Set in the stark desert of West Texas, the Paramount+ drama follows an oil company's dogged fixer as he tries to prevent the rigs, his family, and the American dream from falling apart.

Billy Bob Thornton is about as rugged, no-nonsense, and tough as a leading man gets, and he receives a prime opportunity to tap into those qualities—as well as his gift for hard-bitten humor—with Landman,

A landman has the weight of the world on his shoulders,” Billy Bob Thornton tells TV Insider about his Landman character Tommy Norris, who does the burdensome dirty job in the West Texas oil fields in this series written and executive produced by Yellowstone‘s Taylor Sheridan.