On the latest episode of Sheridan’s gritty oil prospecting drama Landman, Billy Bob Thornton’s gruff crisis fixer and oil exec Tommy Norris takes a shot at the long-running daytime talk show. Speaking with his estranged father T.L. (Sam Elliott) over the phone, Tommy suggests the bored retiree find some new way of filling his time after moving in with his son.
“I don’t know what to do,” T.L. bemoans. “Well s—, do whatever you want to, read a book or watch TV, watch one of those daytime talk shows, like The View or something.”
T.L. innocently asks, “What’s The View?” prompting Tommy to launch into a casual yet brutal takedown.
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“Bunch of pissed off millionaires bitching about how much they hate millionaires, [President Donald] Trump, and men, and you, and me, and everybody else they got a bee up their ass about.”
However savage Tommy is in his assessment, he does at least qualify his remarks by calling The View “pretty funny.”
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for The View for comment.
Landman is the seventh show the prolific Sheridan has premiered since Yellowstone first made waves with its 2018. It may be the latest show to enter the Sheridan-verse, but as yet it bears no direct connection to Yellowstone or its many spinoffs, aside from featuring two cast members who previously appeared on those spinoffs (Michelle Randolph appeared in 1923 and Elliott starred in 1883).
The current cast of The View — Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin — have rarely ventured commentary on Sheridan or his TV universe, which tends to portray rugged individualists who at times espouse conservative values. But panelists like Goldberg and Behar comment daily on American conservatism and frequently critique Trump.
In November, the White House slammed Haines, Hostin, and Griffin’s discussion of the files related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and their many mentions of Trump, calling them “Trump-deranged wackos.”
