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If you haven't watched it, "The Landman" is shit pure shit FYI
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Date: April 24th, 2026 11:57 PM Author: amber stimulating private investor casino (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49841225) |
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Date: April 25th, 2026 8:34 PM Author: contagious hissy fit I can see why you would think so. Have you ever considered the morality of you being wrong about the tranny shit? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843037) |
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Date: April 25th, 2026 9:19 PM Author: amber stimulating private investor casino But I'm not wrong, I'm right (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843128) |
Date: April 25th, 2026 12:02 AM Author: french hunting ground like with most shows, if you took out the scenes with women it would be okay. let's get the old people laid, lololol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49841227) |
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Date: April 25th, 2026 12:04 AM Author: amber stimulating private investor casino Yeah the daughter and ex-wife are completely retarded characters. And all of the dialogue is lame and awkward as fuck. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49841230) |
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Date: April 25th, 2026 1:16 AM Author: diverse community account library you voted for this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49841279) |
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Date: April 25th, 2026 12:04 AM Author: trip national security agency sounds awful (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49841229) |
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Date: April 25th, 2026 12:10 AM Author: crystalline corn cake It’s a complete and total indictment of everything American and literally every person on the show deserves a brutal death. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49841235) |
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Date: April 25th, 2026 12:13 AM Author: amber stimulating private investor casino (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49841238) |
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Date: April 25th, 2026 12:39 AM Author: fiercely-loyal circlehead common failure mode for modern TV is that it has No Likable Characters (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49841256) |
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Date: April 25th, 2026 12:42 AM Author: crystalline corn cake None of them are anything but an id. But we live in idiocracy so an id is all there is. Even when they go to a funeral any introspection is 5 seconds deep and then it goes back to “gotta get my money” and “gotta wet that dick.” A nation of animals. Nothing redeeming about any of it. The Iranians are right. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49841262) |
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Date: April 25th, 2026 1:01 AM Author: lilac office That’s literally what they do on sopranos. Your just Jewish af. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49841268) |
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Date: April 25th, 2026 3:11 AM Author: crystalline corn cake The Sopranos was a case study in sociopaths in the literal mafia. Landman is supposed to be vanilla America in the oil patch. Only the cartel dude is supposed to be a sociopath. Not the same thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49841322) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:02 AM Author: lilac office They just press whatever buttons they think will appeal to Proles. That’s all they do. It’s not supposed to be vanilla at all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843755) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:03 AM Author: Crawly rehab love of her life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843756) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:34 AM Author: Learning disabled crackhouse It was more than a case study of the mafia. Tony and his family were the vehicle for Chase to critique America. This was obvious enough that you don’t even need a Loser film critic to point it out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843774) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:39 AM Author: lilac office Chase was just obsessed with the relationship between Tony and his mother imo. It’s the heart of the show to him.
Also people who kill people constantly aren’t as taken aback when someone dies. It’s TV also, they have to move on to the next thing. |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:12 AM Author: Learning disabled crackhouse I’m a dissenter in that I prefer the latter seasons when he really leaned into the surreal dream sequences and stuff. I stand by my assertion that fat mouth-breathing Tony in a bath robe was a metaphor for the US. I know that Scumbags idolize Tony but I think this irked Chase. He probably would’ve toned down the violent mafia stuff if he could’ve. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843814) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:21 AM Author: lilac office My favorite episode is probably the dream sequence/pussy’s death arc but iirc the fandom has very low regard for it, as if it’s a Joke. It’s a weird fandom imo. And it’s not in the best State. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843821) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 9:53 PM Author: Exhilarant Business Firm wtf? You must be overvaluing some dumbass take you read here or on Reddit. S2 finale episode (ie that one with the talking fish Big Pussy) is widely regarded as the best episode in the entire show and many argue it’s the best episode of TV ever made. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49845412) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 10:11 PM Author: lilac office Well, I am a Curator, so I am none too surprised that it's highly regarded. but I am afraid that the Fandom is Toxic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49845438) |
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Date: April 25th, 2026 12:44 AM Author: trip national security agency are they seriously still doing these shitty 900 hour long slowburn TV 'series' things. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49841263) |
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Date: April 25th, 2026 1:10 AM Author: amber stimulating private investor casino Yes and NPCs are saying "I just LOVE Billy Bob Thornton! Did you see Sling Blade?" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49841273) |
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Date: April 25th, 2026 8:30 PM Author: diverse community account library you voted for this. only retarded women and browns are allowed to write anything. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843030) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 9:54 PM Author: Exhilarant Business Firm lol this is famously one of 30 shows that Taylor Sheridan writes simultaneously using his brilliant formula of making shows about mostly white people that take place in Are Country. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49845417) |
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Date: April 27th, 2026 12:55 PM Author: diverse community account library are you retarded? https://youtu.be/YscqvroL7vg |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:07 AM Author: Learning disabled crackhouse These shows are not conceived as a finished coherent product, it’s about stringing along subscribers with “what happens next” and throwing empty spectacle at the viewer to disengage him from scrolling TikTok. Billy Bob Thornton has probably not watched a single episode or even daily because he knows it sucks. He probably has insane demands on set that Paramount executives have to begrudgingly accommodate lol. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843759) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:09 AM Author: crystalline corn cake I just hope he fucked the literal whore they got to play the daughter. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843761) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:18 AM Author: Cerebral pink partner space No "The". Just "Landman". It's cleaner. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843818) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:39 AM Author: Out-of-control insecure national people who are hurt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843843) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:31 AM Author: Boyish Onyx Affirmative Action Orchestra Pit "This show is sps. I've seen every episode and here are my thoughts..." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843838) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:49 AM Author: cowardly rusted associate native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843853) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:37 AM Author: twinkling depressive genital piercing Never heard of it, brother. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843840) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:39 AM Author: Out-of-control insecure national people who are hurt Is Paramount+ actually popular or something? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843845) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:54 AM Author: crystalline corn cake I pay for it because it’s comes with Nickelodeon and the kids need to watch Sponge Bob. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843857) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 9:33 PM Author: Out-of-control insecure national people who are hurt They should be watching more chill stuff. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49845361) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:47 AM Author: Drab abnormal stage mood All of Taylor Sheridan’s shows end up as shit pure shit, it’s just a question of long it takes to get there. Landman is about one season. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860307&forum_id=2#49843851) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:13 PM Author: deep sandwich center It's really a bizarre show. I get why people like it because its so unlike anything on TV, but
- the son is so annoying and he gets in the worse situations but then suddenly 20 minutes later they're just okay
- the daughter and wife too also get into hijinx that never has any stakes and then they always prevail because they're good people even though theyre superficial
- Thornton and Andy Garcia always act like they don't like each other but hten they just do deal after deal with each other with no conflict
It's like Yellowstone in that the show looks great, and the actors are pretty likable, but the plot sucks and nothing ever happens that makes sense.
