“Taylor Sheridan’s Landman has a lot of potential, but it’s too unfocused and unrefined to truly stand out in an increasingly crowded TV landscape.” Billy Bob Thornton’s charismatic lead performance Its protagonist’s role as a professional fixer Deeply troubling treatment of its female characters A hero who’s never wrong Jon Hamm and Demi Moore are both underused Thin characterizations and even thinner episodic subplots In a 2022 interview, producer David Glasser described Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan as a “first-draft writer,” noting, “What he puts out is what we shoot. When…
