Landman , the new drama series on Paramount+, opens with protagonist Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) tied to a chair and surrounded by members of a Mexican drug cartel. He’s trying to get them to sign away their land so that the oil company he works for can drill there. Despite his compromised position, he’s able to sway his captors by rattling off an apparently convincing series of facts and figures. A few minutes later, Tommy’s young son Cooper (Jacob Lofland) is picked up in a big pickup