Landman | Tommy Negotiates a Service Lease (S1, E1) | Paramount+

[@jadefire1814]

Whoever is writing Billy Bob's monologues is an absolute freakin' monster!

[@JonatanRonnlycke]

I would guess he’s pretty involved in his own script.

[@n7346e]

Could be. He’s from Midland.

[@Blitz_litz]

@@JonatanRonnlyckeyea I think so to Billy bobs has always talked like that

[@RockoSDMF]

That would be Taylor Sheridan.

[@toddrs931]

I bet he is doing most of it himself. The dialogue or very similar to bad Santa. In fact the one line - wish in one hand s**t in the other- is from bad Santa

[@keatonlacretin9781]

This wasn’t even scripted. The camera crew walked in on Billy Bob Thorton negotiating with the cartel

[@nic-tv4090]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mattneal5257]

Hahaha! This is awesome

[@CHD1776]

Name drops Halliburton right out of the gate. Gotta love big Red!

[@yeskatribe1]

Triple canopy was the name drop

[@JohnDoe69986]

@@yeskatribe1both

[@martinlebreton6391]

Completely clueless to what Halliburton does.😂

[@merockunot]

@@yeskatribe1 ,I caught that too, I was with them for 6 years

[@jamespotter936]

Two of my mom's brothers worked for Halliburton.

[@AndthenthereisCencorship-xc6yi]

Billybob kills this! He still has a sharp mind and a terrific delivery of every word.

[@tonyng1600]

i love billy bob's conversation with the female lawyer the best, especially when he talk about wind energy is not clean energy but alternative energy

[@bigv3210]

to bad its all bs to sound good in the show. Great speech but no where even close to the truth.

[@hint0122]

​@@bigv3210 oh really? Tell me, can you produce a wind turbine without oil?

[@ik-ip9id]

@@hint0122 of course it takes oil to produce and install a wind turbine, but once installed it only takes 6-12 months of power production (depending on the size of the generator inside the wind turbine) to offset the carbon emissions that it took to build it. Vestas new 4.2 MW land based turbines become energy neutral in 4.8 months if they run at full load all the time, so even being conservative within a year it's still clean. Oil and gas is still very important, but lying about other energy sources to make a point isn't the best way to go about it (coming from the son of a father who has worked in the oil fields his entire career and I work in the power industry).

[@javiersp]

@@hint0122every technological improvement is built upon the previous one. The same way the world moved from carbon (which is way dirtier and hazardous than oil) to oil using carbon for the transition. And oil companies ARE moving to wind and solar because it’s becoming cheaper and cheaper to produce. Oil is used for way more things than just transportation but in 20-30 years we will be using it l exclusively for that things and not to run vehicles.

[@youMatterItDoesGetBetter]

@@javiersp Pretty much.

[@brianfahey2864]

Feels like Billy Bob Thornton is in his element, like the part was created to fit his persona.

[@getinthespace7715]

Yeah. He's the perfect man for this.

[@markusanderson1517]

He looks like and sounds like he's having a blast. Man .... he's really bringing it on this show!!!

[@chriswhite318]

That's because Taylor Sheridan has said that he literally wrote the script in Billy Bob's voice.

[@juliuskovacs5116]

Gotta love, the guy being held, is the one negotiating

[@spmartin]

Billy Bob is one of our generations stellar actors!

[@francus7227]

I thought the worst of him for 10 years before I saw his first movie....All because he was wear a vial of blood around his neck with Angolina. I thought the exact same of Brad Pitt. Then I started seeing their movies. WOW ! Both are horrible at choosing wives and unbelievable actors.

[@restoredaccess]

"It's the same. Ours is just bigger." There are weight classes for a reason.

[@qrious1797]

Aint nobody more gansta than the bank

[@campandcook3118]

Or a medical insurance. Seen how that ends

[@datguy8123]

Idk, after seeing this I would say it's Big Oil

[@Mr_Meowingtons]

Big Oil and the bank are the only ones that can have the US military sent in..

[@dondj314]

bank finances them all 👍🏽

[@bharathsf]

@@datguy8123 yeah especially after what happened in Syria and what they are trying to do in Russia

[@velocitytransport9599]

Great opening scene. I was hooked.

