Landman Season 2 Premiere Review: Garbage Filler Episode

I just got done watching my Buffalo Bills pounce the Tampa Bay Bucs with Josh Allen dropping six touchdowns, then I watched the Broncos stomp Mahomes and the Chiefs.

Great day.

So why not cap it off with the Season 2 premiere of Landman on Paramount+? Season 1 was solid and quickly became one of my must-watch shows. I was genuinely excited for the return.

But wow… what a letdown. The Season 2 premiere is a whole lot of nothing. It plays like a filler episode. A season opener should grab you—not push you away.

This one pushes hard.

The big reveal? Jon Hamm’s Monty Miller is dead, and his wife, played by Demi Moore, is taking over the billion-dollar oil empire. She gives a fiery speech to show she’s a boss. Honestly? I couldn’t have cared less.

Then we get the son continuing his full-on simp arc. He strikes it rich—of course—and it’s all to impress the girl he just met and immediately started hooking up with. Not his kid, by the way.

The daughter isn’t any better. She applies to a new college strictly so she can bang the jocks, gets accepted, and proves she’s as shallow as ever.

Then comes the dinner scene—an absolute trainwreck—where everything spirals into period jokes and emotional drama about mom being “too hormonal” to make business decisions.

Sam Elliott gets dumped in a depressing nursing home scene, and the episode caps off with Billy Bob Thornton learning his mother has died.

The Verdict

This premiere feels like a complete waste of an episode. It doesn’t set anything up, doesn’t build momentum, doesn’t hook you—it actually turns you off. If the next couple of episodes look like this, I’m out. Maybe it’s not the worst thing that Taylor Sheridan is stepping away.

2/10. Skip it.