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Warning: SPOILERS For Landman Season 2’s Premiere – “Death and a Sunset”Tommy’s life as a landman-turned-corporate executive is challenging enough, but he gets no relief when he comes home because of his ex-wife, Angela (Ali Larter), and teenage daughter, Ainsley (Michelle Randolph).

Landman is one of the biggest hit series on Paramount+, and the Texas oil drama is Taylor Sheridan’s biggest hit since Yellowstone. Sheridan writes every episode of Landman, just as he penned Yellowstone, and he ported a pair of the Duttons’ tropes to the Norris family of Midland, Texas.

Landman Replaced Yellowstone’s Disastrous Dutton Family Dinners

Landman season 2’s premiere saw Angela attempt to serve a family dinner to Tommy, Ainsley, and Cooper Norris (Jacob Lofland), as well as Tommy’s house mates, Nathan (Colm Feore) and Dale Bradley (James Jordan). Angela proudly prepared cacio e pepe with $2400 of shaved truffles for her skeptical dinner party.

Tommy ruins Angela’s dinner by snidely discussing her “time of the month” and “cycle” determining Angela’s mood swings to Dale, all within earshot of his ex-wife’s. This sets Angela off, and her violent tantrum sends everyone scattering to safety as she tears the dinner table apart and hurls food against the walls until Tommy manages to diffuse her anger.

Invariably, the volatile Beth would find a way to provoke someone at the table, whether it’s her adopted brother, Jamie Dutton (Wes Bentley), or Summer Higgins (Piper Perabo), the activist who was sleeping with her father, John Dutton (Kevin Costner). Every Dutton dinner Beth attended saw her storm out after a sea of expletives, leaving John sulking and resigned.

Landman’s Brother & Sister Hatred Replaced Beth & Jamie Dutton’s Yellowstone Feud

Taylor Sheridan also adapted another of his Yellowstone Dutton tropes to Landman: Cooper and Ainsley hating each other is reminiscent of the blood feud between Beth and Jamie Dutton. Like the Duttons, there is animosity between the Cooper siblings that looks like genuine hatred,

Unlike Beth and Jamie, however, Landman has yet to explain what the root cause of Ainsley and Cooper’s dysfunction is. Yellowstone revealed that, as teenagers, Jamie lied to a pregnant Beth who turned to him for help. Beth is unable to have children is directly Jamie’s fault.

Regardless of why Cooper and Ainsley hate each other, it’s hard to imagine Taylor Sheridan would have the Norris kids brawl until one of them is sent to the Train Station.

Landman is set a thousand miles from the Duttons’ former Montana ranch, but Midland, Texas is starting to feel a lot more like Yellowstone.