Paramount has shared a short video tease for Landman Season 2 that includes the official return date.

Quite a bit has changed in the months since Season 1 wrapped. New cast, key plot points and the lawsuit that some felt was holding up production … it’s all included here.

When Does Landman Season 2 Begin?

Look for Season 2 of Landman to start on Nov. 16 on Paramount+. That’s almost exactly one year after the debut of the series in 2024. This news clarifies earlier reports that the show would begin in November.

The show will once again release new episodes on Sundays. If Season 2 is also 10 episodes, the Landman finale would air on Jan. 18, 2026.

Here is the 15-second teaser released earlier this week. It shows Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) under some amount of stress as disaster looms on the oil patch. As fans may recall, his job is hardly his greatest worry this year.

How Did Season 1 of Landman End?

During the Landman Season 1 finale, Tommy gets kidnapped by drug cartel henchman Jimenez and he’s tortured as a sort of payback for the unpleasant interactions that marked their relationship for nine episodes prior. Just as it seems Tommy will get killed, cartel leader Gallino (played by Andy Garcia) guns down Jimenez and his men and makes an uncomfortable peace with Tommy.

Meanwhile, Tommy’s boss Monty (John Hamm) is hospitalized with a serious heart problem, but doctors think he can survive a few days or weeks without needing a transplant. He lasts less than 24 hours, and after his death, Tommy is named permanent president of M-Tek.

One of his jobs as executor of Monty’s last wishes is to sell the company. It’s a role that hangs over his head as the credits begin.

The serious drama on the oil patch is lightened by the presence of Tommy’s wife Angela (Ali Larter) and daughter Ainsley (Michelle Randolph). These relationships solidify throughout the season, and by the finale they’re existing as a strange sort of Texas family unit.

Angela’s separation from her previous husband is clean, and Ainsley is now in a relationship with Ryder, a boy her age.

Tommy’s son Cooper (Jacob Lofland) has quit his job at M-Tek and is now set to go out on his own. His plan is to group several dozen small parcels of land together to sell to a large investor, and it looks to be going well in practice and on paper.

Both he and his new love interest Ariana (actor Paulina Chavez) are on wobbly legs, however.

She’s still grieving the explosion death of her husband — a moment Cooper was there to witness. It’s a relationship that’s been at the center of all the drama in the show, including in-fighting between M-Tek employees and lawsuits filed against the oil company.

Landman Season 2 Cast:

It’s an understatement to say Landman upgraded its cast for Season 2. For starters, Garcia will return.

Sam Elliott is also going to join the series as a regular. His character’s place and purpose has not yet been revealed. He worked with Taylor Sheridan previously in 1883, the first Yellowstone prequel.

Here are more new actors added to Season 2:

Stefania Spampinato: She’s best known as. Dr. Carina DeLuca-Bishop on Grey’s Anatomy. On Landman, she’ll play the wife of Garcia’s Gallino.

Guy Burnet: You may recognize Burnet from Fubar or Oppenheimer. On Landman he’ll play Charlie Newsom, an oil engineer.

Miriam Silverman: Silverman is a Tony Award-winning theater actor who also stars in an Apple+ show called Your Friends & Neighbors. She’s going to play Greta Stidham, an intimidating university admissions counselor. On Landman, Ainsley is close to college, so this character is likely to impact her life.

Landman Season 1 Ratings

The first episode of Landman reached 14.6 million viewers, according to Paramount+. The Hollywood Reporter shares that the first season totaled 35 million streaming viewers, making it the most-watched original series on the platform.

Landman Lawsuit

In June, the estate of late radio newsman Paul Harvey sued Paramount over the use of a 2008 radio segment called “Gas Crisis” at the beginning of the Ep. 10 episode. They claimed the show used the clip without permission and edited Harvey to make it sound like he was more supportive of the oil business.

The moment added color to the episode, but was not a central tenant of the plot. A few people online worried this might affect the show’s second season premiere, but there’s been no evidence that this is the case.

During a Q2 2025 earnings call, Paramount did suggest Landman would be pushed to December, but news of the Nov. 16 premiere walks that back.

11 ‘Landman’ Facts You Definitely Didn’t Know

This list of Landman facts goes much deeper than what inspired the show, who stars in it and how big the audience is. Here you’ll learn the truth about the most memorable scenes and lines of dialogue, including that line from Ainsley Norris. You know which one we mean.

Season 2 of Landman begins Nov. 16 on Paramount+. Here’s the best Landman trivia we could find as the Dutton Rules podcast team prepares for another great year.

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Jerry Jones was unscripted and unrehearsed

During S1, Ep. 9, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones talks to Jon Hamm’s Monty Miller about the importance of family. The three-and-a-half-minute scene is just Jones talking about his life and how hard he worked to get his kids involved in the family business.

It’s really powerful!

Talking to Variety, series co-creator Christian Wallace admits Jones’ scene was unscripted and was “one and done,” meaning he didn’t need to do it a second time.

“It was pretty heavy being in the room listening to that,” Billy Bob Thornton would add. “It made you feel like you weren’t in a scene … It made you feel like you were just sitting there listening to a guy tell his story.”

