{"id":120016,"date":"2025-11-05T22:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/120016\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T22:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:49:10","slug":"gillian-anderson-lena-headey-duel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/120016\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillian Anderson, Lena Headey duel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cersei Lannister lost the game of thrones<\/a>, but Lena Headey<\/a> has the chance to win a brand new struggle for power in Netflix\u2019s The Abandons. The Western-set drama stars Headey and Gillian Anderson<\/a> as competing matriarchs from vastly different backgrounds, both of whom are vying for the same plot of land\u2014one which will help their respective families reign over the entire frontier. Amidst their contest, Constance Van Ness (Anderson) and Fiona Nolan (Headey) \u201cfind their fates linked by two crimes, an awful secret, a star-crossed love, and a piece of land with silver underneath,\u201d the show\u2019s logline reads. \u201cThe collision echoes the American struggle of the haves and have-nots, in a place just beyond the reach of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the very different settings (The Abandons sets its stage on the Washington Territory of 1854), the above description may sound familiar to Game Of Thrones<\/a> fans. This time, however, it\u2019s Anderson\u2019s character who\u2019s operating from a place of wealth and privilege, specifically the mining fortune she was left by her late husband. Fiona, on the other hand, is the leader of a found family of orphans and outcasts. \u201cMy family are five abandoned souls, now kin,\u201d she says in response to Constance\u2019s \u201cgenerous offer\u201d on the ranch. \u201cGod gave us this home, and only God can take it away.\u201d Constance doesn\u2019t seem to care much for divine providence\u2014another character says she has a \u201cgodless soul\u201d\u2014so, unsurprisingly, she goes ahead and tries to take it anyway.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a Romeo and Juliet storyline underlying all this, as Fiona\u2019s son Elias (Nick Robinson) strikes up a romance with Constance\u2019s daughter Trisha (Aisling Franciosi). Will the star-crossed lovers meet the same fates as their Shakespearean counterparts or will Constance and Fiona find a way to set aside their differences for the sake of their families? We\u2019ll see when the series premieres December 4, but based on the trailer, the latter doesn\u2019t seem likely. After all, when you play the game of frontiers, you win or you die.<\/p>\n

Check out the Abandons trailer below:<\/p>\n

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