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Tommy smiling at table during Landman’s “The Pirate Dinner”.<\/p>\n Tommy smiling at table during Landman’s “The Pirate Dinner”.<\/p>\n
Though the <\/strong>Landman<\/strong> story below does focus on a phone conversation between Tommy and his father T.L. in \u201cThe Pirate Dinner\u201d, there are no actual plot spoilers discussed, so it\u2019s safe to keep reading even if you haven\u2019t yet streamed the ep via <\/strong>Paramount+ subscription<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Taylor Sheridan is the kind of TV creator who sets his various characters up as mouthpieces for a litany of his own viewpoints. He\u2019s hardly alone in that respect, but he is one of relatively few creatives who maintains a sole writing credit across multiple series, so there\u2019s little doubt where the opinionated comments come from. Pop culture usually doesn\u2019t inspire such discussions amongst the blue-collar characters, but Landman\u2019s latest episode surprisingly lobbed a shot at Whoopi Goldberg and the women of The View, and I can’t wait for their responses.<\/p>\n In the middle of Season 2\u2019s fifth installment, \u201cThe Pirate Dinner,\u201d Billy Bob Thornton\u2019s Tommy is in the midst of a hectic day and a long drive when Sam Elliott\u2019s T.L. calls him up to complain about being bored, not to mention being locked outside of the house. (It\u2019s hard to tell where T.L.\u2019s arc is going<\/a>, and this scene didn\u2019t exactly lay out a wealth of potential futures, beyond possibly doing voiceover work for Tommy\u2019s neighbor.)<\/p>\n Tommy\u2019s advice points to The View as a source of semi-ironic daytime amusement, but T.L. somehow has no knowledge of a series that\u2019s been on the air in a near-daily capacity since 1997. Here\u2019s how their convo went down:<\/p>\n Strangely not the most insulting barb that Taylor Sheridan is capable of, and it’s nowhere near as pointedly blunt as so many other comments made by Billy Bob Thornton’s Tommy. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an obvious knock against the that T.L. has remained blind to the show’s Hot Topics for nearly three decades, and it’s not like Tommy is saying The View is worth watching for its genius insights and personalities. He’s more or less calling it a wreck that one can’t help but stare at. So not complimentary in the slightest.<\/p>\n As a viewer, it\u2019s both interesting and amusing to see Tommy\u2019s casual criticism of The View\u2019s female hosts falling back into the same repeated behavior patterns and topics, since it\u2019s in a show that has itself been criticized by critics and fans themselves about how its female characters are depicted, <\/a>from Angela to Ainsley to Rebecca and beyond.<\/p>\n Even if Taylor Sheridan himself absolutely adores The View, I’d have still expected him to write Tommy as if he thought the talk show was a waste of time. Especially since Tommy doesn’t seem to ever want to get into any political arguments with anyone, you’d think he’d tire of the show’s subject matter immediately. But just as there are plenty of different ways to fart in church, The View doesn’t always fall back on the same old Washington D.C. talking points.<\/p>\n Given the mildly genial shot taken by Billy Bob Thornton’s character, I’m interested to see, first, whether or not any of the women are aware of what Landman is. (Just kidding: Thornton appeared on the show in 2024 to promote the streaming western’s first season.) More sincerely, I can’t wait to see whether Whoopi & Co. choose to take offense and strike back out, or if all involved will view it as the light-hearted insult it came across as.<\/p>\n That said, CBS News’ newest boss Bari Weiss has supposedly held a grudge against The View’s team after she was passed over to fill a vacated spot at the table years ago, and she’s rumored to be starting up a direct daytime competitor for CBS’s daytime fare.<\/a> Given when Landman filmed its Season 2 episodes, however, it doesn’t appear as if Tommy’s comments were directly sparked by Paramount’s post-merger leadership regime.<\/p>\n Check out the trailer for Episode 6 below!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Will Landman next call out other daytime staples like the recently concluded The Kitchen, or The Price Is Right? Find out as the rest of Season 2 plays out every Sunday on Paramount+, and take comfort in Season 3 already being confirmed<\/a>, with production hopefully starting earlier enough for episodes to still debut during the 2026 TV schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy smiling at table during Landman’s “The Pirate Dinner”. 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