SPOILER ALERT: This post contains light spoilers from Season 2, Episode 5 of “Landman,” “The Pirate Dinner,” which premiered Sunday, Dec. 14, on Paramount+.
During the newest episode of the Paramount+ drama “Landman,” no love was shown to the daytime talk show “The View.”
In the episode, Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton) is urging his father, T.L. (Sam Elliott), to kill time around the house by watching a TV show and suggests “The View.” When T.L. admits that he doesn’t know what that is, Tommy explains it as, “A bunch of pissed-off millionaires bitching about how much they hate millionaires and Trump and men and you and me and everybody else they got a bee up their ass about. It’s pretty funny.”
T.L. responds, “Don’t sound funny.”
Tommy replies, “Well, it ain’t joke funny, it’s like ‘fart in church’ funny, you know what I mean?”
T.L. retorts, “That don’t sound funny, either.”
Tommy then clarifies, “Well, it depends on your proximity to the fart.”
Sheridan, who co-created the series and has the sole writing credit on all episodes in Seasons 1 and 2, often uses Tommy to opine on a litany of topics, ranging from alternative wind energy to country radio DJs. That said, real-life pop culture is very rarely discussed on the show, so it was surprising to hear “The View” brought up as a point of derision.
Thornton was most recently on “The View” in 2024 for a lively and charming visit promoting the series premiere of “Landman.” Watch the segment below.
