Landman Season 2 Is Poised to Turn Kayla Wallace’s Arc on Its Head
Landman Season 2 hits Paramount+ on November 16, and it might blow up everything you thought you knew about Kayla Wallace’s Rebecca Falcone. Taylor Sheridan’s oilfield drama roars back with grit, bite, and surprising heart, and with Season 1 casting real doubt on Rebecca’s motives—especially after that confession to Tommy—her arc looks primed for a game-changing rewrite.
Landman is back in a minute, and I have a feeling Season 2 might blow up Rebecca Falcone as we know her. The Taylor Sheridan oil drama returns Sunday, November 16 on Paramount+, and it is exactly what you expect from this guy: hard-nosed characters, rattling tension, and then out of nowhere, an emotional gut punch. Season 1 already positioned Rebecca as a wildcard. Now it looks like Sheridan might be lining up something bigger.
The setup: Rebecca is not who she said she was
In Season 1, Kayla Wallace showed up as Rebecca, a sharp city lawyer with a complicated relationship to the Permian Basin and the business she’s helping. By the finale, her backstory cracked: she confessed to Tommy that the story she used to tell other lawyers about her dad dying in combat was made up. The truth? Her father is a banker in the city. Right after that, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones popped in for a cameo telling Jon Hamm’s Monty Miller to keep family close in business. And then Monty turned around and promoted Rebecca to CEO. That sequence was... conspicuous.
The theory: Is Rebecca actually Monty’s daughter?
Hear me out. It sounds big, but it fits the show’s favorite themes: legacy, bloodlines, and the price of power. And there are a few moments that make the idea feel less like wild fan fiction and more like a door the show deliberately left unlocked.
- Rebecca’s war-story lie vs. her real banker dad: She admitted she fabricated the fallen-soldier story to sway other attorneys. A fan even compared it to Mad Men’s identity bait-and-switch. Why lie that boldly unless your actual parentage is a grenade you do not want going off?
- Jerry Jones tells Monty to bring family into the fold... then Monty promotes Rebecca to CEO: That is a very specific chain of events. If Rebecca is secretly his kid, that promotion reads less like a risky bet and more like long-delayed penance.
- Angela Norris’ running gag that the name 'Rebecca Falcon' sounds like a superhero alias: it’s a joke, sure, but it nails how intentionally constructed Rebecca feels.
"Rebecca Falcon sounds like a fake Marvel character name."
Pushback is fair. Some fans think a secret-daughter twist would feel forced, especially since Rebecca’s reaction to Monty’s death in Season 1 was pretty restrained. Totally get it. But Sheridan loves detonating family secrets for maximum fallout. Yellowstone’s Jamie adoption reveal in Season 3 is Exhibit A. If anything, tying Rebecca to Monty would finally give her a clean, personal throughline instead of keeping her as the enigmatic closer in a nice suit.
If the twist lands, expect Jon Hamm back... in memories
Monty is gone, but if Rebecca is his daughter, flashbacks are a layup. It explains Rebecca’s rapid rise, reframes Monty’s last-minute faith in her as guilt-adjacent atonement, and keeps Hamm involved just enough to deepen the mythology. There is also juicy ground with Demi Moore’s Cami. If Monty had a hidden first daughter, how did Cami fit into that picture, and how much did she know?
On the office front, Tommy leaned hard on Rebecca in Season 1. If Rebecca learns Monty was her father after the fact, that reliance could flip into distrust, ambition, or both. Does she double down on the empire because it is hers by blood, or recoil from the realization that her wins might be touched by nepotism?
The emotional math: posthumous reveals always hit different
Learning who your father was when he is not around to answer for it is a story engine all by itself. It is anger, curiosity, and grief braided together. Rebecca has been playing the game with a cool head and a ruthless streak. A revelation like this could turn her into something sharper and more dangerous, or finally crack the armor and force her into real introspection. Either way, it gives Kayla Wallace a lot to chew on.
So where do I land? It is a swing, but it is the kind of swing Sheridan takes when he wants to make a character indispensable.
When to watch
Landman Season 2 premieres Sunday, November 16, exclusively on Paramount+. If this twist is coming, the early episodes are where the sparks usually start flying.
Your turn: if Rebecca finds out Monty was her father, does it break her or make her unstoppable?