‘Landman’ episode options Ainsley’s problematic TCU roommate Paigyn

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The newest episode of the hit series "Landman" took goal at "safe-space" tradition with a personality discovering out their faculty roommate makes use of they/them pronouns.

The Paramount+ hit collection created by Taylor Sheridan, and Christian Wallace, follows Tommy Norris, performed by Billy Bob Thornton, as he makes dangerous offers within the West Texas oil trade whereas juggling energy, cash, and household. Within the Jan. 11 episode , Tommy's daughter Ainsley, performed by Michelle Randolph, is off to cheer camp at Texas Christian College, the place she shall be attending faculty the upcoming fall semester, and receives a shock in her dorm.

Ainsley has a sports activities medication main roommate with quick crimson hair named "Paigyn" who goes by they/them pronouns.

"I all the time questioned why they/them? As a result of there’s simply certainly one of you and people are plural pronouns," Ainsley requested. "I simply by no means actually understood the hoopla with pronouns. My identify’s Ainsley and I simply can’t actually give you a cause why you'll deal with me in third individual in a dialog that I’m part of. So when you do, I’m most likely not there so I wouldn’t actually know what pronouns you're utilizing anyhow. So why wouldn't it matter?"

Jacob Lofland, Ali Larter, Billy Bob Thornton, Demi Moore, and Andy Garcia attend the "Landman" FYC Occasion in Los Angeles at Saban Media Heart on June 8, 2025, in North Hollywood, California. (Jon Kopaloff/Getty Photos for Paramount+)

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The roommate additionally revealed a pet ferret and dismissed Ainsley's concept of getting an air freshener within the room as a result of it could imply inhaling "poisonous airborne petrochemicals."

Paigyn additionally knowledgeable Ainsley to not eat meat merchandise, play music, and to keep away from utilizing triggering phrases like "penetrate" within the room.

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"That is my protected house, and I want my atmosphere crafted to assist my psychological well being," Paigyn stated.

After going into the room throughout Paigyn's meditation time and the roommate's requests for the lights to be off, Ainsley goes to the college to request a change.

Her faculty advisor refuses to assist her discover a new roommate. Upset about this, Ainsley calls her mother Angela, performed by Ali Larter.

Angela returns to TCU, and heads proper into the advisor's workplace, decided to discover a repair for her daughter. Upset that the advisor won't give her one other housing possibility, Angela calls for a waiver for Ainsley to stay off-campus, citing "allergy symptoms" when informed she wants a medical cause. The advisor shortly agrees to attract up paperwork, and Ainsley heads together with her mother to a close-by luxurious resort for the rest of cheer camp.

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This is not the primary time the collection has poked enjoyable at progressives.

An episode again in December had the character Tommy described the feminine hosts of ABC's discuss present "The View" as a bunch of "pissed-off millionaires."

"A bunch of pissed-off millionaires b----ing about how a lot they hate millionaires and Trump and males and also you and me and all people else they bought a bee up their a-- about," he stated.