Landman Fans Officially Turn On Rebecca…& Blame Taylor Sheridan: “Writes Women So Unlikable”

This seems all too familiar... There's no two ways about it, Landman might be Taylor Sheridan's most popular show when it is all said and done. We all know that Yellowstone was the series that put him on the map, one that earned him a billion dollar blank check from Paramount to make a dozen new shows, but so far, folks are LOVING Landman.  Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Hamm, Demi Moore, Ali Larter and more, it tackles the world of big oil in West Texas, but not without a healthy dose of that signature Taylor Sheridan drama. Think of it like Yellowstone but instead of ranching, we're talking oil. The show is entertaining and somewhat informative (in a highly dramatized way) with how it peels back the curtain on the oil industry, an industry that most folks know nothing about. There are quite a few moments of comic relief, and it features a pretty solid performance from Billy Bob Thornton. However, the weird, overly sexual dialogue between him and his supposed 17 year old daughter Ainsley (Michelle Randolph) is extremely creepy, and fans pretty much hate her character along with her obnoxious and manipulative mom, Angela (Ali Larter). But overall, I've enjoyed the show a lot. Plus, the soundtrack is FANTASTIC. However, there's one character who fans initially seemed to like a lot, and then quickly turned on... Rebecca Falcone (Kayla Wallace). Rebecca is the hot shot, attractive, young lawyer who proves she has the brains to match her beauty in Episode 4 when she owns the room in a deposition. Of course, we all heard Beth Dutton use the "law degree over my toilet" line in Yellowstone, but it was nevertheless, a badass scene:

@paramountplusaustralia Rebecca, you dropped this 👑 #Landman now streaming exclusively on #ParamountPlus ♬ original sound - Paramount+ Australia

However, following Episode 8, "Clumsy, This Life," fans have fully turned on her. A number of Landman fans took exception to the storyline, and couldn't understand why Rebecca was so callous in her negotiations, threatening to Cooper, and unprofessional once the deal got done. As someone who worked in the legal field before I gave it all up to blog about silly stuff like Landman, and someone who has direct experience in probably over 100 civil suit settlement negotiations, I can tell you that strong-arming, losing your cool, and threatening the people you're trying to get a signature from is rarely the way to approach that. And a number of comments agreed: "Good attorneys don’t need to act like that. When you’re trying to settle a claim for a decedent you are dealing with emotions and not just numbers on a page. You have to be firm with them, but also compassionate." "I'm still trying to figure out the strategy of the company's lawyer railroading their irreplaceable landman's son with slanderous lies and making him a patsy." "Maybe a disbarment is in her fictional future." "I don’t understand any of why she lost her sh*t, other than as a plot device. The whole negotiation should have irritated her a little but in the end… it’s worth it for everyone involved." "She was flying high after her win with the smarmy sexist lawyer in Episode 4, but she flew too close to the sun and was burned by a 22 year old "Worm" who she massively underestimated. Her ego couldn't handle it." "Boss babe needs to check her tone." "There is that saying that you become your own worst enemy. She became hers and Cooper is wiping the floor with her!" "She went to school for like 8 years to get schooled by a kid that dropped out of college for all to see. It was great." "I still can't get over the scene where she was asking Tommy "what's that?" to a field of wind turbines like they were foreign contraptions." "I don't think she was real popular with much of the audience from the moment she showed up. This week she took the badge of most hated away from Angela and Ainsley though." "It’s funny cuz if she had just kept her mouth shut and let Nathan do all the talking, then the company never would have had to pay each family even close to $1 million." But aside from the actually plot of Landman, most just thought Rebecca was par for the course with the way Taylor Sheridan writes all the women in his stories. Of course, similar to Beth in Yellowstone and Joe in Lioness, she's beautiful, ferocious, and smart, but ultimately, it's your run of the mill, over-the-top aggressive, caricature of a "boss b*tch" who eventually gets bested by the men of the show. Much like Beth Dutton, she's just become really hard to root for. And the comments prove, once again, that fans are irritated with the way Taylor Sheridan writes his female characters: "Her character is absurdly poorly written." "Her character is a badly written version of a cartoon villain." "A stupid bad guy like rest of the female characters on this show. Her only role is to make the men look smart and noble." "Sheridan only knows how to write women one way, and his only way to show they are strong willed or a “boss b*tch” is to have them be angry and yell at someone." "Terrible writing. Been around plenty of unprofessional attorneys but they don’t tend to tell someone “f*** you” for simply negotiating." "Unfortunately, it seems she came out of the same character bin that Taylor Sheridan used for Beth." "Another Taylor Sheridan brilliant piece of writing. I just don’t get how you shoot that and don’t realize that her attitude is over the top cringe." "All 3 of the boss girls are insufferable. His wife and daughter are straight up dicktonite. I skip ahead during most of their scenes because of how awful they both are." "Every woman on this show is a terrible one dimensional person, too." "She's a one-dimensional caricature. You know - like every female character in a Taylor Sheridan show." "Taylor Sheridan writes women so unlikable." "I hate every female character on this show. Rebecca the lawyer was the only smart woman character who wasn't manipulatively using sex. And then, BOOM, she gets owned by a college dropout kid with no background in law, and immediately loses her shit and blows the whole deal." I mean... it's not hard to see the parallels between some of Taylor's female characters. But what do you think? Does Taylor writer women terrible or are his characters like Beth and Rebecca entertaining? Here's the scene that set everybody off: https://www.instagram.com/p/DENUpTGxjjB/?hl=en And while you're here, gas up that Landman Soundtrack featuring GREAT country artists like Turnpike Troubadours, Red Clay Strays, Lainey Wilson, Ian Noe, Ward Davis, Zach Bryan, Kaitlin Butts, Shane Smith and the Saints, Brent Cobb, and more: Spotify Apple Music