Landman Season 2 Episode 5 joke is going viral: Here's what Tommy said about The View

Landman is an oil industry drama created by Taylor Sheridan. It streams on Paramount+.

Season 2 came out on November 16, 2025. It quickly became one of Paramount+’s most-watched shows. The premiere alone pulled in 9.2 million views in 48 hours. Billy Bob Thornton is back as Tommy Norris, the guy who is somehow always in the middle of every disaster in the wild world of West Texas oil.

You have got roughnecks fighting for scraps, billionaires throwing money around, and the ugly stew of climate, money, and power. The cast includes Demi Moore, Andy Garcia, Ali Larter, Sam Elliott, and Jacob Lofland, all bringing the heat. New episodes keep dropping on Sundays.

Now, Landman Season 2 Episode 5, The Pirate Dinner, landed on December 14, 2025, and the internet exploded, but not for any of the usual reasons. The whole thing blew up over a random phone call between Tommy and his dad, T.L. (Sam Elliott). Out of nowhere, they throw shade at ABC’s The View.

And that one-liner was an instant hit. Was Sheridan just being snarky, or was he dropping some not-so-subtle political bomb? He has built a reputation for sneaking in hot takes under all that cowboy grit, so of course, people are dissecting every syllable.

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Landman Season 2 Episode 5 joke about The View

The viral moment happened as T.L. gets locked out of the house, so he rings up Tommy, probably out of boredom more than anything. He asks Tommy what he should do, and Tommy suggests watching TV. He mentions daytime talk shows. He says T.L. could watch The View. T.L. says he does not know what The View is. That is when Tommy makes the viral comment.

“A bunch of pissed-off millionaires b—-ing about how much they hate millionaires and Trump and men and you and me and everybody else they got a bee up their a– about. It’s pretty funny.”

T.L.’s face is totally deadpan, as he says:

“Don’t sound funny.”

Tommy can’t help himself; he doubles down:

“Well, it ain’t joke funny, it’s like ‘fart in church’ funny, you know what I mean?”

T.L. still isn’t buying it, so Tommy goes:

“Well, it depends on your proximity to the fart.”

That whole back-and-forth pure Tommy: blunt, a little gross, totally sharp, and somehow he makes it work.

Fox News reportedly tried to get a comment from ABC and The View, but they have not gotten any so far. Meanwhile, entertainment outlets like Variety went all-in on the story, pointing out that Landman doesn’t usually dip its toes into real-life pop culture, so this was a big deal.

The line hit home for fans who have been watching Sheridan’s work, since his shows always throw shade at class struggles, toxic masculinity, and political polarization in modern America.

The Cinema Group’s recap zeroed in on that exchange, calling it one of the “most unexpectedly viral moments,” which checks out. They described it as

“... a character tell—a blunt, Sheridan-written snapshot of how these men see media, power, and resentment.”

The moment hits because Landman refuses to baby you or tidy up the mess. It tosses the line out there, without handholding, and just keeps moving. If you have watched Sheridan’s work before, you know this is right in Tommy’s wheelhouse: he is that blue-collar fixer type, rubbing elbows with the bigwigs but maintaining skepticism toward coastal cultural institutions.

And then, to stir the pot even more, Billy Bob Thornton told the Wall Street Journal that Taylor Sheridan uses Tommy as his mouthpiece. Thornton said:

“Taylor uses me in this show to say a lot of things that he wants to say. And I’m proud of that. Tommy’s monologues are absolutely how Taylor talks. We do have a slightly different manner in real life. I’m a little more laid back even in my rants than Taylor is. When he goes off, he’s big and blustery. If you compared it to drugs, Taylor is on coke and I’m on, I don’t know, mescaline.”

Interestingly, Billy Bob Thornton actually showed up on The View back in November 2024 to promote Landman’s first season. He was smooth and won over the hosts and crowd. Fast forward to Season 2, and now there’s this zinger where Tommy takes a jab at the very same show.

There has not been an official comment about the joke from Taylor Sheridan or anyone from the Landman crew. So you are left to read into it however you want.

Sheridan’s TV kingdom is a love letter to hard-headed people who don’t tolerate nonsense. He is obsessed with gritty, blue-collar individuals, always conflicting with the shiny suits and the so-called “progress.” Yellowstone, 1923, Landman, it’s always about these stubborn lone wolves, confronting people in power.

Tommy Norris is straight out of that mold. He lives in the gray, has zero patience for rich guys even when he works with them, and drops truth bombs that hit home for anyone sick to death of all that fake political posturing.