Female characters
The program has also been criticized, at least in the first season, for presenting female characters as caricatures and negative stereotypes of women. [50] [51] [52] A reviewer for Texas Monthly writes "With all the low-cut tops, high-cut shorts, and dumb-blonde dialogue, I felt like I was watching a racy reboot of a T & A show." [52] When reviewing the first two episodes of the first season, the reviewer from National Public Radio noted that the talents of Demi Moore and Ali Larter were being underutilized and in those scenes, they were "playing caricatures and male fantasies". [50] A writer from Rolling Stone noted that "The show gives an unsolicited glimpse of what The Dukes of Hazzard would have looked like if it had been on late-night Cinemax. Thornton’s Tommy has an ex-wife and a daughter who are seemingly characters plucked from dubious scenarios on PornHub." [53] In her review for Entertainment Weekly , the reviewer wrote "the women of Landman exist solely in the context of how they are perceived by Tommy and his cowboy cohorts — put simply, they are around to distract, annoy, titillate, entreat, or yell at the men." [51] A writer for The New Yorker commented "The screenwriting plays fast and loose with sexist stereotypes; Tommy’s ex-wife, Angela (played by Ali Larter), with whom he rekindles a relationship, is a kind of red-state Manic Pixie Dream MILF, flaunting her cleavage, giving road head, and acting crazy when she’s getting her period." [54]
In contrast, actress Ali Larter defended Sheridan's controversial writing style claiming that he writes "women in their prime, that were still allowed to be alive." Larter also defended her portrayal of Angela, "stating that Angela is able to express that side of herself, and that the character is a full rainbow." [55]
