EXCLUSIVE : Taylor Sheridan struck an immediate vein in Landman ‘s first season, and he is trying to raise the stakes with several important additions in the show’s second season that began Sunday on Paramount+. First was getting his 1883 star Sam Elliott to join the oil-drilling drama as the estranged father of Billy Bob Thornton ‘s Tommy Norris. That makes three tangled and complex generations of Norris men — Jacob Lofland’s Cooper Norris is the other — and it is clear that Sheridan’s going deep this time into fathers and sons.

It is a theme that reverberated with both Thornton and Elliott, I was to discover. The only regret from here is that readers don’t get to listen to the lyrical voices these two great actors and longtime pals brought to the table when we met at the Pl

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