10 Shows Like Taylor Sheridan's Landman

Landman is the latest hit drama series from superproducer Taylor Sheridan. It stars Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris, the titular landman, whose job is fixing problems for an oil drilling company in the wild lands of West Texas. He has to deal with drug cartels, workplace accidents, legal issues, and whatever else each workday throws at him, while also dealing with his demanding (ex-)wife Angela (Ali Larter), rebellious daughter Ainsley (Michelle Randolph), and trouble-prone son Cooper (Jacob Lofland). It's a funny, soapy series about one of the country's most important and most lucrative industries, told in Sheridan's inimitable style. 

Paramount+ has not officially renewed the show for a second season yet, but we're sure that it will. In the meantime, here are 10 other shows like Landman to watch while you wait for Taylor Sheridan to have time to work on it again. Our list has other Sheridan hits, other Texas-sized dramas, and shows featuring Landman cast members. So fill up the truck and head out to the patch, where we're pumping TV recs out of the ground.

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Yellowstone

If you've somehow watched Landman but not Taylor Sheridan's flagship series, the neo-Western saga Yellowstone, you should rectify that. The shows have a ton of stuff in common, from character archetypes and dynamics to scenes where the narrative pauses to just watch people work for a while. Landman is funnier, though. Yellowstone is set in Montana and follows rancher John Dutton (Kevin Costner) and his family as they try to hold on to their ranch, facing off against enemies who want to take it.  

Tulsa King

This Sylvester Stallone-led mobster show is the Sheridanverse's other comedy. (Sheridan created the series but only wrote the first episode; he's mostly hands off on this one.) Sly plays Dwight "the General" Manfredi, a New York mobster who gets sent to live in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It's supposed to be a banishment, but he ends up making the most of it, assembling a misfit crew and setting up some profitable illegal businesses. Like Landman, it's about a guy who's really good at his job, played with great humor and charisma by a one-of-a-kind movie star. 

Mayor of Kingstown

One more Sheridan show for you. Mayor of Kingstown is much darker than Landman is, but it's also about a fixer in a controversial, highly lucrative industry. Jeremy Renner stars as Mike McLusky, the titular unofficial mayor of a Michigan town where the local industry is prisons. McLusky has to try to keep the peace between the prisons, the gangs, the police, and the ordinary people caught in the middle, all while dealing with constant family problems. It's a gritty and violent crime drama that shows a different side of Sheridan, but not that different.

Dallas 

Without Dallas, there would be no Yellowstone or Landman. The mega-popular primetime soap opera ran for 14 seasons from 1978 to 1991 and follows the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family involved in both the oil and ranching industries. It was the Yellowstone of its day, and everyone who was alive in 1980 remembers wondering "Who shot J.R.?" The large ensemble cast includes Barbara Bel Geddes, Patrick Duffy, and, of course, Larry Hagman as larger-than-life oilman J.R. Ewing. 

Goliath 

If you need more Billy Bob, check out this legal drama that ran on Prime Video for four seasons from 2016 to 2021. Here, Thornton plays Billy McBride, a brilliant but down-on-his-luck, alcoholic attorney who tries to get redemption for his past of representing crooks and scoundrels by fighting now for truth and justice. You can feel the world-weary crankiness Thornton brings to the role just from reading that sentence, right? Goliath was co-created (with Jonathan Shapiro) by David E. Kelley, one of the only other TV writers as successful and prolific as Taylor Sheridan. 

Friday Night Lights

The biggest thing FNL has in common with Landman is Texas. Both shows are deeply rooted in the culture of West Texas and are filmed on location, because it's hard to fake that flat, expansive landscape. The beloved high school drama follows the Dillon Panthers, a high school football team coached by Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler), through the ups and downs of life. Even if you don't care about football and have been out of high school for decades, you'll find yourself caring deeply about what happens to these kids, because Friday Night Lights isn't really about football; it's about everything — sort of like how Landman isn't just about oil; it's about life in America at this moment in time. 

American Primeval

Netflix's limited series American Primeval is the show least like Landman on this list, and it's on here for the simple fact that if you liked Landman, you'll probably enjoy this one, too. It's a brutally violent Western about the settling of Utah in the 1850s, with an excellent cast that includes Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, Dane DeHaan, and Shea Whigham. It's directed by Peter Berg, who also created Friday Night Lights, and he is interested in a lot of the same things as Taylor Sheridan. They both like telling stories about the ruggedness it takes to survive in the West, and how people aren't different now than they were back then once you take them even a little bit outside of polite society.

Fargo

If Landman left you wanting more Hamm, check out Fargo Season 5. Jon Hamm has become one of TV's go-to guys when a show needs a charismatic authority figure for one season. He's in Landman as Monty Miller, Tommy Norris' billionaire oilman boss, and right before that he earned an Emmy nomination for playing Roy Tillman, the corrupt sheriff of a rural North Dakota county, in the fifth installment of Noah Hawley's reliable crime anthology series. Tillman is different than any other character Hamm has played before — he's usually played complicated antiheroes, not outright villains like this — but he brings his usual magnetism to the role. Billy Bob Thornton, meanwhile, played hitman Lorne Malvo in Season 1.

Justified

Justified differs from Landman in the specifics of its plot — Justified is a propulsive crime thriller, whereas Landman doesn't have a plot in any traditional TV sense — but both shows are witty and gritty neo-Westerns set in a corner of America you don't usually see on TV. The great Timothy Olyphant stars as Raylan Givens, a U.S. Marshal from Harlan County, Kentucky, tasked with using his insider knowledge of the mountains, hollers, and people of this part of Appalachia to track down fugitives from justice. And he has his own ideas about justice. Olyphant, with his likeable tough guy persona, would be a perfect leading man for a Sheridan show, especially a funny one.

Blood & Oil 

This short-lived primetime soap ran for one season on ABC in 2015 and tried to do a neo-Dallas thing a few years before Taylor Sheridan nailed it. Blood & Oil is set in a North Dakota oil boomtown and follows the various characters trying to get rich or stay rich there. Don Johnson — the most perfect Sheridan actor who has yet to appear in a Sheridan production — plays Harlan "Hap" Briggs, a John Dutton-esque oil tycoon and patriarch of a dysfunctional family, who embraces ambitious outsider Billy LeFever (Chace Crawford) over his own screwup son Wick (Scott Michael Foster). It's like Landman without the distinctive dialogue. It's not a great show, but it's dramatic.