‘Landman’ Finally Proves Why Tommy & Angela Are Meant To Be

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Landman Season 1 finale.]

No amount of immaculately served paella or acrobatic sex is going to ever make Tommy Norris a romantic. When times get tough, Billy Bob Thornton’s character in Paramount+’s Landman is the first to call up his ex-wife and current partner Angela (Ali Larter) just to say he loves her. But that’s about all the romance you are going to get out of the guy.

It’s just one of the many reasons why Tommy and Angela are the proverbial oil and water that should never go together. He is content living a life working the endless oil fields of West Texas, and she lives life like she is riding a mechanical bull — hard, fast, and easily thrown off course. And yet, their rekindled relationship has become one of the more stable parts of Tommy’s life as the first season ends. No, that isn’t a compliment to their strengths as a couple because, let’s face it, they have been volatile at best since reuniting while she was still married to another man. Rather, it is an acknowledgment that everything else in Tommy’s life has taken a turn for the severe in the final episodes of the season.