# LANDMAN Season 2: New Villain Targets the Norris Family

Taylor Sheridan’s oil empire drama *Landman* is raising the stakes in Season 2 with a new villain who proves you don’t need guns or cartels to destroy lives. Enter Greta Stidham (played by Miriam Silverman), a college admissions counselor who has set her sights on Angela and Ainsley Norris – the wife and daughter of oil empire reluctant leader Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton).

## The Bureaucratic Assassin

Unlike traditional Sheridan antagonists, Greta doesn’t wield physical weapons but something potentially more devastating: influence over Ainsley’s academic future. As an admissions counselor, she has positioned herself at the heart of the Norris family’s vulnerabilities. With a smile and a pen, she can derail Ainsley’s college dreams and destabilize Angela’s already precarious home life.

“Forget drug lords. Let’s traumatize parents where it hurts most: tuition and acceptance letters,” seems to be Sheridan’s approach with this character. Greta represents a different kind of terror – not the explosive violence of oil fields, but the quiet manipulation that unfolds in offices and living rooms.

## Strategic Family Warfare

What makes Greta’s targeting of Angela and Ainsley particularly insidious is that they represent Tommy’s “soft underbelly.” While he can handle boardroom battles and field confrontations, attacks on his family expose his greatest weakness. Greta isn’t confronting Tommy directly – she’s undermining the two people he would do anything to protect.

Angela, already navigating a complicated reconciliation with Tommy, now faces a manipulator ready to exploit every vulnerability. Meanwhile, Ainsley’s college aspirations make her the perfect pawn in Greta’s game. This isn’t just villain behavior; it’s “precision warfare” designed to make Tommy implode as he watches his family crumble.

## The Family Under Siege

Season 2 transforms the Norris household from a place of tentative healing into a pressure cooker. Every family weakness becomes a potential breaking point, with Greta methodically applying pressure. The real battlefield isn’t the oil rigs but kitchens and counselor’s offices where emotional damage cuts deeper than bullets.

## Fan Theories Abound

Viewers are already speculating about Greta’s true motives. Some believe she’s connected to bigger players – perhaps fronting for cartel money or working for corporate rivals. Others predict she’ll completely destroy Ainsley’s academic future, triggering Tommy’s protective rage. More dramatic theories suggest she might drive a permanent wedge between Tommy and Angela, or even corrupt Ainsley herself.

After Season 1’s shocking developments (including killing off a major character), fans understand that no one is safe in Sheridan’s world. Will Greta limit herself to bureaucratic sabotage, or will her schemes escalate to bloodshed? One thing is certain: by targeting the Norris family through their aspirations rather than with brute force, Landman’s newest villain proves that sometimes the most devastating attacks come with a smile.