‘Landman’ Season 2 Teaser Reveals Sam Elliott Will Star As Tommy Norris’ Father

Buckle up.

The Landman season two preview is HERE. The hit Taylor Sheridan series has just released the first teaser trailer for the new season, and it reveals additional information about what is set to unfold in Midland, Texas, and also reveals the roles some new characters will play.

The cast, made up of talented actors and actresses like Billy Bob Thornton, Ali Larter, and Demi Moore, shined brightly in the inaugural run of the series, and filming for season two wrapped up not too long ago. The Season 2 premiere has a confirmed release date of Sunday, November 16.

Don’t you love that Taylor Sheridan keeps his shows on a tight, continuous release schedule? At least lately (there were certainly some Yellowstone delays). While some other shows wait years before their seasons, the creative mind behind Yellowstone takes pride in releasing one season per year. The second season of Landman is set to release almost exactly a year after the show’s first season (it aired on November 17, 2024).

As the excitement builds for season two, Billy Bob Thornton, who stars as Tommy Norris, a crisis executive and “fixer” for M-Tex Oil, shared that season 2 is expected to be a “slow burn” this upcoming season. While that is not out of the norm for a Taylor Sheridan plotline, given the tense final scenes of season one, it’s hard to imagine that season two will be that.

Here’s Thornton’s quote to Entertainment Weekly:

“Now that the audience knows all the characters, Taylor was able to really dive into the relationships more. Last season, we had to explain what this business was all about and who the people are.

This season, he was able to really focus in the first few episodes on the family dynamic and the business dynamic. But this one really ramps up as it goes on, and there’s more and more intensity.”

While I want to believe the seasoned actor, after watching the new season two trailer, it appears to be anything but a slow burn.

In the opening scenes of the trailer, Demi Moore’s character is about to speak to a room full of bankers and other oil executives, appearing to share that she’s running the show following the death of the M-Tex CEO, Monty. Tommy Norris is standing beside her, telling her that she needs to nail her speech, which she does from what is shown, laying down the law with the chilling line:

“The only difference between me and my husband is that I’m meaner.” 

Shortly after that opening scene, we see that Sam Elliott’s character is revealed, and he will star as Tommy Norris’ father. LET’S GO.

The rest of the trailer looks far from a slow burn, with a ticking time bomb-style editing. Their love, fights, glasses being thrown, a pressure cooker of disaster occurring in the oil field, and more.

The description of this trailer says it best, but I can’t wait to see what unfolds in this “modern tale of fortune seeking amongst roughnecks and billionaires in the world of oil.”

November 16 can’t get here soon enough.

You might as well catch up on the first season with this recap while you’re here:

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