Paramount+ has renewed Landman for a new season, and it seems nobody is surprised.
As the show has been a huge success from Day one. Set in West Texas, the show grabbed 15.8 million viewers on average during its first season, making it one of the biggest hits of 2024 to 2025. Those numbers came from Nielsen’s 35-day tracking across different platforms.
Season two is doing even better. When it premiered on November 16, it became the biggest season or series premiere Paramount+ has ever had. It pulled in 9.2 million views worldwide in just the first few days. That’s more than three times what the series debut got last year.
Right now, we’re only four episodes into season two, which comes out with new episodes every Sunday. But the people making the show and the actors have already been talking about how this could go on for a while.
Christian Wallace, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, said they have barely scratched the surface. “We barely skimmed the surface in season one and, after season two, I feel like we’re still just skimming the surface,” Wallace said. Both seasons move fast, too.
Season one happened over just 10 days, and season two is paced the same way.
Wallace loves the world they’ve built. “We got to know these characters in season one, and now we get to spend more time with them in season two. We get to raise the stakes,” he explained.
“They are so fun to be around. This world is so rich. West Texas, oil and gas, Fort Worth, the upstairs downstairs of this whole thing. It’s such fertile soil for storytelling.”
He also praised the cast for bringing so much to their characters. “Our cast has added so much depth to the characters. They know them so well now that they make it easy to tell an entertaining story.”
Billy Bob Thornton signed up for four to five years when he took the role. He told THR he wants to keep doing Landman “as long as I’m able” or until they run out of story. “I think Landman, as an entity, will know when it’s over,” he said. Other cast members like Sam Elliott, Ali Larter, and Michelle Randolph feel the same way.
Michelle Randolph put it pretty clearly. “By the end of season two, there’s so much story still left to tell; so much for these characters. I could see the show going for a long time. We wouldn’t run out of things.”
The show follows Tommy Norris, played by Thornton. He’s an oil fixer dealing with a lot of pressure. In season two, he’s running M-Tex Oil with Cami Miller, a widowed CEO played by Demi Moore. On top of work stress, his family life is also piling on the problems. The whole thing is based on a Texas Monthly podcast called Boomtown that Wallace hosted.
Season two brought in some new faces alongside the returning cast. Andy Garcia, Jacob Lofland, Paulina Chávez, Kayla Wallace, Mark Collie, James Jordan, and Colm Feore all joined this year.
The show comes from Paramount Television Studios, 101 Studios, and Sheridan’s Bosque Ranch Productions. There’s a long list of executive producers, including Sheridan, David C. Glasser, David Hutkin, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, Wallace, Thornton, Geyer Kosinski, Michael Friedman, and director Stephen Kay. Dan Friedkin and Jason Hoch from Imperative Entertainment are also executive producers, along with J.K. Nickell and Megan Creydt from Texas Monthly. Tommy Turtle is a co-executive producer.
With numbers like these and everyone involved wanting to keep going, Landman is going to be around for a while. The oil business in West Texas has plenty more stories to tell, and viewers can’t seem to get enough of it.
