There’s a viral clip from the series premiere of the Taylor Sheridan creation Landman that gets dragged up whenever a habitué wants to explain to the uninitiated how bonkers this show can be. In it, Ainsley, the teenage daughter character played by Michelle Randolph, brightly explains to her dad, played by Billy Bob Thornton, that she and her boyfriend are , indeed, having sex—but she won’t get pregnant, because their rule is “As long as he never comes in me, he can come anywhere on me.” ( She said that to her dad? Yes, she did.)

Despite—or because of—this kind of nonhuman dialogue, the show was an unexpected hit for Paramount+ in late 2024. Landman ’s main character is Tommy Norris, a lifelong “fixer” for oil companies who’s played with weary omnicompetence by Thornton. Wat

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