Jacob Lofland

Jacob Lofland plays Cooper Norris on Landman (Paramount+, 2024–), the 2020s Sheridan oil hour where boomtown crises, family mess, and diesel money share the frame. Billy Bob Thornton manages the weather; Cooper is the younger voltage on the lease — industry texture, a family business that does not photograph as a postcard.

Lofland sells the job as a life, not an extra in a hard-hat montage.

Call the span 2024– and the network Paramount+: Landman as a weekly job. Jacob Lofland’s Cooper Norris keeps Landman’s West Texas oil soap from becoming only a Billy Bob Thornton monologue — boomtown crises, family mess, money that smells like diesel. Paramount+ after Yellowstone, with arguments about whether the work looks too much like work. Jacob Lofland holds Cooper Norris like a vocation.

The honest first hour is s01e01: Landman as the job-title contract: Billy Bob Thornton managing boomtown crises, family mess, and money that smells like diesel, Paramount+ after Yellowstone. Mid-run weather lives in s02e10 (Tragedy and Flies as latest listed hour: industry-accuracy arguments still in the comments, Sheridan soap still oil, still a ratings play with a lived-in star). The catalog's extra hour is s02e01: Death and a Sunset as season-two launch: West Texas weather as title, still boomtown, still Thornton as the crisis manager the franchise needed.

Watch for the ratings play and the accuracy fights that erupt when a show looks too much like actual work. On TV Flash Lofland is 2020s ensemble grit: the kid on the patch who makes the soap feel inherited. We file him as the reason Landman has a future tense, not just a drawl.