[@kevinc8955]

I was too until the daughter told her dad she lets her boyfriend splooge wherever he wants as long as it isn’t in her… Or her walking around her dad in her underwear. Their relationship is so bizarre and unbelievable that it has ruined the show for me.

[@lynnmcculloch-m4h]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@StanvilleBrown]

After watching the first episode and this scene I'm hooked can't wait to see where this will season go!

[@markusanderson1517]

I spent the entire afternoon yesterday and watched S1E1 through E7 ..... can't wait another week for E8!!!

[@neogigo]

Taylor Sheridan just hit another home run, bravo 👏🏼 sir

[@StanvilleBrown]

Freaking Facts, I hope we get Mayor of Kingstown season 4!

[@terrytrekas5730]

lets hope he actually finishes this one......

[@chrisjones1796]

Until he gets greedy and screws the pooch..... again.

[@bobschwaller5293]

Thats real truth in what he said too.

[@Brian05819]

I just found this show after I got done watching S2 of Tulsa King. Amazing show.

[@frigofflayhey5976]

Thornton is great in this show

[@chriswhite318]

Alex Meraz forgot to turn his Spanish accent back on when he said "we've got a deal".😂

[@andersonsimcox]

Watched the first couple of episodes yesterday. Awesome show.

[@rapid13]

“Ours is just bigger.” That’s a great line right there.

[@phillipdavidhaskett7513]

It's actually called a "surface" lease. The surface estate is servient to the mineral estate, which has to accommodate surface use pursuant to Getty Oil co. v. Jones, 470 S.W.2d 618 (Tex. 1971). Naturally, it's a pretty complex subject which is continually evolving. The Texas Supreme Court is the go-to authority on the subject of fluidic hydrocarbon extraction.

[@DanDober]

No one cares man

[@phillipdavidhaskett7513]

@@DanDober Ouch, my balls! Real Landmen care, because it's what we do for a (pretty good) living. You can go back to your s**t job now.

[@smctrout4423]

​@@DanDoberThe show more believable when it is factually accurate on the details.

[@allthingsharbor]

@@DanDober Ah, but the real world cares, man. There is money to be made in it. I got friends drawing checks quarterly on land that was 'surface sold' a generation or more ago...all due to the contracts over the mineral rights to the goodies below.

[@smctrout4423]

This is a lot like the Sopranos episode where a couple of the wise guys try to sell protection to a Starbucks.

[@Warszawski_Modernizm]

Yeah, same spirit - megacorps dgaf

[@shanejoseph1700]

Billy Bob Thornton is so good he is a goat

[@MrARhodes]

Fargo solidified that statement with 'im (me). 🐐🫡

[@sbquad]

And for those of you that don't live in Texas this episode is exactly the reason we want the border secure.

[@patrikjohansson5939]

To keep the oil industry out?

[@eggos5074]

you do realize the immigration problem is because they get jobs and look who hires them the same people complaining about the problem.

[@Jamhael1]

​@@patrikjohansson5939 no - to keep the drugs in.

[@Bobby-bl6og]

It's a tv show snowflake

[@nunyabeeswax2575]

​@@patrikjohansson5939 I want to believe you're joking but the more I think about it, the other option suits you better.

[@gripgamebjj]

I wouldn't want to mess the that cartel leader and that big dude in the back with the black tank , Billy Bob killed it

[@SuperDrake85]

Just a business discussion between representatives of a really big cartel and a much smaller one.

[@gripgamebjj]

@SuperDrake85 I like that..

[@hint0122]

It's two business leaders discussing a deal. One is an relatively new one, one's old with 99.9 of the population of the planet depending on it in some form.

[@DavidSugg-s8y]

Yes in real life oil companies like this make more in a month than these cartels make in a year so the cartel doesn't mess with the oil execs bc they own enough firepower to wipe out a cartel in no time 😊

[@SuperDrake85]

@@DavidSugg-s8y On the other hand, oil companies, while not necessarily seedy and corrupt, are only focused on production and distribution of their product (which is already a difficult job). So they're not going to get themselves involved in drug interdiction unless it somehow affects the production and distribution of energy (which it never would).

[@chazyparra1961]

I love this episode because of how Tommy explains about the windmills and how clean energy isn’t so clean 🤐 good information to know 👍

[@XShadowAngel]

Always neat when my boys at Triple Canopy get a name drop.

