Two former residents of Westeros are teaming up with the twisted mind behind Black Mirror.
Lena Headey and Paddy Considine have signed on to star in a Netflix detective series from Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker, the streamer announced on Tuesday. The untitled four-part series seems to be a parody of dreary UK crime dramas, pitched as “a profoundly serious, stunningly original crime thriller in which a tormented detective from the Northern city of Bleakford ventures down to London on a mission to catch a ritualistic serial killer before they run out of people to kill.” (It “contains blood and frowning,” the synopsis adds.)
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Joining Headey and Considine in the cast is Georgina Campbell (Krypton), who starred in Black Mirror’s Season 4 episode “Hang the DJ.” Headey, of course, is best known for playing Cersei Lannister on HBO’s Game of Thrones, while Considine appeared in the freshman season of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon as King Viserys Targaryen.
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