What to Watch After Landman: 10 Shows to Stream While Waiting for Season 3

Waiting for Landman Season 3 creates a very specific problem. A normal crime drama is not enough. A normal Western is not enough. A normal family soap is not enough.

The appeal of Landman is the combination: oil money, family damage, corporate risk, blue-collar danger, old men with too much history, young people making expensive mistakes, and Taylor Sheridan's taste for characters who talk like every conversation might become a threat.

So the best shows to watch after Landman are not just shows about Texas. They are shows about power under pressure.

Image: Landman season 2, episode 10. Photo credit: Emerson Miller/Paramount+ via Paramount Press Express.

How this list was chosen

This is not a generic "popular dramas" list. The closest Landman replacements need at least two of the following:

• A business or institution that behaves like a dangerous machine.
• A family or loyalty structure that makes every decision personal.
• A rural, Western, frontier, or regional identity that shapes the story.
• A lead character who is competent, damaged, funny, and hard to replace.
• A world where money, land, law, and violence overlap.

That is why some obvious prestige dramas are not here. A show can be excellent and still not feel like Landman. The goal is not to recommend the "best" shows in general. The goal is to answer the viewer who just finished Season 2 and wants that same mix of grit, dealmaking, danger, and people making bad decisions under big skies.

Quick picks

If you only want the fastest answer, use this:

Image: Official Landman trailer thumbnail, Paramount+.

1. Yellowstone

Start here if you want the clearest Taylor Sheridan bridge.

Yellowstone is not about oil. It is about land, family, ownership, loyalty, and the violence that follows when a private empire believes it has the right to survive at any cost. TVLine describes it as the Sheridan show that gave him the freedom to create projects like Landman, and that is the right way to think about it.

If Landman is about barrels, leases, and rigs, Yellowstone is about cattle, borders, and inheritance. The business is different. The emotional engine is similar.

Best for: viewers who like family empires, morally compromised patriarchs, and modern Western power politics.

Why it works after Landman: Yellowstone makes land feel like a living balance sheet. Every field, river, fence, and family argument is tied to ownership. That is the same emotional grammar Landman uses when it turns leases and mineral rights into family pressure.

2. Tulsa King

Tulsa King is a strong follow-up if your favorite part of Landman is watching an old-school operator enter a world that has changed around him.

Sylvester Stallone plays Dwight Manfredi, a Mafia figure relocated to Oklahoma after prison. Like Tommy Norris, Dwight is funny, dangerous, exhausted by fools, and surprisingly practical. The show is lighter than Landman, but it has the same interest in men who build systems out of loyalty, fear, and opportunity.

Best for: viewers who want more crime, humor, and Sheridan-style empire building.

Why it works after Landman: Dwight and Tommy are different men, but both shows understand the pleasure of watching an older professional deal with younger, softer, or more foolish people. The humor matters. Without it, both characters would be too heavy to live with.

3. Mayor of Kingstown

If Landman is about the oil patch as a machine, Mayor of Kingstown is about a prison town as a machine.

Jeremy Renner leads a bleak Sheridan drama about power brokers, police, inmates, gangs, and families trapped inside an economy built around incarceration. It is darker and less fun than Landman, but it scratches the same itch: one man tries to manage a system that should not be manageable.

Best for: viewers who liked Tommy as a crisis manager more than Tommy as a family man.

Why it works after Landman: Mayor of Kingstown takes the "one man everyone calls when the system breaks" idea and removes most of the comic relief. It is harsher, but the structure is familiar: power is unofficial, danger is constant, and peace is usually temporary.

4. Goliath

For more Billy Bob Thornton, go to Goliath.

Thornton plays Billy McBride, a burned-out lawyer fighting powerful enemies. It is not a Western, but it gives you the same central pleasure: Thornton as a damaged professional who sees through everyone's nonsense and still somehow keeps moving.

