Curiously, not a superhero show. Or, if it is, worst superhero ever.
I'd not watched any of the Yellowstone stuff by Taylor Sheridan. By the time I heard it was watchable there were 23 seasons of it and a few spin-offs, and I couldn't be bothered to enter that particular multiverse.
But when I saw Billy Bob Thornton, John Hamm, Demi Moore and Robyn Lively would be on a show, I was curious. Then I saw it was about the energy industry and set in Texas, and my ears perked up. I have lived the vast majority of my life in Texas, and my father worked for companies that produced instrumentation and valves for oil rigs, derricks, etc.. Anyway - like a lot of folks who grew up around oil, I have a passing interest in the industry.
What's curious is that during my youth, Texas was considered pumped dry. There were oil fields, sure... but the fracking and all that came along later. By the time I was in high school in the early 90's, if you saw an oil jack going, it was always worthy of comment. and, yes, pump jacks could be anywhere and were.
Someone figured out the fields were *not* dry, and fracking eventually happened, especially out in West Texas. And when I travelled out that way for work, all of a sudden the hotels were full of guys off a hard shift, getting rest, uniformly polite but eyeing me with suspicion as I went by in my tie.
Oil wise, things are definitely cooking in Texas.
Landman is, basically, a soap opera that sure feels like a modern spin on the dramas we used to watch, like Dallas. There's a wide array of characters, oil is at the center of it, but only some are involved directly with the business. And because it's TV, it's the lives and loves of those working around oil (read: men) that drive the show, and the women who love them.
