Mark Collie plays Sheriff Walt Joeberg on Landman. He’s friends with Tommy Norris and appears in a number of episodes.

“Even the Man in the Moon Is Cryin’” and “Born to Love You” are his biggest hit songs, but he’s scored a number of acting roles, including Frankie Gray for 12 episodes of the ABC/CMT show Nashville.

The ‘Springsteen’ girl is in this show

You’ll see it in the eyes. In 2012, Eric Church released his signature song, “Springsteen.” The music video opens with a teenage girl describing her perfect guy — it really sets the tone for a wonderfully nostalgic story.

That girl is actor Kelsey Pribilski Ray, and she has gone on to score a number of small roles for TV, film and commercials. During Ep. 10 of Landman, she plays Jasmine, one of the dancers at the strip club that Ainsley and Angela take the senior citizens to.

On Instagram, she had nothing but good things to say about the experience.

Taylor Sheridan’s wife inspired the senior citizen strip club visit

Ali Larter revealed that Taylor Sheridan’s wife Nicole was the model for Angela’s idea to entertain the senior citizens at the elderly community.

“She does that,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “She plays games and sets up a bar for them …. Nicole has really opened up this world of the way that we can see senior citizens, how we can treat them and have fun with them, and how little effort it takes to bring so much happiness to someone’s life.”

Larter didn’t say that Nicole Sheridan rents a bus to take the most ambitious of her group to an adult night club, but she didn’t say she didn’t, either.

Ali Larter was that girl in ‘Varsity Blues’

Ali Larter has a few very memorable roles. In 2009, she fought Beyonce in a movie called Obsessed.

In 1999, she tries to seduce James Van Der Beek’s character in Varsity Blues. Her whipped cream, uh, outfit is one of the more memorable moments from the film.

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Here’s how Billy Bob Thornton got the role of Tommy Norris

During Ep. 2 of Yellowstone prequel 1883, Billy Bob Thornton appears as Marshall Jim Courtright. It was just one episode, but during filming he found out that Taylor Sheridan was writing the role of Tommy Norris for him.

“He told me what it was about, who the character was, and I pretty much said yes before I ever saw a script,” Thornton told Variety. It took a few years to develop, but eventually the marshal would transform into the landman.

That really was Billy Bob Thornton in the bag during the S1 finale

During the Landman Season 1 finale, Tommy Norris is kidnapped and tortured by drug cartel henchman Jimenez. They put a sack on his head, drive a nail into his thigh and crack his wrist with a hammer.

It was really Thornton doing all of it. He didn’t use a stuntman.

“In those kinds of scenes, you just have to put yourself in that place, like that’s actually happening,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. “And that night, it felt that way. Plus, I was exhausted. By the time we did the outside scene, I could barely stand up. So, there’s no acting going on there. I would lean on the wall between every take.”

Jacob Lofland was in a famous Matthew McConaughey movie

Jacob Lofland played a teenager named Neckbone in the 2013 movie Mud. Matthew McConaughey plays the title character, and Neckbone is one of two boys who assists him. It was a huge role for the Arkansas native.

James Jordan is in EVERY Taylor Sheridan project

Actor James Jordan is Taylor Sheridan’s Waldo. Sometimes you have to squint, but he almost always appears in the writer and director’s projects.

In addition to Landman (he plays Dale Bradley), he’s had central roles in Lioness, 1883, Mayor and Yellowstone, plus the movie Wind River.

Does Michelle Randolph really talk like that to her father?

Without a doubt, the most memorable piece of dialogue from Season 1 of Landman came from Ainsley Norris, who told her father Tommy about her “rule” for safe sex with her boyfriend.

No need to repeat it here, is there? It’s on Instagram.

Talking to Taste of Country, Michelle Randolph says she’s nothing like Ainsley, which makes moments like this easier. It’s not her talking, it’s the spoiled 17-year-old.

“I’m an over-thinker. I’m very filtered,” she shares. “She brought out a side of my personality that had been tucked deeply away. And I think I’ve taken little pieces of her with me and I’m happy about it.”