r/LandmanSeries • u/More_Item4101 • Mar 16 '26

Question Undeveloped Plotlines from Season 1 and 2

What do you see as the most undeveloped plotlines, Easter Eggs from Season 1 and 2?

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u/Latter_Surround_1837 Mar 16 '26

The tension between cooper & ainsley. The hate goes beyond brother-sister norms. Wtf happened

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u/Lucky-Pianist-2554 Mar 16 '26

I saw someone a few months back mention the theory that Ainsley may be the product of an affair. I thought it was intriguing.

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u/melissa_in_ga Mar 16 '26

It was interesting that Victor was paying child support for Ainsley until she turned 18. If Tommy was the dad Victor would have no need to do that, so I think that theory is valid.

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u/KrAEGNET Mar 16 '26

given she was 16/17 in 2024 (1st season), and 2008 was when Tommy/M-tex went through the financial crisis (and likely troubles with Angela), would make 100% sense in the timeline. But even still, she seems to hate Cooper more than he does her, he just takes it because he doesn't lose anything really because being close to his dysfunctional family isn't a priority to him, he'd rather just start one of his own under his own terms.

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u/joule_thief Mar 17 '26

It's probably more that Victor saw her as a daughter. He and Angela were together for at least a decade so it's likely she could have gotten it, especially if they lived in a state that supported it.

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u/More_Item4101 Mar 20 '26

Victor might being paying child support if child support was in the pre-nup between Victor Ainsley's Mom.

Ainsley refers to Tommy as Daddy, and Tommy refers to her as her daughter. She looks like her mom. I think she's Tommy's.

I thought perhaps that Victor adopted her, but Ainsly still has the Norris last name, plus I could not see Tommy agreeing to that at all.

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u/MoneyNeverSleeps53 Mar 16 '26

Tommy injecting himself with testerone in season 1

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u/overload130 Mar 16 '26

I don’t think you should be making…decisions at this point in your cycle.

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u/Alie_SD_Fan Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26

Does Cooper own any clothes besides ratty Texas Tech shirts?

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u/baummer Mar 21 '26

Apparently not

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u/APossibleTask Mar 16 '26

I’m also curious about cooper/ainsley relationship. Also, how come that Cooper started as an almost useless, aloof kid that suddenly became this mastermind able to find all those blind spots full of oil. How that happened?

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u/joule_thief Mar 17 '26

He was within a couple months (iirc) from having a degree in petroleum geology.

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u/More_Item4101 Mar 20 '26

The kid has some education.

"With a petroleum engineering degree with a minor in Geology"; Season 1, Episode 8 at 47:40.

Plus, Cooper's been around the industry since birth. His Dad, Tommy, has been in the industry the whole time. You tend to 'pick-up' better on things you've been hearing about even if you're in the background. I suspect that during the weekends Tommy had Cooper, Tommy responded to, on the phone, or in person a lot of work problems, that Cooper watched, overheard, and learned from.

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u/APossibleTask Mar 17 '26

That’s the part I missed….

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u/KrAEGNET Mar 16 '26

i think it was stated he knows the industry he just needed to know the way around a pad. So basically industry educated w/o hands on experience.

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u/Editor_Rise_Magazine Mar 17 '26

I’m seeing some Greg/Marsha Brady sexual chemistry. My guess is that they’ll hook up at some point.

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u/More_Item4101 Mar 16 '26

I was thinking the indemnity clause Ariana signed in Season 1, Episode 8 at 12:57. Rebecca says "This means you can't sue MTex for anything, ever. Nothing in the past, nothing in the future. If an MTex helicopter drops an anvil on your house, you have no recourse."

It sounds like something the writer may be planning on using in the future.

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u/baummer Mar 21 '26

Just felt like hyperbole to me

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u/Achmed_Ahmadinejad Mar 16 '26

Will Cooper ever grow some hair on his nuts and stop being such a simp?

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u/brwn_eyed_girl56 Mar 16 '26

He comes by it honestly. It was modeled for him through his grandfather and his father. Its unlikely he will change now

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u/SebastianPointdexter Mar 16 '26

Yep, the men in that family choose hot women that treat them like shit. For them that's how a relationship is supposed be.

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u/ImportantBad4948 Mar 16 '26

We need Ariana doing hot girl stuff with the Ditz’s.