{"id":2223206,"date":"2026-01-05T19:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2223206"},"modified":"2026-01-05T19:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:01:27","slug":"landman-season-2-episode-8-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/landman-season-2-episode-8-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Landman’ Season 2 Episode 8 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The following story contains spoilers for Landman<\/em> season 2, episode 8, “Handsome Touched Me.” <\/strong><\/p>\n

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HOW MUCH ARE<\/strong> you willing to lose before you win? That seems to be the question facing the women of Landman <\/em>in this episode. And it\u2019s weighing on them heavily. They\u2019re looking intensely at what\u2019s in front of them\u2014the cost-benefit analysis calculating before their very eyes. And that intensity comes off, at least to Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton), a little scary.<\/p>\n

Or as he mutters to himself after passing a silent but screamingly angry Lawyer Rebecca (Kayla Wallace), \u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s in the water these fucking women are drinking. I\u2019m scared to go home tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It turns out he has no reason to worry. But Rebecca, now she\u2019s worrying about real stuff, life stuff, having just been told off by her geologist hunk Charlie (Guy Burnet<\/a>) once he doesn\u2019t bend to her will.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a lonely woman you\u2019re going to be,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Wow\u2014not something you say to a woman, let alone your coworker who you also happen to be banging. Even if it is true, and she, so cold and severe up to this point, admits she thinks it is true. It\u2019s her most vulnerable moment to date, actress Kayla Wallace\u2019s stony face turning to emotional putty.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m mad too, honey, but goddamn,\u201d Tommy says by way of cheering her up, sort of.<\/p>\n

Rebecca is sulking on the company Gulfstream, as one does, because Charlie\u2019s words hurt. But she still has plenty of time to prove him wrong. She\u2019s already proven to be much more than the tightly wound walking corporate mandate we made her out to be. She can get drunk on a private jet and have messy sex with a scientist! Who knows what else she\u2019s capable of? With any luck, she (and Wallace) will show us in due time.<\/p>\n

Stream Landman <\/em>here<\/a><\/p>\n

The Audacity of Touching Demi Moore<\/h2>\n
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Who else is feeling lonely and pissed and in desperate need of a win? Cami (Demi Moore). She looks like she\u2019s winning, of course, in a coat that could be more expensive than my annual income. But her friends won\u2019t call her back\u2014she guesses they don\u2019t want a rich widow around their husbands. So she\u2019s eating lunch (okay, drinking) by herself at a fancy restaurant bar when a \u201cvery handsome\u201d (I would say rich-looking, but this is her story) man sidles up next to her. And touches her face. <\/p>\n

This sends Cami into a makeup-smearing tailspin in the bathroom worthy of another (Oscar-nominated) Demi Moore performance in The Substance<\/em>. It\u2019s a full-on meltdown. But we don\u2019t know why. It was a violation of physical boundaries with a stranger, but a fairly minor one. Was it the sheer audacity of hitting on her? Or the unsolicited reminder that she\u2019s alone, a \u201crich widow\u201d her rich female friends are scared of? Or that, underneath it all, despite having more than $200 million in assets in a trust that she couldn\u2019t possibly spend in this lifetime, she wants more? <\/p>\n

(Whatever is driving Cami mad, Moore is doing some of the finest acting of her career on Paramount freaking Plus. Emmys, are you watching?!)<\/p>\n

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So Cami asserts her power in a meeting with Tommy, Rebecca, and Handsome Geologist Who Tells Off Rebecca. The geologist is ostensibly here to talk Cami down from the $400 million drill to appease the insurance company. Because, well, there\u2019s only a 10 percent chance that they\u2019ll actually find the gas they\u2019re trying to drill into. M-Tex Oil has a 90 percent chance of losing $400 million\u2014at which point litigation with the insurance company will look rosy. <\/p>\n

But Handsome Geologist does his whole geology thing, rhapsodizing about the \u201ctrillions\u201d that lie below the surface of the ocean, waiting for them, if they can find it.<\/p>\n

So she makes her decision: Drill, baby, drill! She won\u2019t go down as just the rich widow. She\u2019s willing to make gambles even her ex-husband Monty (remember when Jon Hamm<\/a> was on this show?) wouldn\u2019t touch. When Tommy offers that she could just sell and sit by the pool with cabana boys all day, she sets him straight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want cabana boys,\u201d Cami says. \u201cI want success. Get that for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Tommy is bummed <\/em>to hear this pep talk. Because it means he\u2019s almost certainly out of a job once M-Tex goes under. So he goes behind his boss\u2019s back and straight to el jefe<\/em>, quite literally: venture capitalist and cartel leader Gallino (Andy Garcia), hoping that once he tells him the loan to M-Tex will likely never be paid back, Gallino will cancel the funding.<\/p>\n

But Gallino won\u2019t back out on his deal to Cami, he tells Tommy. More to the point, the loan is guaranteed by royalties that will pay out regardless. If Cami goes down, she\u2019ll go down alone. But maybe she won\u2019t! Either way, Tommy correctly identifies the instinct driving her to make a seemingly reckless business decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s called wildcatting,\u201d Tommy explains. \u201cDrilling on a hunch. Dreaming it out of the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Let It Ride\u2019<\/h2>\n
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Tommy doesn\u2019t have reason to worry, as I said. Because his woman, the endlessly optimistic Angela (Ali Larter), stays winning no matter what. In her volunteer work at the retirement center (how did this job start, anyway?), she and daughter Ainsley round up the seniors and their nurse to hit the casino. They come in tow with $10,000 in cash from none other than Tommy, who\u2019s promised \u201cSaturday sex\u201d in return.<\/p>\n

Angela finds time on the road to give the nurse, Margaret (Deidra Shanell), a makeover. She smudges on eyeliner and cuts up the hospital scrubs into a crop top out of a Y2K-era Britney Music video: Voila, Margaret is now Hot Nurse (and her husband is more than appreciative when she gets home).<\/p>\n

Once at the casino, led to the roulette table where the male seniors are quickly losing their money, Angela doesn\u2019t sweat. She bets it all on black and loses. Then loses again. And again. <\/p>\n

\u201cLet it ride,\u201d she says, over and over. \u201cLet it ride.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then she wins. And wins again, and again. And suddenly that $10,000 from Tommy becomes over $300,000 in cash that she brings home and plunks on the table, a fortune just sitting there as she makes hot dogs for dinner for everyone. Tommy looks very, very pleased. Maybe not as pleased as T.L. (Sam Elliott) who, thanks to Tommy\u2019s imaginative scheming, is enjoying physical therapy for his ailing body, provided in the pool by a local stripper. But still very pleased.<\/p>\n

Notes from the Patch<\/h2>\n
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