It’s Monday. That means it’s time to mine Landman’s latest episode for North Texas Easter eggs. The West Texas-set oil rig drama, co-created by Taylor Sheridan, has shot across Dallas-Fort Worth. The script, accordingly, reflects the milieu.
Here are notable D-FW references in the second episode of Landman’s season two.
A shout-out to local journalism
Cami Miller (Demi Moore) stares pensively at the lush vista surrounding her home. After the death of her husband, Monty, in the first season, she is now the head honcho of M-Tex Oil and facing pressures in the role.
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“Do you have any interest, ma’am?” her assistant asks, holding a stack of papers from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
“Oh, I-I read the news on my computer,” Cami declines.
One real restaurant, one fake restaurant
Landman protagonist Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) picks his son, Cooper (Jacob Lofland), up in the parking lot of a fictional restaurant Patch Cafe.
The restaurant’s set is located at 9840 Camp Bowie West Blvd., a site eyed for a brick-and-mortar location of Dayne’s Craft Barbecue before a production crew for Sheridan project took over the address. (Dayne’s ended up opening a joint in Aledo instead.)
“You going through Lubbock or Snyder?” Cooper asks his father, as he opens the car door. “Go up through Snyder. I need to show you something.”
The father and son drive off, with Margie’s Italian Gardens visible behind them. That Fort Worth restaurant has been around since the 1950s.
Casket shopping at a funeral home
Tommy and Cooper walk into a building with asign that reads “Watson-Malloy Funeral Home” to look at caskets. In June, the show’s production was spotted near a D-FW funeral home in Springtown, about 26 miles northwest of Fort Worth.
A rumble at a retirement center
Ainsley (Michelle Randolph) and Angela (Ali Larter), Tommy’s daughter and ex-wife respectively, end up in handcuffs after a buddy comedy-esque altercation with health inspectors at a retirement center.
The scene was filmed at the Hilltop Park Rehabilitation and Care Center in Weatherford.
Landman episodes stream Sundays on Paramount+.
Follow along with The Dallas Morning News for more references and inclusions of North Texas spots.
With eight episodes left to drop, there’s still time for another cameo from Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
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