Staff Reports
Taylor Sheridan’s new Paramount+ drama Landman delivered a moment that conservative Americans have been waiting to see: a blunt takedown of daytime elites. In the December 14, 2025 episode, Billy Bob Thornton’s gruff character Tommy sums up the network-approved rage machine as little more than wealthy hosts railing at ordinary people and even each other. That line landed because it exposed a truth too many in Hollywood refuse to admit.
Tommy’s description — that a certain daytime panel is basically a group of wealthy women complaining about millionaires, political opponents, and men — was delivered with the kind of straight talk that American workers understand. The line was played for laughs, but the laugh came from recognition: ordinary Americans know when elites are out of touch. Sheridan has built a career giving voice to that resentment, and viewers notice when writers stop sugarcoating the cultural disconnect.
Good television can call out hypocrisy, and Sheridan’s shows have done exactly that from Yellowstone onward. It is no accident that a producer who celebrates rugged individualism and real-world grit allows a character to skewer the media class; audiences are hungry for honesty after years of sanctimonious punditry. Conservative viewers should applaud creators who refuse to genuflect to the coastal consensus and who instead reflect everyday American common sense.
Let’s be blunt: The daytime panel in question has long presented itself as the moral arbiter while living in a world of privilege that most Americans will never see. Hosts perched in lucrative comfort lecture working families on values and politics, yet the disconnect between their lifestyles and their lectures is glaring and deservedly mocked. When fictional characters point out that disconnect on a mass-audience platform, it’s not an attack on women or discourse — it’s a call for accountability.
This isn’t just about one show or one funny line; it’s about the larger rot in today’s media where outrage is a product and hypocrisy is invisible to those who profit from it. Conservatives have long argued that mainstream culture is dominated by elites who talk down to the country while benefiting from the very systems they disparage. Sheridan’s Landman is popular because it finally dramatizes the frustration millions of Americans feel toward a self-congratulatory media class.
If anything, Hollywood should take the message to heart instead of reflexively whining about being criticized. Real Americans want entertainment that respects their values and doesn’t treat them as the punchline. So tune into shows that celebrate hard work and common sense, and let the sanctimony of cable panels fade under the bright light of honest storytelling.
