Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Mike Redmond | News | June 30, 2026
First off, the fact that this article isn’t entirely about Billy Bob Thornton dressing like Jamiroquai is a crime, and for that I apologize. There’s no one to blame but me, and I own that. The buck stops here.
With that important business out of the way, Taylor Sheridan gave another one of his swinging d*ck interviews where he made it clear that he is very still deep in the Taylor Sheridan sauce. No one thinks more highly of Taylor Sheridan than Taylor Sheridan, and by golly, he’s going to tell you why.
In Sheridan’s defense, he is the pre-eminent boomer whisperer of our time. The guy has an almost preternatural gift for getting everyone’s parents to watch his 8 million shows. Credit where credit is due. However, like any writer, he is not immune to the thoughts of his critics or an opportunity to bait them, which is exactly what he did with Demi Moore’s character in Landman Season 1.
Here’s what he told The Bill Simmons Podcast, and spoilers ahead if you haven’t watched the show. Via Variety:
Sheridan got specific about some of the criticism he anticipated for “Landman,” the Paramount+ drama in which Demi Moore spent most of the first season near a swimming pool. Sheridan admitted that she was told up front that she would essentially be an extra in Season 1 before moving into a central role in Season 2, and he knew exactly how that would play out. “The critics are going to come after me. I’m underutilizing [Moore], can’t write for women, all this nonsense. Then I’m going to kill your husband and you’re going to have to run the oil company. The critics and me — I don’t care what they think, and it annoys the sh*t out of them that I don’t care. I’ll be the first to tell you that there are things that I do that rage-bait them a bit, and this is one of them. F*ck ‘em, honestly.”
Did that plan work? Yes. Yes, it did. Before this interview cannabilized the search results for Demi Moore and Landman, there was no shortage of articles proclaiming that the show was “wasting” her. So, touché, I guess? You sure taught everyone to quit saying you can’t write for women by… not writing for a woman.
Anyway, Sheridan continued his tough guy rant by saying he also doesn’t care about winning an Emmy:
“You’re not going to win no Emmys with me, but I’m not trying to win Emmys. That’s not my goal. My goal is to sit somebody on their couch and move them, make them think, make them laugh, scare the shit out of them, excite them. That’s what I want to do, because that’s what I want from a show.”
And then things got really weird when he waxed poetic about New York City of all places, once again proving that it’s impossible to nail down Sheridan’s politics.
“The only way you’re getting me back to Los Angeles is if it secedes from the union and I’m drafted into the Army to take it back. It’s the only way,” he said. “I love New York. That city’s way, way stronger than whatever political wind is blowing it in any direction, right? Whereas L.A. is built on sand.”
My man is reaching a level of self-aggrandizement that you rarely see outside of Quentin Tarantino. If Taylor Sheridan’s next show is called Feetland, watch out, we’ve got a new ego king of Hollywood, everybody.
