Warning: This post contains spoilers for Landman Season 2, Episode 3.
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Cami Miller’s grief is taking over her.
In the Nov. 30 episode of Landman, Demi Moore’s Cami, widowed after losing her husband Monty (Jon Hamm) in the season 1 finale, finds herself unable to contain her emotions after spending the night with two happy couples.
Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton) is in town and helps Cami start looking into where Monty’s money is kept. That is the source of funding for M-Tex oil. During a meeting at the Cattleman’s Club in Fort Worth, the two hit it off.
Danny (Andy Garcia) — with whom Tommy had a not-so-pleasant meeting earlier that day — also happens to be at the club. Danny and his wife Bella (Stefania Spampinato) sit at a table and share drinks and stories with Cami, Tommy, and their partner Angela (Ali Larter). During the outing, Cami commented on how lucky the two couples were to have found each other and are still in love, as her own sadness and loneliness was expressed without Monty by her side.
“You all need to cherish this. I mean, do you know how rare it is to love someone long enough to actually know them?” she told the group. “Most people fall in love once they start getting to know their partner. But those who fall deeper in love are rare. Very rare. How strange to be sitting at a table full of them.”
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While at the club, Cami also checks how much time has passed since Monty died, revealing that she has been counting every hour since losing him. “Seven weeks, three days ago, 11 hours ago” is what she says when Danny asks how long Monty has been dead.
The episode ended with Cami coming home to the big house and collapsing on the patio. She hugged a framed photo of her wedding with Monty and sobbed. In perhaps the most emotionally intense scene of the Taylor Sheridan series to date, she breaks down in tears.
While Monty’s death in season one was heartbreaking for Cami, it also meant a bigger role for Moore, 63, in The Landman.
Co-creator Christian Wallace told TVLine that Monty’s death was a “great opportunity for Cami to play a bigger role in this world” for season two.
Moore said she was clearly “completely unprepared” for how emotionally demanding Cami’s storyline would be going into season two.
“At first, I was totally unprepared for the grief part of it and the depth of the pain that I had to touch on,” she told TV Line, adding that Monty “really was the love of[Cami’s]life.”
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“I think I probably had an idea in my head of the role of the company and what that entailed before the scripts started coming in, and I felt less reluctance, maybe more fear, about having to go there,” she said.
New episodes of Landman premiere Sunday on Paramount+
