John Powers

As Martian tries to juggle his romantic passion and his sworn duty, the show offers a heightened version of something universal. The gap between our public selves that act in the world and who we feel we really are inside. For all their differences, Black Doves and the agency address the same fundamental questions. Can you be a spy and still keep your humanity?

As Martian tries to juggle his romantic passion and his sworn duty, the show offers a heightened version of something universal. The gap between our public selves that act in the world and who we feel we really are inside. For all their differences, Black Doves and the agency address the same fundamental questions. Can you be a spy and still keep your humanity?

As Martian tries to juggle his romantic passion and his sworn duty, the show offers a heightened version of something universal. The gap between our public selves that act in the world and who we feel we really are inside. For all their differences, Black Doves and the agency address the same fundamental questions. Can you be a spy and still keep your humanity?

At what point does your mask become your actual face? And at what point, if any, do you start saying no?

At what point does your mask become your actual face? And at what point, if any, do you start saying no?

At what point does your mask become your actual face? And at what point, if any, do you start saying no?

America, it's often said, is a nation of addicts. We're addicted to sugar, to sports, to drugs, legal and illegal, and, of course, to our many screens. Yet our deepest, most powerful, and most pervasive addiction is to oil, the black gold that keeps our society going.

America, it's often said, is a nation of addicts. We're addicted to sugar, to sports, to drugs, legal and illegal, and, of course, to our many screens. Yet our deepest, most powerful, and most pervasive addiction is to oil, the black gold that keeps our society going.

America, it's often said, is a nation of addicts. We're addicted to sugar, to sports, to drugs, legal and illegal, and, of course, to our many screens. Yet our deepest, most powerful, and most pervasive addiction is to oil, the black gold that keeps our society going.

This addiction serves as the backdrop to Landman, a new Paramount Plus series from Taylor Sheridan, best known for creating Yellowstone, and Christian Wallace, whose hit podcast Boomtown served as a loose basis for the series.

This addiction serves as the backdrop to Landman, a new Paramount Plus series from Taylor Sheridan, best known for creating Yellowstone, and Christian Wallace, whose hit podcast Boomtown served as a loose basis for the series.

This addiction serves as the backdrop to Landman, a new Paramount Plus series from Taylor Sheridan, best known for creating Yellowstone, and Christian Wallace, whose hit podcast Boomtown served as a loose basis for the series.

Set in the petroleum-rich Permian Basin around Midland, Texas, where the Bush family once went to get rich, this drama centers on an oil company fixer who spends his time solving crises and dealing with his family, who seem to have parachuted into West Texas from a nighttime soap. Billy Bob Thornton stars as Tommy Norris, a once-flush oil man who went broke.

Set in the petroleum-rich Permian Basin around Midland, Texas, where the Bush family once went to get rich, this drama centers on an oil company fixer who spends his time solving crises and dealing with his family, who seem to have parachuted into West Texas from a nighttime soap. Billy Bob Thornton stars as Tommy Norris, a once-flush oil man who went broke.

Set in the petroleum-rich Permian Basin around Midland, Texas, where the Bush family once went to get rich, this drama centers on an oil company fixer who spends his time solving crises and dealing with his family, who seem to have parachuted into West Texas from a nighttime soap. Billy Bob Thornton stars as Tommy Norris, a once-flush oil man who went broke.

He now works as a so-called landman for a billionaire, Monty Miller, played by John Hamm in his handsome reptile mode. Tommy's job includes overseeing roughnecks, making sure the wells pump enough, fending off the local drug cartel, and handling assorted calamities, like when one of his company's jets gets rammed by an oil truck. Meanwhile, he's got family issues.

He now works as a so-called landman for a billionaire, Monty Miller, played by John Hamm in his handsome reptile mode. Tommy's job includes overseeing roughnecks, making sure the wells pump enough, fending off the local drug cartel, and handling assorted calamities, like when one of his company's jets gets rammed by an oil truck. Meanwhile, he's got family issues.

He now works as a so-called landman for a billionaire, Monty Miller, played by John Hamm in his handsome reptile mode. Tommy's job includes overseeing roughnecks, making sure the wells pump enough, fending off the local drug cartel, and handling assorted calamities, like when one of his company's jets gets rammed by an oil truck. Meanwhile, he's got family issues.

Even as his college-age son has decided to work for him as a roughneck, he joins a Latino crew handpicked by his dad. He's being visited by his 17-year-old daughter, whose idea of higher learning is sleeping with a star quarterback. Yes, we're in the Texas of Friday Night Lights.

Even as his college-age son has decided to work for him as a roughneck, he joins a Latino crew handpicked by his dad. He's being visited by his 17-year-old daughter, whose idea of higher learning is sleeping with a star quarterback. Yes, we're in the Texas of Friday Night Lights.