45/40
Story
A modern tale of fortune-telling in the world of West Texas oil rigs
Check out writer/director Taylor Sheridan’s most popular movies and TV series on IMDb, ranked by user rating. A landowner, at least one who works in the oil industry, will serve as a middleman between exploration companies and landowners. Typically, a landowner’s job is to negotiate and finalize contracts with landowners who have mineral rights to lease those rights to the company they represent.
Referenced in CBS News Sunday Morning: Episode #4424 (2022)
Essentially, they manage the land and secure the leases, so that they can drill for oil and gas. Like a foreman on a construction site, they build roads, build housing for workers (man camps), assemble the excavation machinery, and drill the well itself, especially in remote locations. They are also part fixer, part problem solver, and part facilitator.
It’s his show!
Taylor Sheridan makes her female characters very shallow even when they seem strong, so this show is no different. But, the show wins for me because Billy Bob steals the show in every scene; even the ones where the half-naked women appear! The way the oil business is portrayed is probably very accurate to how the industry is run.
His female characters are so flawed
BB has the best lines describing the value of oil and what makes the world go round (oil). The sets are awesome, the way the rigs work is actually quite enlightening. I just don’t get why the girl is such a bimbo and the woman such a loser, but I guess that’s Sheridan’s way.
But for good lines and Billy Bob Thornton at his best, watch this show
He’s brilliant.