The other day, I staged a small film festival for myself that included The Last Picture Show (1971), Terms of Endearment (1983), and selected episodes of the 2006 TV series Friday Night Lights. I didn’t revisit these Texan stories entirely on a whim. I had been watching Landman, the Permian Basin–set series streaming on Paramount+, and with each passing episode, I was becoming more and more perplexed. What in the world was going on with the show’s female characters? With all the low-cut tops, high-cut shorts, and dumb-blonde dialogue, I felt like I was watching a racy reboot of a T & A show. I kept waiting for the late Farrah Fawcett to make a cameo.This was not what I’d expected. Landman is based on…
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