Before the end of the second season, Landman eventually picked up speed with Billy Bob ThorntonTommy is fired, and Ainsley argues about pronouns before cheating on her roommate.
During the Sunday, January 11 episode of the hit Paramount+ series, Tommy joined Cami (Demi Moore), Chicken (Andy Garcia), Rebecca (Kayla Wallace) and more M-Tex Oil co-workers on a trip to see Charlie (Guy Burnet) as his team headed toward drilling the well. Like the company he celebrated the potential profitCami sat Tommy down to fire him for not supporting her decision.
“The president of my company can’t be against what built it,” Cami told Tommy about risk-taking. “I’m saying you’re fired.”
The rest of the Norris family had a better day with Tommy TL’s father (Sam Elliott) enjoying more water therapy with stripper-turned-physiotherapist Cheyenne (Francesca Xuereb). Despite their significant age difference, TL and Cheyenne stripped in front of each other and shared a heart-to-heart by the pool.
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As for Angela (Ali Larter) and Ainsley (Michelle Randolph), her day started out rough with Angela heartbroken because her daughter went to college for a week for a cheerleading program. Ainsley had to sleep in the dorms, according to university policy, but quickly became dissatisfied with her roommate Paigyn, who identified as non-binary.
“I always wondered why they/them? Because there’s only one and those are plural pronouns,” Ainsley asked. “I never really got the pronoun joke. My name is Ainsley and I really can’t think of a reason why you would address me in the third person in a conversation I’m in. So if you do, I’m probably not there so I wouldn’t really know what pronouns you’re using anyway. Why would it matter?”
The tension worsened as Paigyn enforced roommate roles that only included vegan snacks, lights off when they meditated, no air freshener despite owning a ferret, and no “trigger” words like penetrate.
“It hints at the patriarchal power of the phallus. The penis,” Paigyn said before Ainsley agreed that “they sure can be triggers,” adding: “I went out with a guy once and his (penis) was like a third forearm. I used to spit on it and stroke it and pretend I passed out. Because there was no way I was going to get out of that tree inside me.”
Ainsley they finally realized their situation he didn’t fit in well and tried to be reassigned to a new dorm. The admissions counselor, the one who previously interviewed Ainsley for her college acceptance program, wasn’t excited about the idea and was even less willing to help after the student started misreading her roommate.
“She wants our room to be a safe space. But she has decided what is safe,” Ainsley explained. “I don’t care what someone’s pronouns are. But using a plural pronoun for a person is kind of wrong (according to) the English language. So she’s telling me, they’re telling me what to call them and they’re telling me there’s no music and all the things they need to be comfortable. But they’re not asking me what I need to be comfortable.”
Angela stepped in to address the situation, which resulted in Ainsley getting permission to live off campus. Her mom even rented her a luxury suite for the week and threw a pool party at the hotel for the entire cheerleading squad, probably because Tommy didn’t tell her that he no longer had a job.
Exaggerated stories are a staple Taylor Sheridanthe success of the Paramount+ program. Ahead of Sunday’s episode, Randolph, 28, reflected on getting “a mix of feminist negativity” and praise for her characters in Sheridan. 1923 i Landman.
“It’s all of the above. I’ve had to stop being defensive about my character because when you spend so much time in someone else’s headspace, you start to understand their logic,” she told Interview magazine last month. “For Ainsley (in Landman), I couldn’t be more different than her, but I also adore her. I like to say that she’s not stupid, she just has limited life experience and we’re seeing her in her formative years.”
Randolph appreciated the challenge, adding, “What a blessing to play a character that’s constantly evolving. It’s challenged me in so many ways—what’s on the page is so different than what you see on screen. I’ve tried to add how genuine and sincere she is so that there are more redeeming qualities.”
New episodes of Landman premieres Sundays on Paramount+.