‘Landman’ Left Us With One BIG Burning Question [DUTTON RULES]

Tommy Norris’ father TL moves in to begin Episode 5 of Landman, and he’s given fair warning. Well, he’s given as fair a warning as is possible.

The elder Norris (played by Sam Elliott) seems right at home — if a little bored — throughout his first day at the family home.

That changes abruptly when the cackling crows (their words, not mine) come home. I think these bright afternoons are about to get very dark and Ainsley Norris will be in the middle of it.

Season 2 of Landman has avoided real tragedy to this point. That has to change, right?

This week, the Dutton Rules podcast team breaks down TL’s homecoming, Cami’s money problems, Cooper and Ariana’s burning love story and more. This was a setup episode in every kind of way.

Landman’s Pirate Dinner Scene

I’ll get to explaining a few of the less enjoyable conversations in a moment, because the inconsequential pirate dinner scene that closed Episode 5 is what we’ll all remember.

Everybody’s there: Tommy, Ainsley, Nate, Dale, TL — heck, even next-door neighbor Shelby (played by Tim McGraw’s daughter Audrey) and buttoned-up lawyer Rebecca are in full dress.

Angela’s dinner parties were the breakout scenes from Season 1, but this year, we’ve only gotten a hormonal disaster of a dinner to close Ep. 1. That changed on Sunday.

To celebrate TL moving in, she asks for his favorite foods. TL mentions seafood, and a few hours later the house is decorated like a Dollywood attraction.

How in the heck did she get all of that done so fast? That’s the burning question fans want answered.

Somehow, she even built a plank for Tommy to walk across on his way to the front door, and then she fashioned fitting outfits for everyone around cooking a feast fit for Poseidon.

A scene between Tommy, Nate, Rebecca, accountant Alan and Cami Miller (Demi Moore) moved so quick it was hard to understand. Alan is trying to explain where the $400 million payout from the disaster insurance company went. I watched several times, and think I can boil it down.

Nobody addresses the elephant in the room, however: How did Monty plan to pay for the offshore well he promised the insurance company he’d build? It very much looks like he’s guilty of insurance fraud at this point.

Wait, Cooper and Ariana are Getting Married?!

As you watch Season 2 of Landman, keep this in mind. Season 1 happened on a very short timeline. It was maybe two weeks between Tommy’s first kidnapping and his second.

Season 2 begins (per Cami Miller) about seven weeks after Monty Miller’s death, and everything up to this point has taken place in about seven Landman days. This means that Cooper and Ariana went from not knowing one another at all to him driving seven hours to ask for her father’s permission to marry her in about two months.

During behind the scenes clips shared by Landman on YouTube, actors Jacob Lofland and Paulina Chavez joke about this. Fans are asked to buy their romance knowing full-well that she should be mourning the death of Elvio, her late husband.

I love Cooper and Ariana, but find myself rooting for them to fail, if only because it’d be the reality check the show needs from time to time.

Other topics explained during this week’s podcast include Cooper’s money problems, whose side Gallion/Dan Morrel is on and the raunchy birthday party at the assisted living home.

If you’ve ever wondered if Ali Larter is anything like her character Angela Norris, you’ll enjoy this look at her career. It’s truly been a wild ride for her.

‘Landman’: Who Is Ali Larter, AKA Angela Norris

Ali Larter says she wanted the role of Angela Norris on Landman because the character is so colorful. She expresses all her emotions with volume but has a big heart beneath it all.

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Ali Larter as Angela Norris In ‘Landman’

Ali Larter plays Angela Norris in the Paramount+ show Landman.

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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.”

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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.