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Tim McGraw’s daughter plays Ainsley’s neighbor

During Ep. 5 of Landman, Ainsley Norris meets her new next door neighbor, Shelby. That’s Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s daughter Audrey, and it’s not her only appearance.

During Ep. 7, the two teens attend a party on the patch. It goes comically wrong.

McGraw and Hill could have introduced their daughter to creator Taylor Sheridan. In 2021, they starred in the Yellowstone prequel 1883.

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Country singer Mark Collie plays the sheriff

Early ’90s country music hitmaker Mark Collie plays Sheriff Walt Joeberg on Landman. He’s friends with Tommy Norris and appears in a number of episodes.

“Even the Man in the Moon Is Cryin’” and “Born to Love You” are his biggest hit songs, but he’s scored a number of acting roles, including Frankie Gray for 12 episodes of the ABC/CMT show Nashville.

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The ‘Springsteen’ girl is in this show

You’ll see it in the eyes. In 2012, Eric Church released his signature song, “Springsteen.” The music video opens with a teenage girl describing her perfect guy — it really sets the tone for a wonderfully nostalgic story.

That girl is actor Kelsey Pribilski Ray, and she has gone on to score a number of small roles for TV, film and commercials. During Ep. 10 of Landman, she plays Jasmine, one of the dancers at the strip club that Ainsley and Angela take the senior citizens to.

On Instagram, she had nothing but good things to say about the experience.

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Taylor Sheridan’s wife inspired the senior citizen strip club visit

Ali Larter revealed that Taylor Sheridan’s wife Nicole was the model for Angela’s idea to entertain the senior citizens at the elderly community.

“She does that,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “She plays games and sets up a bar for them …. Nicole has really opened up this world of the way that we can see senior citizens, how we can treat them and have fun with them, and how little effort it takes to bring so much happiness to someone’s life.”

Larter didn’t say that Nicole Sheridan rents a bus to take the most ambitious of her group to an adult night club, but she didn’t say she didn’t, either.

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Ali Larter was that girl in ‘Varsity Blues’

Ali Larter has a few very memorable roles. In 2009, she fought Beyonce in a movie called Obsessed.

In 1999, she tries to seduce James Van Der Beek’s character in Varsity Blues. Her whipped cream, uh, outfit is one of the more memorable moments from the film.

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Here’s how Billy Bob Thornton got the role of Tommy Norris

During Ep. 2 of Yellowstone prequel 1883, Billy Bob Thornton appears as Marshall Jim Courtright. It was just one episode, but during filming he found out that Taylor Sheridan was writing the role of Tommy Norris for him.

“He told me what it was about, who the character was, and I pretty much said yes before I ever saw a script,” Thornton told Variety. It took a few years to develop, but eventually the marshal would transform into the landman.

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That really was Billy Bob Thornton in the bag during the S1 finale

During the Landman Season 1 finale, Tommy Norris is kidnapped and tortured by drug cartel henchman Jimenez. They put a sack on his head, drive a nail into his thigh and crack his wrist with a hammer.

It was really Thornton doing all of it. He didn’t use a stuntman.

“In those kinds of scenes, you just have to put yourself in that place, like that’s actually happening,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. “And that night, it felt that way. Plus, I was exhausted. By the time we did the outside scene, I could barely stand up. So, there’s no acting going on there. I would lean on the wall between every take.”

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Jacob Lofland was in a famous Matthew McConaughey movie

Jacob Lofland played a teenager named Neckbone in the 2013 movie Mud. Matthew McConaughey plays the title character, and Neckbone is one of two boys who assists him. It was a huge role for the Arkansas native.

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James Jordan is in EVERY Taylor Sheridan project

Actor James Jordan is Taylor Sheridan’s Waldo. Sometimes you have to squint, but he almost always appears in the writer and director’s projects.

In addition to Landman (he plays Dale Bradley), he’s had central roles in Lioness, 1883, Mayor and Yellowstone, plus the movie Wind River.

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Does Michelle Randolph really talk like that to her father?

Without a doubt, the most memorable piece of dialogue from Season 1 of Landman came from Ainsley Norris, who told her father Tommy about her “rule” for safe sex with her boyfriend.

No need to repeat it here, is there? It’s on Instagram.

Talking to Taste of Country, Michelle Randolph says she’s nothing like Ainsley, which makes moments like this easier. It’s not her talking, it’s the spoiled 17-year-old.

“I’m an over-thinker. I’m very filtered,” she shares. “She brought out a side of my personality that had been tucked deeply away. And I think I’ve taken little pieces of her with me and I’m happy about it.”

‘Landman’: Who Is Jacob Lofland, AKA Cooper Norris? [Pictures]

Jacob Lofland plays Cooper Norris on Landman, now streaming on Paramount+.

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Jacob Lofland as Cooper Norris In ‘Landman’

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‘Landman’: Who Is Ali Larter, AKA Angela Norris

Ali Larter says she wanted the role of Angela Norris on Landman because the character is so colorful. She expresses all her emotions with volume but has a big heart beneath it all.

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Ali Larter as Angela Norris In ‘Landman’

Ali Larter plays Angela Norris in the Paramount+ show Landman.

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