The Son
Created by Brian McGreevy, Lee Shipman, Philipp Meyer
On AMC
A dark, multigenerational saga of cultural collision and family legacy that traces one man's violent transformation across two timelines in the American frontier.
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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