LANDMAN: My review and thoughts.... By Julianna Rowe

 

My Take on LANDMAN: 

Landman's Billy Bob Thornton brings in authenticity. The viewer believes he has been around hard people and harder deals. The show captures the brutal economics and pressure of oil country life along with the money, the danger, masculinity, and last but not least, loyalty.

The good ole Taylor Sheridan raw dialogue, moral gray zones, and great characters who survive by being tough, not polite.

Some viewers feel it goes too far.  I have read many comments, some very direct and harsh.  I always wonder why they watch the show if they detest it so.  The heightened aggression.  Conversations of continual confrontation.  Men always on the edge. The viewers who criticize aren't all wrong.  But they fail to realize it's not a documentary...its a stylized reality. Masculinity pushed to the edge.  Women are written to appear as over-emotional and unintelligent or overly tough. Basically not as equals.

 The show isnt written the way the view lives their everyday life.  It is written to show power under pressure. How money, land, ego, collide and continue to survive.  That world is where softness is punished.  

I myself enjoy the show as I have Yellowstone, 1883, and Mayor of Kingstown.  That being said, I enjoy Landman. 

I notice the exaggeration, but I don't reject the story. Try watching it as how its told, not all in the over drama.  The cut-throat oil fields remind me of a courtroom!  Its all in  how you play the game and its not always pretty or fair.  

Personally I cant figure out how Taylor Sheridan can write so many different shows at the same time and keep his mind on cue.  Either his IQ is abnormally high or he has help.  Just my take on one small part of it all.

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