Landman Season 2 Premiere Strikes Oil With 9.2 Million Views in Its First 48 Hours
Taylor Sheridan's Landman strikes pay dirt as the Season 2 premiere hauls in 9.2 million views on Paramount+ in its first two days.
Taylor Sheridan dropped Landman Season 2 on Paramount+ and, no surprise, people showed up. The premiere pulled 9.2 million views in its first 48 hours, which is a monster jump over how the show started earlier this year.
The numbers (and what they actually mean)
Paramount says the Season 2 premiere landed 9.2 million views in its first two days after it hit Paramount+ on Nov. 16, 2024. Worth noting: the streamer is doing that thing where a 'view' is not a literal click. They took total minutes watched and divided by the episode's runtime to get that view count. Streamer math, but at least they explain it.
However you slice it, the growth looks big. Paramount is calling it a 262% increase over the series premiere earlier in 2024. On top of that, they say Season 1 got a huge halo effect: sampling for the first season is up 320% since the Season 2 drop. For that stat, they compared how much Season 1 was watched in the two days after the new premiere versus Season 1 viewing over the previous 28 days. It is an internal metric, but it points to a lot of people either catching up or jumping in.
What Season 2 is about
'As oil rises from the earth, so do secrets – and Tommy Norris's (Thornton) breaking point may be closer than he realizes. Facing mounting pressure from M-Tex Oil, Cami Miller (Moore), and the shadow of his kin, survival in West Texas isn't noble – it's brutal. And sooner or later something's got to break.'
Cast
- Billy Bob Thornton leads as Tommy Norris
- Demi Moore
- Andy Garcia
- Ali Larter
- Sam Elliott
- Jacob Lofland
- Michelle Randolph
- Paulina Chávez
- Kayla Wallace
- Mark Collie
- James Jordan
- Colm Feore
Early reaction
JoBlo's Alex Maidy is into the new season, calling it a strong addition to the Sheridan-verse and, yes, more fun than Season 1. He digs that the first three episodes dig deeper into Tommy's family history and the work/family pressure cooker, and he highlights Demi Moore and Andy Garcia taking up more space this time while the rest of the ensemble stays rock solid.
Maidy even says Thornton's turn here gives him more to play than what Kevin Costner, Sylvester Stallone, or the other headline stars have had in Sheridan's other shows, and he thinks the show has the consistency to run for a while.
'I cannot wait to find out where this series will go next.'