[@patrickkenyon2326]

One does not name drop the No Such Agency boys who do not exist.

[@jimhart4488]

It's a SURFACE lease not a service lease. Oil companies have rights to the subsurface minerals but if they do not own the land, they have to lease the surface in order to get access to extract the minerals

[@kennfulton7658]

Billy bob is just terrific in this role , I just thinking where’s his red suit 😊

[@RLNiner]

This is the moment, at the very start, when I knew this show would be amazing!

[@frankford1115]

Billy Bob is the man.

[@IphigeniaAtAulis]

Billy Bob's not wrong. The oil industry doesn't mess around.

[@gibu002]

The scene itself may be out there and unrealistic, and we even missed the unalive guy it starts with, but the picture this scene gives about just how powerful big oil and big business in general is, that part is VERY realistic and VERY true. Excellent show. Only wish I could binge the entire season right now. Only 6 episodes total in season one I think I read so thats a big bummer as well.

[@weirdshibainu]

Not really unrealistic when you consider Big Oil has had entire regimes overthrown to keep the rights to drill.

[@JLee-g6w]

There’s 10 episodes in season 1

[@gibu002]

@@JLee-g6w Good news. Thanks.

[@dustinpomeroy8817]

This aint unrealistic,you think theres no reason why people want the borders protected?Cartels run Mexico,not the government,Big Oil runs the US not the government.

[@johanstinson]

Nothing unrealistic about this at all if you undeeerand how the oil industry moves

[@dustinwarren470]

Good god man Billy is the greatest actor in 3 generations.

[@caseclosed9342]

3:36 Epic monologue. Also, impressed Tommy uses a Zippo and not a Bic.

[@thomasborger6548]

And Zippos are still made in the USA

[@benjaminperez7328]

@@thomasborger6548 BRADFORD, PA.

[@jamesweir2943]

I think Jim Bob’s got himself a gold mine going on here just like Stallone does with that Tulsa gig he’s got on TV. I’m really getting off on this show and I never was much a follower of Billy Bob Thornton, but he sure got a grip on this part.

[@tomsisk6811]

​@@thomasborger6548Bradford Pa 👍

[@chazyparra1961]

Plz come out with second season !!! I love this show !!!!!

[@michaelaldrich5975]

I LOVE the tidbits I am seeing from KZbin, but I can't pay for Paramount+. Absolutely love BBT!

[@unc1589]

Probably the best episode 1 I’ve ever seen. Hooked. Full stop.

[@MrBosco55]

This show ROCKS.

[@joesmith1946]

This scene makes me want to buy stock in an oil company. Seems like a pretty good business.

[@giantslug6969]

Cartels are about to get their butts stretched by tier 1 operators anyway.

[@89thunderfoot]

It's gonna be beautiful

[@henryrodgers1752]

Red *IS* the color which symbolizes MAGA.

[@fartgod6983]

America has lost since WW2. They will fail in Mexico just like they failed everywhere else.

[@johanstinson]

Lol. The CIA will never let that happen.

[@patrickkenyon2326]

​@@fartgod6983Remember when Saddam defeated the US in a month? Oh, wait...

[@danielschmitt1935]

When any actor achieves an award. The writer should accompany the actor onstage to receive it.

[@richardlarson7065]

awesome dialog

[@nunyabusiness5489]

Joke’s on the cartel Lt, he never wrote his address down for the damages payment.

[@jasoncummings7052]

To negotiate like that bounded and bagged with drug cartel takes some next level skills.

[@jake96797]

Triple Canopy All Day

[@yeskatribe1]

Was the only name drop worth mentioning

[@redswift31]

@@yeskatribe1 Do you have any idea who Halliburton is? That was an even bigger name drop.

[@merockunot]

TC 2009-2016

[@NotALot-xm6gz]

When TC rocks up, you best hope you’re the guy that hired them.

[@EveryoneIsAmelak]

Good to know oil companies are working w cartel. Sweet angels all around.

[@glennevitt5250]

This Show is Number 1😎👍

[@DouglasMoraesdsantos]

I almost thought it was Operation Lioness. Good thing I looked closely at the title.

[@dickyo6952]

lioness is also super nice

[@JonatanRonnlycke]

What’s operation lioness? Another tv show? Is it good?

