How accurate is Landman and what parts of the storyline are based on real events from the podcast?

LANDMAN is simply a fictional amusement that was inspired by the factual podcast Boomtown.

Here we analyse which parts of the lipid manufacture TV bid are based connected existent beingness events.

What is Landman?

Landman is an American TV play created by Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace, based connected the podcast Boomtown — which was besides hosted by the latter.

The amusement is acceptable successful the satellite of West Texas lipid fields, exploring the lives of radical from each walks of beingness seeking their luck successful the industry.

The bid premiered connected November 17, 2024, exclusively connected Paramount+, with consequent episodes released play each Sunday — the archetypal play consisted of 10 episodes.

The amusement has been a large success, ranking arsenic the third-most-watched archetypal streaming bid successful 2024, according to a study released by Luminate.

How close is Landman?

Landman draws heavy from real-life events from the Texas lipid industry.

As co-creator Christian told Deadline: "A batch of it is precise accurate.

"Some of it we had to benignant of compression unneurotic to marque it marque consciousness for our characters.

"And it’s funny, it depends connected who you ask. My uncle who works successful the lipid tract for the past 30 years volition nitpick each small thing.

"But I deliberation for the astir part, it’s harmless to accidental you get a decent consciousness of what it’s similar moving successful lipid and state retired there."

Drug cartels

When questioned astir however existent the show's cause cartels are, helium replied: "I didn’t code the cartel issues precise overmuch successful the podcast, but it is simply a existent contented arsenic acold arsenic the cause trafficking done that region.

"There’s lipid theft, there’s instrumentality theft. It is benignant of the chaotic westbound successful definite ways retired there. And truthful that portion is accurate.

"The narration betwixt the cartel and [the fictitious lipid business] M-Tex is fictional, but I accidental it’s successful the realm of possibility."

Asked astir which elements of the podcast made it onto the screen, Christian said: "There are things passim the full amusement that are small call-outs from parts of the podcast.

Bikini-clad baristas

Christian admitted: "We’ve had a ton of radical asking maine if determination are truly bikini-clad baristas serving java to guys connected their mode to enactment successful the lipid field.

"And the reply to that is, yes, determination truly are. We really had an occurrence of the podcast wherever we spoke to immoderate of these baristas.

"Sex enactment is simply a immense portion of immoderate roar municipality that is simply a portion of the economy. It’s portion of what happens, and past determination are the deaths connected the rigs successful the lipid field.

"Those are things that truly happened. We touched connected that successful the podcast. We went heavy into immoderate of the lipid tract accidents and safety."

'Real story'

The show's co-creator went connected to say: "Some of the scenes are straight from that, specified arsenic the tube crushing scene. That’s a existent communicative that I heard from my uncle increasing up.

"It was a tube rack that fell connected him and not pipes, but helium truly did telephone his woman earlier helium passed away."

Christian added: "Some of the things that astir look unbelievable are really based connected reality.

So adjacent though Landman is simply a fictional series, it strives for authenticity successful its portrayal of the Texas lipid industry.

It combines existent events, experiences and manufacture practices with dramatized storylines to make a compelling communicative that gives viewers a "decent sense" of what it was truly like.