If Tommy Norris is a landman-lawyer-fixer hybrid, Billy McBride is the legal version of that same weathered archetype.

Best for: viewers who mainly came to Landman for Billy Bob Thornton.

Why it works after Landman: Thornton gives both characters a similar ability to turn fatigue into charisma. He does not play competence as clean or heroic. He plays it as something worn down, resentful, and still sharper than everyone else in the room.

5. Lioness

Lioness is another Sheridan series, but it swaps oil country for military intelligence.

The connection is not setting. It is pressure. Like Landman, Lioness is built around people whose personal lives are constantly invaded by institutional violence, secrecy, and mission logic. The tone is more tactical, but the moral exhaustion feels familiar.

Best for: viewers who want Sheridan tension without another ranch or oil field.

Why it works after Landman: Sheridan's best shows often ask what the job costs at home. Lioness pushes that question into national-security territory, but the emotional structure will feel familiar to anyone who watches Tommy's family life get swallowed by the patch.

6. 1923

If you want the older mythic version of the Landman world, 1923 is the better Yellowstone spinoff to try.

It gives you frontier hardship, family survival, land pressure, and the feeling that a family's future can depend on a few brutal decisions made under terrible conditions. It also stars Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, which gives the show a prestige weight that many Sheridan fans respond to.

Best for: viewers who like Landman's older-generation conflict and West Texas fatalism.

Why it works after Landman: 1923 makes hardship feel inherited. That helps if your favorite Landman material involves older men, fathers and sons, legacy, debt, and the idea that a family can be trapped by decisions made before the young people understood the cost.

7. Territory

Netflix's Territory is often described as an Australian answer to Yellowstone, but it also works for Landman fans.

It centers on a massive cattle station, family conflict, succession, land pressure, and outside forces trying to carve up an empire. The oil business is absent, but the question is similar: who controls the land, who deserves it, and who is willing to get dirty to keep it?

Best for: viewers who want land, family, and succession drama outside the Sheridan universe.

Why it works after Landman: Territory is useful because it proves the formula can travel. Replace West Texas oil with an Australian cattle empire and many of the same pressures remain: land is wealth, family is unstable, outsiders circle, and nobody agrees on who deserves control.

8. Longmire

Longmire is quieter than Landman, but it shares the modern Western mood.

The series follows a Wyoming sheriff navigating crime, grief, local politics, and the cultural tension of a rural place that outsiders often misunderstand. It is more procedural than Landman, but it has the same attraction to landscape, dry humor, old loyalties, and men who carry too much.

Best for: viewers who want a slower, more grounded Western crime series.

Why it works after Landman: Longmire gives you regional texture without constant corporate scale. It is a good palate reset if Landman's oil-company chaos is what you enjoyed, but you want something more procedural and patient before jumping into another empire story.

9. Joe Pickett

Joe Pickett is another good rural-modern option, especially for viewers who like stories where law, land, wildlife, business, and community overlap.

It follows a Wyoming game warden pulled into local crime and corruption. It is smaller than Landman, but the setting-driven storytelling makes it a useful recommendation for fans who want more than a generic thriller.

Best for: viewers who like rural law, land conflict, and procedural mystery.

Why it works after Landman: Joe Pickett is smaller, but it shares an important instinct: place is not wallpaper. The land, the job, and the community rules all shape what the characters can do.

10. Dallas

For the old-school version of oil money melodrama, go back to Dallas.

It is glossier, more theatrical, and from a different television era, but its DNA still matters. Family, oil, inheritance, betrayal, business rivalry, and rich people behaving badly: Landman is grittier, but it is not pretending those older pleasures do not exist.

Best for: viewers who want to see the classic oil-family soap that modern shows keep remixing.

Why it works after Landman: Dallas is not gritty in the modern Sheridan sense, but it is the ancestor of television oil drama. If you want to understand the older fantasy of Texas oil wealth that Landman dirties up, it belongs on the list.