[@squidwarddiesel8462dannyantrim]

​@@JonatanRonnlycke watching it too find out

[@user-pe1ns8bd6j]

Incredible.

[@agustinhidalgo405]

When I think of oil I think of Billy Bob!!!

[@johnnytadwell5976]

Funny how this show makes the Cartel look like they are human.

[@iroc341]

Dude was made for this Role !

[@BizInTheFrontPartyInTheBack]

Looks like Coach Gaines is doing just fine these days and never strayed far from home

[@VolunteerRoadshowTN]

Why am I reminded of his scene in the Alamo tied up in front of Santa Ana negotiating terms of Mexico's surrender?

[@gavobrown]

We were hooked after this.

[@chriskenny6117]

Dialogue is back!!!

[@Benji-e2w]

And they said is bad😂😂 Nice writting and good actors

[@trini_staple]

Not since The Blacklist have I seen a TV show with a more gripping opening scene to the series. I'm in.

[@tidepride86]

If the show can keep up the writing quality for more than two seasons (looking at you Yellowstone), then I'll give this show a chance.

[@JamesSmith-o7f]

I can't afford paramount subscription so I'm watching as many clips I can 😢😢😢😂

[@markusanderson1517]

Take a loan, then. Completely worth it.

[@DanSibley-i4m]

It is a “surface lease”, not a “service lease”

[@jefffromjersey52]

You have to be really really good at your Job to pull this off, with Confidence ... ..amazing Acting ..I wonder if people like this actually exist ..

[@CalvinBrooks-hv2tz]

This is the best show I've seen this year. Except maybe the penguin on HBO. Writing is key.

[@masone4589]

One of my best friends is a landman in South Texas. Pretty sure this isn’t what his day to day looks like 😂

[@picks_1993]

Or so he would have you believe. 🤫

[@patrickkenyon2326]

Just Mondays.

[@Skedawg88]

I had a friend that did the same. As I understand it however, being a landman isn't as necessary as it once was. That is, not as necessary to the business of finding and pumping oil. Times change, technology changes. Geologists are not as needed either.

[@wangfoo2693]

Is Taylor Sheridan gonna reveal all his show takes place on the same “Cinematic universe”? Like mayor of Kingstown takes place in the same world as lioness as Tulsa king as Yellowstone, and now this?

[@pharma2546]

No way all these shows are in the same universe. U telling me we might see characters appearing accrocs differences like the CW Arroverse

[@ImNotPotus]

"It's your world, boss." Shawshank Redemption also part of this world.

[@okolona1]

One gangster cartel to another

[@Primenumber19]

Nice touch with the fountain pen

[@jeffhickox]

I just watched episode 1- I'm Hooked!

[@kerrysumners1333]

He has come a long way from "It ain't got no gas in it".

[@garreysellars5525]

From Australia Would love to see How do we get it. And send a copy to pour energy minister . Blackout Bowen 😮

[@michaellong6002]

Drill Baby Drill

[@cubefarmerhkc9105]

I don’t care for this show in general, but Billy Bob is really great in this show.

[@frogswurld]

OK gotta watch now.

[@davidwiechecki9205]

So much reality! It makes me smile.

[@kem1233]

i need to laugh, this is all fantasy. in real life. cartels would of done of him. i already know taylor sherdian. he gives hope to white american males. acting like they r tough guys and take down the evil mexicans? come on now i need to laugh

[@haroldkreye8770]

BBT as a badass is unconvincing.

[@somethingcleverhere]

Kind of weird to even mention coal mining, but I guess it's worth it for the name recognition.

[@robertstultz2260]

A lot of Billy Bob Thornton lines are ad-libbing that's just Billy Bob he's that good. He's an original actor!!!

[@sammiepittman3130]

I found this kind of hard to believe. That this cartel member wouldn’t be familiar with what he was offering them. Like asking questions about damages and stuff.

[@macarey55]

It's called a "Surface" lease, not a Service lease.

[@Wastelander1972]

Math: $6.4 million x 18262 (fifty years) = $116.9 billion. That’s 2.3 billion a year. It’ll take the oil company three years to recoup the cost, and that’s not assuming maintenance, labor, transportation, taxes, etc.

