'Landman' Review: Taylor Sheridan's Big Oil Drama Is an Even Bigger Misfire
On the surface, Sheridan's latest Paramount+ drama, Landman, seems like an ideal meeting of concept and creator. For one, Landman is based on Boomtown, a 2019 non-fiction podcast dissecting Texas's modern-day oil boom through interviews with the employees on the ground and the oil barons ruling their kingdoms with an iron fist.