“Landman” with Billy Bob Thornton, macho breakdown – Libération

On Paramount+, the new creation by the prolix Taylor Sheridan follows the same recipe as the previous ones (“Yellowstone”, “Tulsa King”…) with its paragon of male Americanness which clashes with the modern world. But this time, we're wearing cowboy boots.

Since the resounding success of Yellowstone across the Atlantic, its screenwriter and showrunner Taylor Sheridan aligns the series with impressive productivity, linked by contract to Paramount: Landman is the sixth creation that he has put on the air there in six years. Former actor in trouble, seen at the end of the 2000s in Veronica Mars or Sons of Anarchyconverted successful screenwriter (Sicario and its variations, already on America and its borders), Sheridan appears today as a sort of testosterone counterpart to Ryan Murphy, the other mogul of the series, just as verbose but on a more queer side (American Horror Story, Feud : Capote vs. The Swans…).

Sheridan's series follow a well-oiled formula: generally organized around an ultra-identified male figure of Americanness (