The ladies hosting The View are fans of the Paramount+ series Landman. In November of 2024, they were gushing over the star Billy Bob Thornton. So they might be shocked to hear a brutal critique of their show and them coming out of the mouth of his character Tommy Norris.
It came in episode 5 of the second season when Tommy was explaining to his father TL (Sam Elliott) what "The View was all about. Here is their conversation as relayed by Variety:
In the episode, Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton) is urging his father, T.L. (Sam Elliott), to kill time around the house by watching a TV show and suggests “The View.” When T.L. admits that he doesn’t know what that is, Tommy explains it as, “A bunch of pissed-off millionaires bitching about how much they hate millionaires and Trump and men and you and me and everybody else they got a bee up their ass about. It’s pretty funny.”
T.L. responds, “Don’t sound funny.”
Tommy replies, “Well, it ain’t joke funny, it’s like ‘fart in church’ funny, you know what I mean?”
T.L. retorts, “That don’t sound funny, either.”
Tommy then clarifies, “Well, it depends on your proximity to the fart.”
As a television critic Tommy sounds dead on accurate as to his description of The View and its gaseous hosts. Could there be be a Tommy Norris review of Morning Joe coming in the future? "Best Biden Ever" was pretty funny.