Image: Landman season 1, episode 1. Photo credit: Emerson Miller/Paramount+ via Paramount Press Express.

What to skip if you want the exact Landman feeling

Not every show with crime, Texas, or rich families fits.

You may not want a pure police procedural if your favorite part of Landman is the oil business. You may not want a clean prestige legal drama if what you want is field danger and family damage. You may not want a historical Western if you mainly liked the modern setting, cell phones, boardrooms, drilling, and contemporary money.

That does not make those shows bad. It just means they answer a different craving.

For the closest Landman substitute, choose shows where work is the story engine. The job should not be incidental. In Landman, oil work creates the family conflict, the legal conflict, the money conflict, and the moral conflict. The best follow-up shows do the same with ranching, crime, law, prison politics, national security, or land succession.

Best three-show watch path

If you want a clean path instead of a long list, use this order:

1. Yellowstone for the closest Sheridan family-and-land power drama.
2. Goliath for more Billy Bob Thornton carrying a show with weary intelligence.
3. Territory for a non-Sheridan land empire story that still feels built for Landman fans.

That combination covers the three main reasons people respond to Landman: the modern Western mood, the central performance, and the land-and-family power struggle.

Best picks by mood

Use this if you know what you want tonight.

For a tense family empire: choose Yellowstone or Territory. Both shows understand that inheritance is not a peaceful word when land is involved.

For a weary older lead who can still dominate a room: choose Goliath or Tulsa King. One gives you Billy Bob Thornton in legal-war mode; the other gives you an older operator building a new power structure with more humor.

For a darker system-management drama: choose Mayor of Kingstown. It is the least relaxing option here, but it is the closest to Tommy's "everything is broken and somehow I am responsible" energy.

For a mythic Western family mood: choose 1923. It does not feel modern, but it helps explain the older Sheridan obsession with family survival, land, and generational cost.

For a slower rural crime option: choose Longmire or Joe Pickett. They are better when you want landscape, local rules, and grounded mystery instead of boardroom pressure.

For oil money as melodrama: choose Dallas. It is not subtle, but it is the grandparent of the television oil-family fantasy.

Why there is no perfect replacement

The reason Landman is hard to replace is that it sits in an unusual middle.

It is not only a Taylor Sheridan show. It is not only a Billy Bob Thornton vehicle. It is not only an oil drama. It is not only a family drama. It is not only a modern Western. The show works because those pieces keep interrupting each other.

Tommy can be dealing with a corporate emergency, then a family problem, then a field death, then a legal threat, then a dangerous investor, all inside the same general world. That variety is the hook. It gives the show a bigger surface area than most dramas built around one workplace or one family.

So the best replacement is usually not one show. It is a small rotation:

• Watch Yellowstone when you want the Sheridan land-and-family machine.
• Watch Goliath when you miss Thornton's voice and timing.
• Watch Territory when you want succession pressure without repeating the same universe.
• Watch Tulsa King when you want an easier, funnier version of the older-operator fantasy.

That rotation will feel closer than forcing one series to do every job Landman does.

The best order to watch

If you want the closest match, watch Yellowstone, then Tulsa King, then Mayor of Kingstown.

If you want more Billy Bob Thornton, watch Goliath first.

If you want land and family succession without Sheridan, try Territory.

If you want the oldest oil-soap ancestor, watch Dallas.

And if your real question is what fills the exact Landman hole, the answer is probably a rotation: one Sheridan show for tone, one Billy Bob show for performance, and one land-and-family show for the empire drama.

That should hold until Tommy Norris, Cooper, CTT Oil, and whatever trouble Gallino brings next are back on Paramount+.

Sources and further reading

• TVLine: 15 TV shows like Landman
• Slashfilm: 12 best shows like Taylor Sheridan's Landman
• Screen Rant: If you miss Landman, watch Territory
• JustWatch: Taylor Sheridan shows ranked and where to watch