Scripted series · AMC
The Son
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Pierce Brosnan
Eli McCullough
20 eps
Henry Garrett
Pete McCullough
10 eps
Jacob Lofland
Young Eli McCullough
20 eps
Zahn McClarnon
Toshaway
20 eps
Elizabeth Frances
Prairie Flower
10 eps
Carlos Bardem
Pedro García
20 eps
Paola Nuñez
Maria García
10 eps
James Parks
Niles Gilbert
20 eps
Sydney Lucas
Jeannie McCullough
20 eps
Jess Weixler
Sally McCullough
10 eps
David Wilson Barnes
Phineas McCullough
10 eps
Sean Alan Stone
Louis
10 eps
Ryan Lee
James Greenhorn
2 eps
Elizabeth Tabish
Natalia McCullough
1 eps
Thomas E. Sullivan
Judson Merril
1 eps
Tommy G. Kendrick
Clarence Hartley
1 eps
Tristan Riggs
Party Child (uncredited)
1 eps
Dennis Allyn
Buffalo Hunter (uncredited)
1 eps
Bruce Davison
ENDICOTT
1 eps
Wendy Crewson
Ingrid
2 eps
Kathryn Prescott
Young Ingrid
14 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Son actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Son reads strongest on Character Depth, Emotional Weight and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
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.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Wes BrownWriter
Direction
- Kevin DowlingDirector
- Tom VaughanDirector
Music
- Nathan BarrOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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