Final week, it felt like everybody was speaking about *that one scene* in Landman on Paramount+, the one with Billy Bob Thornton’s Tommy Norris getting an earful from his on-screen daughter about her teenage sexcapades. This week, an all-new Landman clip goes viral — because the sequence additionally stays one of many most-viewed TV exhibits on all of streaming, in accordance with the most recent Prime 10 chart from Reelgood.
On this new scene, Thornton’s Norris goes off on what he sees as misconceptions about clear vitality. “Please, Mr. Oilman, inform me how the wind is dangerous for the setting?” snipes a lawyer performed by Kayla Wallace at Norris. They’re speaking about wind generators through the dialog, which you’ll watch right here. In response, Norris drawls: “You’ve any thought how a lot diesel should burn to combine that a lot concrete or make that metal and haul this s–t out right here and put it along with a 450-foot crane? You need to guess how a lot oil it takes to lubricate that f—ing factor? Or winterize it? In its 20-year lifespan, it gained’t offset the carbon footprint of constructing it. And don’t get me began on photo voltaic panels and the lithium in your tesla battery.”
Say what you’ll about Taylor Sheridan, the co-creator of Landman in addition to two different Paramount+ sequence which are among the many most-watched TV exhibits on streaming proper now. However the man has a successful formulation, and Paramount’s streamer is milking it for all it’s value. To point out you what I imply, right here’s Reelgood’s newest rating of the most popular TV exhibits (for the 7-day interval that ended on Nov. 27):
- Landman (Paramount+)
- Yellowstone (The Paramount Community)
- A Man on the Inside (Netflix)
- Silo (Apple TV+)
- The Day of the Jackal (Peacock)
- Dune: Prophecy (HBO/Max)
- Cross (Prime Video)
- Lioness (Paramount+)
- Say Nothing (FX/Hulu)
- Arcane (Netflix)
Are exhibits like Sheridan’s Landman, Yellowstone, or Lioness, which comprise 30% of the Prime 10 record you see above, ever going to wind up on the rankings of the most effective TV exhibits of all time? There’s not an opportunity in hell of that ever taking place, clearly, however that’s as a result of exhibits like Landman — wherein Thornton performs a disaster supervisor for Massive Oil — are extra mainstream delights. Purple meat for the lots. The type of TV exhibits that attract viewers by the hundreds of thousands however that skilled critics flip up their noses at.
To arrange that rating above, by the way in which, Reelgood displays 20 million viewing selections every month throughout each streaming platform within the US, from Apple TV+ to Max, Peacock, Disney+, Hulu, Netflix, Prime Video, and Paramount+. That makes its rating all the time an attention-grabbing snapshot, to say the least, provided that it encompasses so many platforms and thus gives a sign of what’s sizzling from throughout the streaming world.
This may also be the primary time I’ve ever seen the #1 and #2 exhibits on the week’s record stemming from the identical creator — a TV hitmaker whose sequence have a tendency towards a celebration of masculinity, of rugged individualism, threatened industries and methods of life, and household legacies beneath some type of menace.
In addition to Yellowstone, in the meantime, different hit sequence dominating the rating this week embody Peacock’s new spy drama The Day of the Jackal, which is coming again for one more season (try our interview with star Eddie Redmayne right here). Netflix’s A Man on the Inside, based mostly on an Oscar-nominated documentary, and FX’s new drama Say Nothing (concerning the period of The Troubles in Eire) are each drawing reward for being a number of the most alternately pleasant and well-written TV exhibits you’ll discover on any streamer in the intervening time.
