Warning: This post contains spoilers for Landman season 2, episode 3.
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Cami Miller’s grief is catching up to her.
In the Nov. 30 episode of Landman, Demi Moore’s character, Cami, who was widowed after her husband Monty (Jon Hamm) died in the season 1 finale, can’t hold back her emotions after a night out with two happy couples.
Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton) was in town and helped Cami start to look into where Monty kept his money, which is what funds M-Tex Oil. During their meeting, the pair got into it at the Cattleman’s Club in Fort Worth.
Danny (Andy Garcia) — who Tommy had a less-than-pleasant meeting with earlier in the day — happened to be at the club, too. Danny and his wife, Bella (Stefania Spampinato), sat down at a table and shared drinks and stories with Cami, Tommy and his partner Angela (Ali Larter). During the outing, Cami commented on how lucky the two couples were to have found each other and to still be so in love, as her own grief and loneliness was on display not having Monty by her side.
“Y’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, once they get to know their partner, they fall out of love. But a rare few fall deeper — a very rare few. How strange to be sitting at a table full of ’em.”
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While at the club, Cami also confirmed how long it’s been since Monty died, as she revealed she’s been counting by the hour since she lost him. “Seven weeks, three days, 11 hours ago,” is what she told Danny when he asked how long ago Monty died.
The episode ended with Cami getting home to her big house and collapsing on the patio. She sobbed and held a framed photo from her wedding to Monty. She was wailing through her tears in what was possibly the most emotionally intense scene of the Taylor Sheridan series so far.
While Monty’s death in season 1 brought heartbreak for Cami, it also meant a bigger role for Moore, 63, in Landman.
Co-creator Christian Wallace told TVLine that Monty’s death was an “incredible opportunity for Cami to play a bigger role in this world” going into season 2.
Moore has said that she was admittedly “not entirely prepared” for just how emotionally demanding Cami’s storyline would be as she entered season 2.
“I, at first, was really not entirely prepared for the grief part of it and just the depth of pain that I needed to touch into,” she told TV Line, as she said Monty “truly was the love of [Cami’s] life.”
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“I think in my mind, perhaps, before the scripts started to come in, I was thinking about the company part and what that was going to entail. And I definitely had a lot of, not resistance, but maybe more fear about having to go to that place,” she said.
New episodes of Landman premiere Sundays on Paramount+
