This submit accommodates spoilers for “Landman.”
“Landman” season 2 wrapped up as everybody anticipated it to: with a heck of a number of drama. After all, Billy Bob Thornton’s Tommy Norris got here out on high as soon as once more, beginning his personal oil firm and appointing his son, Cooper (Jacob Lofland), as President. Meaning we’ll be seeing an entire new Cooper in season 3, and in keeping with Lofland, that requires him to do extra analysis on the oil trade forward of capturing.
If there’s one factor Taylor Sheridan loves greater than the Western life-style, it is dynasties. The Dutton household tree on “Yellowstone” supplied the idea for a sequence of reveals that is set to proceed with a number of new melodramas, together with the upcoming spin-off “The Madison.” Someway, even with the ever-expanding “Yellowstone”-verse to take care of, Sheridan can also be discovering time to pen an entire slate of different sequence, all of which have been profitable. The largest of those would possibly simply be “Landman,” which turned the primary Paramount+ unique of all time in 2025.
Naturally, then, anticipation for season 3 is about as excessive as it could possibly get, and with capturing set to begin round Might of 2026, we must be on observe for a November launch to match the earlier two seasons’ debuts. When the brand new episodes do arrive, nonetheless, we’ll be seeing a special Cooper. In a latest interview, Lofland revealed that he feels as if the character is shifting nearer to his personal persona because the present goes on and Cooper establishes himself within the oil trade.
Cooper Norris is a landman now, and Jacob Lofland is in analysis mode
“Landman” is an oil drama impressed by a podcast that hardcore followers of the present want to take a look at. As such, the precise mechanics and logistics of the oil trade are remarkably correct regardless of the melodrama that characterizes the remainder of the sequence. In season 1, these logistics are partly explored via faculty dropout Cooper Norris, who begins by working as a roughneck for M-Tex Oil. He then units out to construct his personal oil firm by making a dodgy take care of Andy Garcia’s cartel boss, Danny “Gallino” Morrell. By the top of season 2, nonetheless, Tommy Norris kinds an entire new oil firm and appoints Cooper as its president, lastly making him an actual Landman.
As such, season 3 will showcase a a lot completely different Cooper — one which, in keeping with Jacob Lofland, will really be rather more just like the actor himself. Chatting with The Hollywood Reporter, revealed that he can be doing “much more analysis” going into season 3. “I am actually going to have to determine the terminology and internal workings,” mentioned the 28-year-old actor, who’s 5 years older than Cooper himself. “I would love that understanding going into it. I’ll in all probability dedicate a bit of extra time to figuring that out. Being a bit of older than Cooper, I’ve hopefully gotten to the purpose the place I do not make as many errors.”
Finally, Lofland feels Cooper might slowly transfer nearer to embodying the actor’s personal persona. “Hopefully, [the character] simply encroaches nearer to who I’m at the moment,” he added, “and ultimately we are going to simply be the identical particular person. We’re actual near it now.”
Jacob Lofland is happy for extra household scenes
There’s nonetheless so much we do not find out about “Landman” season 3, together with the involvement of Demi Moore’s Cami Miller. What we do know is that Billy Bob Thornton is certainly not leaving “Landman,” and it additionally appears pretty sure that, with the Norris household all in enterprise collectively, we’ll be seeing extra of Cooper Norris interacting together with his mom, Angela Norris (Ali Larter), and sister, Ainsley Norris (Michelle Randolph). To date, a lot of the character’s story has revolved round his work within the oil fields and his relationship with Ariana Medina (Paulina Chávez). Now, nonetheless, he is absolutely dedicated to the Norris clan.
Requested about working nearer with Larter and Randolph particularly, Lofland mentioned he was “100%” excited on the prospect, including, “It is such a special dynamic from all the pieces Cooper is used to on the present if you throw him in with Angela and Ainsley. It is night time and day within the really feel of the set and chemistry. I like it.” The actor highlighted a second from season 2 the place all three actors shared a scene for the primary time. “The dynamics are hilarious,” he mentioned, “with Ainsley giving Cooper all of the crap she will be able to, and Angela within the center making an attempt to average. It is such a sibling second. I really like working with these two.”
All of that ought to make season 3 of “Landman” sufficiently completely different from the earlier two seasons, guaranteeing the present stays contemporary and maintains its spectacular viewership shifting ahead. Season 3 is but to begin capturing however is ready to get underway quickly, forward of a probable November launch.
