Landman: A Realistic Take on the Taylor Sheridan Show

ight there,” he said. “An oil field broker in raw form is basically just a harbinger for the oil company. You’re driving around making friends with people and telling everyone, ‘Hey, we’re gonna take your land and we’re gonna drill it.’”Norris does a lot of that in “Landman,” too. And when the oil company wants to buy up a bunch of land around a small Wyoming town to drill, there are a lot of very small, very interesting conversations that take place between landmen and the owners of that land. Norris and those landowners negotiate fiercely. One elderly gentleman won’t sell his land of many decades under any circumstances, except at an incredibly high premium. Television cameras capture every word of that conversation, making it pretty clear that some of these land buys are going to be tough to do. Tessaro, who has been in the oil field for quite some time, says that part of “Landman” is real, too. “Every time we go to buy something, anything, it’s a pitched battle,” he said. “Every time a new project comes about, the right of way or something gets put in the way.”And it can all come to a screeching halt, he said, just because one farmer nearby won’t sell. “They can stop the whole circus,” he said. “You gotta respect them because this is probably the only thing that they were ever gonna own, and they’re probably not gonna farm it. But it’s their decision.”This is just one of the 10 episodes of “Landman’s” first season, with more to come in its second. The series is available for streaming on Paramount+.