Season 2 of " Landman " drops on Paramount+ Sunday, and North Texas has been buzzing for months.

The series spent the summer filming across Fort Worth and Dallas , shutting down streets, transforming neighborhoods into backlots and stirring up a wave of social media posts from fans catching the action.

The show returns Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris, a landman navigating the high-stakes world of West Texas oil. For Fort Worth oil executive Tom Bass Jr, much of it hits close to home.

"I am an oil man through and through," Bass said. "I've been in so many facets of work in this business, I've gone the whole gamut, even working with landmen."

Bass, president of Bass Energy Company and Triumph Resources Corp., grew up in Fort Worth and lived next door to "Landman" creator Taylo

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