Landman
Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, Landman is a modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs. The series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so big, it's reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics.
- Metascore62
- 2024-2026
- 3 seasons
- Paramount+
- Suspense, Drama, Action & Adventure
- TV-MA
Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, Landman is a modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs. The series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so big, it's reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics.
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2024 - 2025
Episode 1
Landman
Sun, Nov 17, 2024 56 mins
Tommy Norris navigates a landscape defined by industrial extraction and human volatility. He negotiates with cartels in the dirt before pivoting to boardroom warfare. His son, Cooper, endures the physical hazing of the oil patch, learning the brutal hierarchy of the rigs. Personal lives collide with professional disasters when a missing drug plane resurfaces as a fiery wreckage on company land. Every conversation is a transaction, every accident is a liability, and the pressure of the Permian Basin threatens to swallow the Norris family whole.
Episode 2
Dreamers and Losers
Sun, Nov 17, 2024 55 mins
The Midland oil patch fractures after a devastating equipment failure leaves workers dead and a legacy in ruins. Tommy Norris navigates the wreckage, managing the cold math of corporate liability while his own son recovers from the blast. Tensions spike at home as his daughter, Ainsley, disrupts the fragile order of his inner circle. Between hospital bedside reckonings and shadowed roadside meetings with legal sharks, Tommy fights to contain a fire that threatens to consume his family and his professional standing.
Episode 3
Hell Has a Front Yard
Sun, Nov 24, 2024 55 mins
Stakes escalate in the Permian Basin as Tommy Norris juggles a looming corporate liability investigation and the arrival of his volatile ex-wife. The theft of a multi-million dollar asset places a target on Tommy while he navigates the predatory landscape of modern energy politics. Meanwhile, his son Cooper faces a violent initiation into the oil patch, transitioning from a campus athlete to a man operating in the shadow of grief and manual labor. Survival in this dirt-stained world requires equal parts physical grit and calculated deception.
Episode 4
The Sting of Second Chances
Sun, Dec 1, 2024 44 mins
Crude oil dictates the pulse of West Texas while legal vultures circle a stolen aircraft. Tommy Norris maneuvers through a deposition that threatens to turn him into a sacrificial lamb for corporate negligence. Between high-stakes settlement meetings, the ghosts of a failed marriage resurface at a local watering hole. Pressure mounts on the drilling floor as a workplace injury forces a young hand into a dangerous promotion. Personal loyalties and professional survival collide under the relentless glare of the Permian Basin sun.
Episode 5
Where Is Home
Sun, Dec 8, 2024 65 mins
Tommy Norris navigates a landscape where the dirt is as volatile as the people walking on it. Pressure mounts at the patch as a cartel confrontation threatens to ignite an already simmering situation. At the oil house, Angela attempts to manufacture a domestic sanctuary through sheer force of will and a credit card, dragging a fractured family toward a forced dinner. While Cooper seeks a quiet grace in helping a widow, the world reminds him that kindness in the basin is often met with blood.
Episode 6
Beware the Second Beating
Sun, Dec 15, 2024 43 mins
Out in the Permian Basin, loyalty is currency and Tommy Norris knows exactly who's overdrawn. When Cooper lands in a hospital bed with a collapsed lung and a skull full of swelling, the machinery of consequence starts turning. Angela, blindsided at a stranger's door with her signature still wet, learns that contracts in this world have teeth. The Norris family converges under fluorescent hospital light while a young mother with nothing to sign refuses to leave. Everyone is calculating the cost of staying close to someone who works the oil patch.
Episode 7
All Roads Lead to a Hole
Sun, Dec 22, 2024 47 mins
High plains tension tightens as Tommy manages a volatile expansion into cartel territory while his son seeks refuge in a home marked by grief. Monty Miller negotiates predatory terms with desperate financiers to fuel the machine. Meanwhile, Angela and Ainsley navigate the social strata of West Texas through a nursing home visit and late night boundary testing. Blood and oil mix as the Norris family realizes that every strategic move creates a new target, and the shadows of the basin are never truly empty.
Episode 8
Clumsy, This Life
Sun, Dec 29, 2024 55 mins
In West Texas, grief and money collide after a deadly pumpjack blast. Cooper faces pressure from corporate lawyers who want silence, while Ariana sits inside a loss that money cannot solve. A million dollar settlement hangs in the air, heavy with guilt and calculation. Tommy Norris moves between boardroom deals, military arrangements, and fragile family ties. Everyone claims to be doing the right thing. The truth, like crude beneath the dirt, refuses to stay buried.
Episode 9
WolfCamp
Sun, Jan 5, 2025 48 mins
Tommy Norris operates at the intersection of oil money, cartel politics, and domestic obligation, managing crises that exist at wildly different scales but carry identical urgency. Monty's health reshapes the corporate ladder overnight, installing tension between Tommy and Rebecca before their first scene together. Cooper, running a parallel hustle on almost no resources, finds a genuine angle into Wolfcamp Shale. Angela navigates the gap between what she wants acknowledged and what Tommy can give. Everyone in this world is negotiating, all the time, for something they will never quite name.
Episode 10
The Crumbs of Hope
Sun, Jan 12, 2025 80 mins
A Texas oil empire teeters on a dying man's heartbeat. Tommy Norris steps into the president's chair not because he wants it but because nobody else can hold the weight. Monty clings to life in a hospital room while the business of oil waits for no one's grief. A cartel enforcer with a hammer decides to send a message through Tommy's body. Somewhere between the boardroom and a strip club basement, Tommy has to figure out what coexistence costs and who's actually running what in the Permian Basin.
