‘Landman’: A TV Series That Tells The Truth About Energy – Billy Bob Thornton in two-minute clip offers a stirring defense of the American energy industry
Great clip from “Landman”. Wind turbines are the worst nonsense foisted on humanity. Hugely expensive, short lifespan, never recoup the carbon used to install them, intermittent, destructive to the natural world & need fossil fuels to work. A total scam pic.twitter.com/UTq771Mig7
— Return of Rome (@return_of_rome) November 26, 2024
Who says there isn’t anything worthwhile on TV? The new Paramount+ series, “Landman”, is produced by Tyler Chandler – the creator of the hit Western series “Yellowstone.”
The series is set in West Texas and tells the story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires that are fueling a fossil fuel boom so big it’s reshaping our economy and our geopolitics.
Billy Bob Thornton plays a “Landman” (a guy who acquires mineral and land rights in the hope of finding oil). A man of few words, he nonetheless becomes eloquent in this clip telling a reporter how the stuff he looks for under the ground makes “our cars and our lives and our planes and everything in our modern world go.” Watch the two-minute clip for a stirring defense of the American energy industry, which despite climate naysayers, is the envy of the world.
Billy Bob Thornton is like a cross between a cowboy, a lawyer, and that uncle who always wins the poker game, even when he’s cheating. And just when you think you’ve got him figured out—bam!—he pulls the rug out from under you. Taylor Sheridan’s Landman is outstanding with an… pic.twitter.com/2YbJhRUayl
— Melody Zare (@MelodyZare) November 27, 2024