Well, if I were writing a series finale for Landman, Paramount Plus’s megahit, it probably would have looked something like what we saw last night.
After being fired from M-Tex, rather than scheme his way back into his job or get some cushy role at a larger company, Tommy instead decides to gamble on his son Cooper’s lucky wells. It ends up with him starting his own company CTT Oil and Cattle (don’t ask about the cattle), and it’s sort of an Avengers Assemble moment for Landman, or at least as close as you can get. Who’s on the team?
- Cooper Norris – The President
- Tommy Norris – The Vice President Who Is Really President
- Nathan – The Worrywart Lawyer
- Rebecca – The Shark Lawyer
- Dale – The Oil Hunter
- Ariana – Office Manager And Not Secretary
- TL Norris – Joystick Operator
- Cheyenne – Physical Therapist and Cuddle Buddy
- Boss – The Drilling Boss
- Two Other Guys – Working for Boss
So, that’s the team, except for two main characters on the show that are conspicuously missing. That’s no surprise, of course, given that Landman treats Angela and Ainsley Norris as nothing but comic relief. Ainsley is at college busy straddling the lines betwen woke and not-woke. Angela, in fact, is in a final, somewhat poignant scene, talking to Tommy about how he’s always winning and should appreciate what he has, and then… talks about walking naked to her bath. The show just can’t help it.
To me, this would seem like a great note to end the entire series on, the culmination of the journey of all these characters and the loyalty that Tommy has cultivated. A blank slate, starting it all again from scratch.
Of course, it’s not.
Landman season 3 was greenlit ages ago; the series is the most popular on Paramount Plus by a fairly wide margin. Taylor Sheridan, despite personally writing every episode, is able to get this series out every year, a rarity in the space, and it is exceedingly likely we will see season 3 release in November of 2026.
Since it’s not the finale, there’s a whole new set of challenges here when you have a very limited number of wells and have to gamble on a bunch more for this oil company to blossom into something actually big. Plus, there’s the issue of Tommy partnering with a known cartel money washer for this to happen in the first place. On top of that, since M-Tex had a hand in the funding here, we probably have not seen the last of Cami either, perhaps attempting to lay claim to it all.
Anyway, we have no idea how Landman will end, and it likely won’t end until Taylor Sheridan departs Paramount in 2029, after his deal with NBCUniversal begins. And who knows, maybe it could live past that. I find myself wondering if Tommy would survive a real finale, and I wouldn’t expect it to be quite as happy as last night was.
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