‘Landman’ Finale: Billy Bob Thornton on That Jerry Jones Cameo and Why Tommy’s New Reality After That Violent Ending Goes ‘Against His Nature’

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Hunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “The Crumbs of Hope,” the Season 1 finale of “Landman,” now streaming on Paramount+ If the beginning and end of Season 1 of Paramount+’s “Landman” is any indication, co-creator and writer Taylor Sheridan may have it out for star Billy Bob Thornton. “I think Taylor is trying to kill me,” Thornton tells Variety. “He had me beat up at the beginning and beat up at the end.

At least he let me throw a few punches myself there in the middle.” He’s joking, of course. There is no “Landman” without Tommy Norris, Thornton’s no-nonsense land rights agent and operations manager for the M-Tex oil company.

But that doesn’t mean Sheridan, who wrote all 10 episodes of Season 1, didn’t put his hero through the wringer. In the finale, Norris is informed that his boss and close friend Monty (Jon Hamm) is not likely to recover from his massive heart attack in last week’s episode, and among his final wishes is for Tommy to be promoted to president of M-Tex and be the executor of his estate, the second of which he immediately vows to fulfill alongside Monty’s wife, Cami (Demi Moore).

The monumental shift in Tommy’s world is sidelined, however, when he is kidnapped minutes later by Jimenez (Alex Meraz), the local drug cartel leader who has been threatening M-Tex’s drilling sites all season.