Landman fans better get comfortable waiting for new episodes.
Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ hit has become one of the biggest shows on the streamer, with Billy Bob Thornton leading the way as Tommy Norris, a West Texas landman trying to keep an increasingly chaotic oil business — and his even more chaotic family — from falling apart.
That combination has made Landman an especially easy show to get hooked on. There’s plenty of the darker, high-stakes drama that comes with a Sheridan production, but the series also has a surprisingly goofy sense of humor. One minute Tommy is dealing with a potentially catastrophic problem in the oil field, and the next he’s arguing with a family member about something completely ridiculous.
Clearly, viewers have been eating it up. Season 2 became a record-setting hit for Paramount+, and the streamer renewed Landman for a third season. The only problem is that fans are going to have to wait quite a bit longer to see it.
Season 2 ended on January 18, 2026, and while there had been some hope that the show could return before the end of this year, that’s officially looking like a pipe dream. James Jordan, who plays Dale, recently gave an update on production that pretty much confirms Season 3 won’t arrive in 2026.
“I believe we’re bringing back the same director, Stephen Kay, who I adore. So it’s going to be a great ride. We start that sometime in September and we’ll shoot that through the first quarter of next year,” Jordan told Us Weekly.
That’s a pretty clear indication that Landman is going to be a 2027 show. There still isn’t an official premiere date from Paramount+, but if production runs through the first quarter of next year, fans should probably be thinking about the middle or latter part of 2027 rather than holding out hope for a surprise return this year.
And there’s plenty waiting for Tommy whenever the show does come back.
Season 2 ended with Tommy officially breaking away from M-Tex after Cami Miller (Demi Moore) fired him. Rather than simply find another job, he decided to take a much bigger gamble and start his own oil company, CTT Oil Exploration and Cattle, with his son Cooper (Jacob Lofland) serving as president. Tommy also brought several familiar faces into the new operation, including T.L., Dale, Rebecca, Nate, Boss and Ariana.
Of course, Tommy’s shiny new business comes with a pretty significant catch: Gallino (Andy Garcia) is backing it.
That means Tommy may have escaped M-Tex, but he’s hardly free of trouble. Gallino has a lot of money riding on the new company, and he made it very clear that Tommy will pay a steep price if the venture fails.
Cooper also ended the season in a much better place than it initially looked like he would. After killing the man who attacked Ariana, he was facing the possibility of a murder charge. Rebecca stepped in to help, and Tommy eventually convinced the authorities to leave Cooper alone after it became clear that the attacker had died from a heart attack rather than the injuries Cooper inflicted.
By the end of the finale, the Norris family had somehow gone from Tommy losing his job to launching an entirely new oil company. Not a bad turnaround for a single episode.
There’s also a nice bit of irony to where Season 2 leaves things. Tommy spends much of the season worrying about everything that could go wrong, only to finish the finale surrounded by his family and longtime colleagues, with a new business and a fresh start in front of him.
But this is Landman, so nobody should expect that good fortune to last forever.
For now, fans will just have to wait. Season 3 is coming, but with production stretching into 2027, 2026 is officially off the table. And considering the mess Tommy, Cooper and the rest of the Norris clan have created for themselves, the wait might be frustrating — but there’s a pretty good chance it’ll be worth it.
