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The second episode of Landman season 2 enters some of the series’ most emotional territory yet.
The Landman episode, titled "Sins of the Father", highlights the complicated dynamics between Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) and his father, T.L. (Sam Elliott). It also offers viewers a closer look at Tommy and his son Cooper's (Jacob Lofland) messy relationship as they attempt to work through their problems with each other.
Cooper is still heartbroken from his breakup with Ariana (Paulina Chavez), who couldn’t handle the risks that come with his work. Trying to clear his head, he joins Tommy on a trip to visit T.L. and begin planning his mom’s funeral. Throughout the episode, Cooper discovers the full weight of his dad's traumatizing past. From his father’s abuse to losing his mother due to her addiction, both Cooper and the viewers finally realize how much Tommy has suffered.
In an interview with TV Insider, Elliott discussed the emotions he experienced when he first read the script. The actor praised Taylor Sheridan for being able to nail all these themes of remorse and self-reflection.
I don’t think about going in. I don’t think about, ‘I’ve got to be emotional here. I’ve got to cry here. I’ve got to do this or that.’ It just comes out of working with great material that calls for whatever it calls for, and Taylor’s brilliant at doing that. He just writes for actors. I don’t know if it’s because he is an actor himself, or if he’s just a brilliant man that understands human nature, he just writes for us. … There’s this old adage, ‘If it ain’t on a page, it ain’t on the stage,’ and it’s on every page of Taylor’s material that I’ve ever looked at.
Things get even more emotional after Tommy apologizes to his son for being an absent father. The two make amends, and viewers finally get to see Cooper letting his grief out and crying. Thornton revealed how this scene really tugged at his heartstrings as it made him think about his children and his complicated relationship with his own father. He explained how he drew from his real-life experiences while acting out this scene, and it brought out so many real emotions in him.
I’ve got sons. I have a daughter. I had a difficult relationship with my dad. I mean, all those things are there. So I used life experience as an actor. Sam and I both are sort of from the just natural out-of-the-ground acting school. We’re not fancy guys. So if I don’t feel like crying, I don’t… There are scenes where maybe it’s supposed to be one thing, and I do another. Sometimes, I’ll bawl my eyes out in a scene that doesn’t say that on the face. In this case, they coincided, and I couldn’t help it, because when you have kids and you’ve you’ve had difficulties and love and joy and everything else you have in a family, when you’re doing scenes about that, you don’t think about it beforehand so much. It’s just that when you’re in the middle of it and you’re talking to someone — when Jacob was talking to me — you can’t help it. I mean, you go there. And Taylor writes very natural stuff, and he hired a bunch of natural actors, I mean, that whole cast… he knew what he was doing there.
This episode of Landman features some of the series’ most intimate and vulnerable moments. It reveals decades of pain that have haunted and shaped the characters. The raw performances from the actors and Sheridan’s talented writing make the show stand out from the rest in its genre. With more episodes ahead, the series proves far deeper than just another drama.
Landman season 2 releases new episodes every Sunday on Paramount+.
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