Landman: Season Two Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		4.5
Audio		4.0
Extras		2.0
Overall		3.5

Landman: Season Two Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Martin Liebman September 19, 2026

Taylor Sheridan's golden pen has yet to run out of ink despite extensive usage. He became a household name and overnight sensation with Yellowstone and has branched out beyond the Montana frontier for several shows, none of them near so memorable as the one that made him but all of them infinitely watchable and in their own ways engagingly unique. But Landman may be the closest thing to Yellowstone that Sheridan has made, a show looking at the drama that unfolds around the Texas oil industry rather than the Montana ranch industry. Landman lacks the powerhouse drama, sprawling narrative excellence, and rich character roster of Yellowstone, but it's quite the experience nevertheless, thanks largely to Sheridan's sharp writing and lead Billy Bob Thornton's superb work. The show is drastically unpredictable even while following some basic narrative lines, but at the same time the story can fall into borderline nonsensical territory and can feel unevenly written here and there. Still, there's no missing the raw entertainment value and terrific photography that are trademark Sheridan characteristics.

Following the events of the show's first season, Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) finds himself climbing the ladder at M-Tex Oil, a company that is dealing with an unpredictable future, which means Tommy's facing an unpredictable future, both at work and at home. The season follows Tommy's relationships with the company's owner, Cami Miller (Demi Moore), as well as cartel boss Danny Morrell (Andy Garcia). He also navigate family life alongside his wife Angela (Ali Larter), son Cooper (Jacob Lofland), daughter Ainsley (Michelle Randolph), and, new for season two, father, T.L. (Sam Elliott). The season follows Tommy's maneuverings through a number of personal and professional landscapes that challenge him at home and at his workplace in a number of ways.

As with the first season, this second season only goes so far as Thornton takes it. While it's Sheridan's baby, it's Thornton's show. While it's Sheridan's writing that makes it, it's Thornton's performance that sells it. Thornton, one of the best actors of his generation, built an authentic Tommy in season one and builds on that foundation more fully in season two, really hitting the character's stride and embracing his personality that encompasses toughness, tiredness, humor, and heart. Thornton, as always, is capable of running with a good script and salvaging a mediocre one. He doesn't have to do the latter all that often, but when he does, he keeps the show not only afloat, but chugging along thanks to his dynamic, consistent, and all-in work. As with Kevin Costner in Yellowstone, Thornton is surrounded by an A-list cast that includes hall-of-fame caliber names like Demi Moore, Sam Elliot, and Andy Garcia, and it's the interplay between them all that may be the show's best asset, especially when it invariably veers towards what is becoming somewhat stale TV-style drama and manufactured intensity.

And that is usually where season two struggles. It can be tonally uneven, looking at hardcore oil industry drama one minute and soap opera inspired melodrama the next. It can be deadly serious and intense one moment and nonsensically humorous and off the rails the next. Sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't. It's not that the show can't balance its extremes, it's that the show can never quite transition with smoothness to maintain something of an even keel midline. The show certainly works best on the harder edge end, especially in the hot and sticky oil fields. Most of the show feeds off that central thread, but some of the dramatic interruptions and happenings feel a little too convenient and manufactured, intended otherwise push the drama and the characters to another place. It's not always organic in its transitions, and the show seems determined to get somewhere first and foremost and sometimes less concerned about getting there along a safe and believable route. Nevertheless, the show more often than not thrives on its forward momentum and unpredictability, and even when it gets there in a silly way, Thornton and company keep everything even and entertaining, even when the show would otherwise fizzle out under the weight of its occasional stretches of implausibility.

Landman: Season Two Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Landman's second season delivers a quality 1080p viewing experience. The picture is sharp and crisp, delivering excellent location details from rough and barren West Texas landscapes to the well appointed TCU exteriors. As always with Sheridan productions, the cinematography is gorgeously captured, and the sprawling exteriors and intimate interiors alike deliver exceptional and awe-inspiring beauty, which the Blu-ray captures with impressive definition. Likewise, skin and clothing textures are handsomely defined. Colors are nicely saturated and balanced. There are no balance issues, though various locales can push to certain extremes, especially the hot and sticky West Texas exteriors. But black levels are good, white balance is solid, and skin tones appear healthy and accurate. I didn't see any serious source or encode problems. While a UHD would have certainly brought out more detail excellence and color expression, there is no denying that this is a rock-solid image from Paramount.

Landman: Season Two Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

The included Dolby TrueHD 5.1 lossless soundtrack delivers a quality and full listening experience. The sonic highlights certainly come in the sweltering oil fields, where trouble can lead to some impressive sonic depth and excellent score support, both filling the stage with deep and seamless immersion and precise detailing. It is here where the 5.1 "limitations" come into play; no doubt the show could have sounded far more dynamic with more active channels, but even so what's here is well capable of delivering a full and satisfying core listening experience. Ambient elements are nicely integrated as well, using all the soundstage to both powerfully and subtly engage the listening audience into the various locales. Musical clarity is fine, delivering well balanced front side dominance and healthy surround integration. Dialogue is clear and intelligible throughout.

Landman: Season Two Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

This Blu-ray release of Landman contains two bonus features on disc three. No digital copy code is included, but Paramount has included a non embossed slipcover.

• Going Deeper: Inside Landman Season Two (1080p, 28:19): A catchall extra that features cast and crew talking up season two characters and story dynamics. Also included is a set tour with Billy Bob Thornton.
• Finding Character in Clothing with Costume Designer Janie Bryant (1080p, 8:29): As the title suggests, this piece explores the costumes of season two: simple as that.

Landman: Season Two Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Landman: Season Two thrives on the strength of its lead performances, centered around an A-list cast. Sheridan's work is not as crisp as it is in Yellowstone, but even when things veer out of control Thornton keeps Landman flying and watchable. This is a fast moving, energetic, and entertaining show that is far from perfect but perfectly cast and perfectly enjoyable. Paramount's second season Blu-ray release delivers high end video and audio presentations but is a little short on bonus content, but at least something is here. Fans will enjoy this release.