Jon Hamm’s Monty Miller could have handed away from coronary heart issues within the dramatic final episode of Landman season 1, however the character’s presence will nonetheless be felt because the present returns for season 2, because of his questionable enterprise practices.
In an interview with ScreenRant‘s Liam Crowley, Landman season 2 star Kayla Wallace mentioned the “lacking items to the puzzle” her character Rebecca should reckon with as M-Tex Oil continues operations within the wake of proprietor Monty’s premature dying.
“The one man that may reply [the questions] is now not right here,” Wallace mentioned of the void left behind by Monty’s passing. “So it’s form of such as you’re in an escape room and, ‘Perhaps we’ll do that. Oh no, that info is just not there. Let’s look right here.’”
The Landman season 2 trailer teased the fallout from Monty’s offers, displaying his widow Cami (Demi Moore) discovering proof of his shady actions. Working M-Tex is now on the deceased Monty’s spouse, and Billy Bob Thornton’s Tommy Norris.
Legal professional Rebecca’s problem is to get contained in the thoughts of Monty, a businessman who “didn’t play by the principles,” Wallace mentioned. She added:
So that you’ll see plenty of obstacles this season. We’ve seen a pair within the first two episodes and also you’ll see many extra coming our means. We would not have it straightforward this yr.
Landman season 2 star Colm Feore echoed these sentiments, discussing the challenges confronted by his character Nathan and Wallace’s Rebecca as the corporate legal professionals clear up the mess left behind from Monty’s unorthodox deal-making.
“Because the reveals come and we attempt to piece collectively what’s occurring, we’re doing it in a really strategic however authorized means,” Feore defined, “and we’re additionally peeling again the layers and saying, ‘Okay, now this, it results in that.’”
Feore teased that Nathan and Rebecca’s frustration will result in violence which “takes issues up a notch so as to open extra doorways and get us heading in the right direction.”
“And I feel the viewers will discover it very compelling,” Feore added. He then went deeper into the key of Monty’s success as an oil-man, which was extra to do along with his fearlessness as a gambler than any particular enterprise acumen he could have possessed:
Significantly once I questioned your use of the phrase unlawful, one in all Monty’s greatest methods was taking part in throughout the guidelines, however being actually, actually prepared to danger complete collapse, as Tommy says of him means again in season one, I feel to Boss and one of many different guys there, the rationale he’s a billionaire is he put all of it on black and gained.
Monty’s gambles put Nathan and Rebecca in a troublesome spot, Feore then defined:
And so he didn’t inform us that that’s what he was doing, which is the issue, as a result of we do the day-to-day work. When Rebecca, as a litigator is available in to do the defend the corporate work, that’s after we want the solutions to these things. On the day-to-day, I’m in a must know foundation. I’ll simply get this contract, you signal it, we do it. That’s that.
Along with Feore and Wallace, and the aforementioned Thornton and Moore, the Landman season 2 forged consists of returning stars Ali Larter, Jacob Lofland, and Michelle Randolph, together with new addition Sam Elliott. Andy Garcia sees an expanded season 2 position after getting visitor star billing in season 1.
Landman season 2 premieres on Paramount+ on November 16, with new episodes releasing every Sunday.
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November 16, 2025
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Paramount+
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