[@Forbes123]

Paramount needs to correct the title of this. It is called a "Surface Lease" not a "Service Lease." There are already so many inaccuracies with the show. They left out all the hours us Landmen spend in dusty courthouse chaining title, hours spent in spreadsheets and emails and calls :) haha

[@lindsayyoung9165]

No kidding! Who knew they could make an action series out of our jobs!

[@templar8787]

Yellowstone is the same way; it’s crazy pretentious. Who kills people over cattle getting out?

[@CrimsonKingOkie]

I legit might be hard of hearing, but it sounded like "surface lease" to me.

[@lindsayyoung9165]

@@CrimsonKingOkiemaybe. But Paramount labeled it “Service Lease” above.

[@CrimsonKingOkie]

@@lindsayyoung9165 Like I said: I might be hard of hearing. If I am, the only thing I could ever hear there was "surface lease" because I have never heard of a "service lease."

[@spdcrzy]

And this is why nuclear is so important. It's not about getting rid of oil as an energy source. it's about replacing it once it runs out, because it WILL run out.

[@johanstinson]

No it won't. Not in 10 000 lifetimes

[@spdcrzy]

@@johanstinson it's already happening. We don't even have enough oil to last one lifetime. If we're going to keep using oil, it can't be used for both making products AND providing energy.

[@RicasHomeySpace]

@spdcrzy we're not running out of oil. The current inventory of oil wells is nearing its depletion phase and that's why "we are running out of oil". We are just behind in putting new oil wells and that will affect all of us once supply from these depleting wells runs out.

[@spdcrzy]

@@RicasHomeySpace "we're not running out of oil" is just code for "oil is going to get a LOT more expensive".

[@patrickkenyon2326]

​@@spdcrzyYou haven't been paying attention, have you?

[@maclnmacln]

$6,400,000 million - 1 day $ 2,336,000,000 billion - 1 year $ 23,360,000,000 billion - 10 years $116,800,000,000 billion - 50 years

[@Mark-sd7fc]

What was said in Spanish just before the guy was shot?

[@jimmasterson7143]

This show was specifically written for billy bobs characteristics and mannerisms

[@JohnByrnes-x7v]

If it isn't mined or grown it doesn't exist and those are facts !

[@jeffpittman8725]

Hopefully he doesn't go the way of Game of Thrones again. Ego is Sheridans biggest enemy.

[@Aleksandarbatmansupermen]

Hahaha good fak fak😂😂

[@peterschorn1]

...and right after this the soundtrack cuts hard to Tom Lehrer's "That's Mathematics!"

[@JCNegri]

Ours is just bigger!

[@joemarchozzi5895]

Eye opener for all greenies. Unvarnished, not pretty, truthful.

[@ASIATRUCKS]

if this guy got kidnapped by the cartel in real life just sit and cry, cant make deal like this lol

[@concernedviewer2641]

SURFACE

[@JordoValentino]

I'd love to watch the show, but the Spanish is not included in the subtitles. Hard to watch a show when you miss a significant portion of the dialogue.

[@davidamos9506]

Surface Lease. Not Service Lease 👍

[@lindsayyoung9165]

SURFACE lease. Jesus…

[@lindsayyoung9165]

lol…Paramount should have consulted a few people who are actually in the industry. If they knew what landmen actually did for a living… I guess you can’t make a sexy tv action series out of 8 hours of courthouse research a day. 😂

[@dustinpomeroy8817]

That's what Billy Bob said tho if you pay attention.

[@slugcatcherjr6299]

SURFACE lease. Not service. The show is called “landman,” you want to get that right.

[@aaronmorrison7716]

He is calling it a service lease, because the cartels better understand the word service. The oil company is providing a service to the cartel.

[@slugcatcherjr6299]

@@aaronmorrison7716 he says “surface lease” about a half-dozen times though, and clearly the context is about negotiating a surface lease agreement from the owners of land with severed mineral rights. It’s the one scene from Landman that involved the actual work Landmen do, minus the fact that it’s not usually at gunpoint. Someone from Paramount just titled this wrong. There’s no such thing as a “service lease” in this context.

[@the_real_ch3]

Is a service lease like a surface lease?

[@ricks7093]

Big oil is just like the rail road. They will get what they want!

[@opeth1845]

I take it the largest industry is Arms.