A four-minute scene turns Landman into a power thriller

Landman, the series based on a podcast about oil, follows landman Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) and has often been summed up as a show about oil. The Season 2 finale, "Handsome Touched Me," reframes that description: the series is about power and what people will do to achieve it.

A four-minute sequence between Tommy and Cami Miller (Demi Moore) crystallizes that shift. Cami has been wrestling with whether to pull the trigger on an offshore drilling rig. While dining at a bar, a handsome stranger approaches her and tries to wipe her face, and she breaks down in the bathroom.

The encounter — less about the gesture than the entitlement behind it — helps push Cami to make a choice she can control: she orders the rig opened, using the company as a means to exert her own power. The dynamic between Tommy and Cami hardens during their argument, when Tommy suggests selling her company would give her a life of success and she replies, "I want success.

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