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:44 PM Author: lilac office the son sucks. they just want to give him something to do. him getting with the widow is one of those things you see in drama and is basically one of the tropes sitting in the writers' proverbial parts bin. Sometimes characters just Exist and have nothing to do e.g. Sam Elliot.
the daughter is too hot to criticize imo.
the ex-wife gets too much screentime and is a Joke but that's how these things go, there are proles/Women who have no idea what billy bob is doing but her shit entertains them. Like when she wins $1,000,000k in the casino randomly like it's nbd. It makes prole viewers feel like they have this Cool friend who Wins constantly. and her dinnertime Tantrums remind me of irl prole gtg's.
Billy Bob is similar in a way. High Scumbag. CEO of an oil major somehow knows who he is. Begs him to work for him. Drives to locations that are like 1000k miles away within the span of a workday. He's just a prole who drives around a lot. He's like the Platonic ideal of those proles who drive around constantly. That is the target audience.
I like what Garcia is doing with it. He's better than Jon Hamm was in this and better than other things he's done where he's forgettable af iirc. The "hating each other but then doing shit with no conflict" is an alpha male Businessman thing. So is having enough leverage/power to Destroy someone and then not doing it even if you're a cold blooded killer. The stakes aren't high enough for them to want to do that. Most fans can't follow the Businessy shit either. Proles are used to not knowing wtf is going on. The Business is just a vehicle to create Drama. Maybe next the daughter will get Kidnapped. It's really not that different from a soap opera or something. Especially when proles watch it with Motion Smoothing on, aka the Soap Opera Effect. It's fundamentally The Same. |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 9:30 PM Author: deep sandwich center I think the show is at its best when its almost a serial - like when the workers get into that toxic cloud or the guy gets slammed by the pipes.
But the show seems to focus on the family and the business - but they also seem to run away from making it interesting at all.
A great example of this is the son's wells. It's stupid this kid somehow is able to create this billion dollar business as a 20 year old kid, but okay - let's go with it. Then we find out Andy Garcia funded it - and we think - "okay shit - it's on now. the plot thickens." But the plot doesn't thicken - nothing really comes of it.
The best example is when Billy Bob gets fired and forms his new drilling company. You think, "Okay - it's going down now. People are going to choose sides and we're going to have a battle in season 3. Billy Bob is going to have face off against his friends, the bitch lawyer, etc" But they all just side with Billy Bob. As far as I can tell, it's the same show next season but with even less conflict...
The only clear conflict in the show is that for some reason, Billy Bob can't ever just eat the pasta his wife cooked for him and instead has to pick a fight with her and mention that she's on her period, which for some reason always makes her stop throwing glass against the wall and makes her want to have sex with him. |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 10:10 PM Author: lilac office And none of this actually matters
you can see why it ends up the way that it does. the producers know the audience doesn't care. one of the writers tries to pen an ingenious plot filled with twists and turns. the producers don't care. Taylor just wants to wear a cowboy hat. Billy Bob wants $10,000,000k. You end up with fragments of that plot but it doesn't resolve. The fact that seasons are only 10 episodes is a big factor in this. They don't have enough airtime to flesh everything out. They keep their options open, write a bunch of "plot" stuff, but when push comes to shove they decide to focus on Women visiting old people. Because honestly just picture the audience. They aren't going to be able to follow the Business shit through twists and turns spanning multiple episodes. It just doesn't work. This is why people fall asleep during the godfather. It just doesn't work irl. They couldn't make it work if they wanted.
I've talked to proles irl who talk about this show. I can tell what parts they light up at and which they're like wtf. you're a retard and Poor if you overestimate the audience. The audience is probably like 60% female irl. You can't not have it be a Soap Opera (hopefully with Motion Smoothing), and retain that audience.
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