Series

The Son 2017

Created by Brian McGreevy, Lee Shipman, Philipp Meyer

  • Drama
  • 45 min episodes
  • 2 seasons
  • 20 episodes
  • Canceled
  • TV-14

The multigenerational epic follows two concurrent time periods: One, the story of young Eli McCullough after he is kidnapped and indoctrinated into a tribe of Comanches in 1849. The other, 60 years later, when we see a grown Eli struggle to maintain his family’s cattle empire during the turbulent Bandit Wars of South Texas. Based on Philipp Meyer’s acclaimed novel.

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