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It’s not Christmastime for Tommy and the gang quite yet, but this family-heavy episode has all the hallmarks of a holiday classic : a long drive back home, a warm reconciliation with relatives, and heavy drinking. You can just about hear the jingle bells. (Our regular reminder: Landman is based on the Texas Monthly and Imperative Entertainment podcast Boomtown , and TM is an executive producer).

It’s night in the Permian Basin , and we open on a man inside a pickup truck near an M-Tex well. We can’t tell who he is, or whether he’s asleep, passed out, or worse—but it doesn’t matter, because a distracted eighteen-wheeler driver plows through the truck, assuredly killing the man and causing a new mess for Tommy and the crew to dea

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