This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Blistering performances.

Ok, let me get this off my chest. I don't stare at the TV, hanging on every utterance every glance and every facial expression. So I don't do well with some of these modern directing styles where the viewer has to dedicate themselves to studying the details of each moment of film. Having said that I still think this needed a narrator. I couldn't follow a damn thing until I started reading reviews. Once I did understand what was going on I was even more bored than before. Blech. If you want entertainment, find something else. If you want to study something as if there will be a final on it, you'll love this show.

I just saw the entire series over the last two days...The show shows different perspectives of the people in that region. Knowing that history as I do, it's a fair representation. Pondering what it must have been like to ward off an Indian attack. Or, moving about in hostile territory. Fighting and conquering and taking what you want. It was a very important time for the west, the actions taken in those days are still influencing these days more than a century later. All the actors do a great job in their roles and the action is very believable...A good job by AMC to bring a top quality show...I look forward to more seasons. Watch it; it's very entertaining.

If you're reading this maybe your like me and your late to the party too! For whatever reason I held off on this show. Maybe it's because none of the reviews really sold me or I just simply put it off. HUGE MISTAKE! In hindsight best mistake, because I was just granted the luck of watching the best 8 hours of pure brilliance and all the while I kept asking myself, how is this series not a massive, massive hit! It's like a watching a great old fashion novel. I'm not writing this to tell you what it's about, no I'm writing this to sell you this series like I wish could have been done for me. There's flashbacks to the main character to his earlier years where he's held captive and it reminds me of dances with wolves in essence, and I literally yearn for the Flashbacks. Zahn McClarnon from Fargo season 2, plays an incredible part in the flashbacks as young Eli's captor, but what that relationship becomes is a prize to watch unfold. Both timelines are so fascinating and captivating that each one can have its own TV series! each timelines plot is so stunning and stellar and the way they both intertwine is beautiful. That's the only flaw with this series is I don't want to leave a particular time period because the story is told so richly. When we leave 1850 to return to 1915, I yearn for the earlier time period. It's absolutely riveting and captivating! This series has every key ingredient to mold a masterpiece of a series! pierce brosnan is incredible as well as the additional cast! so prepare yourself for a binging experience like no other! so whatever your doing right now stop and watch The Son! You'll thank me

I was enjoying this series until there was a major deviation from the book, which I had read previously. In the book Eli McCullough, the male members of his family, as well as a bunch of Texas Rangers and neighbours (70 in all), in an act of bloodthirsty vengeance, annihilated the whole family of their Mexican neighbours, women and children included - all because they stole a few cattle and wounded his young son. In the TV series it seems the producers and writers decided that this would not do, fearful their predominately American audience who might turn it off if it didn't show Americans in a positive light. I am particularly dismayed with the writer of the book Philipp Meyer, also an Executive Producer of the show, who probably buckled under the pressure of Showtime executives and others who felt they should change this important element of his book. If they had maintained the integrity of the original story they would have had a powerful and uncompromising series. But as it stands it's a disappointing, whitewashed ghost of the original story.