The Son

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Season 1
  • Network: AMC
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 8, 2017
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
57

Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
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  1. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Mar 30, 2017
    90
    [A] terrific dynastic saga, a darker-than-dark "Giant" [1956 film directed by George Stevens]. [3-16 Apr 2017, p.19]
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  2. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Apr 5, 2017
    83
    The Son is mostly about a son with two fathers, one white, the other Comanche. He absorbs the soul, spirit and perspective of the latter. It’s a particularly interesting idea and character based on a celebrated book. Here’s hoping the miniseries lives up to the promise. Saturday’s opener suggests that it should.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Lorraine Ali
    Apr 7, 2017
    70
    [Pierce Brosnan's] awkward drawl is one of the most jarring mood-killers in The Son, and those twinkly eyes are often more playful than dangerous. Even though the journey may be a bit bumpy, The Son still offers an easy ride into the Old West.
  5. We Got This Covered
    Reviewed by: Jon Negroni
    Apr 6, 2017
    70
    It’s not a program that can be easily enjoyed through casual viewing and appreciation for the genre, but rather, it begs itself to be taken seriously, much in the same way its own book sparked stressful conversations through its tale of a family dynasty in the making. For that reason, The Son might not be for everyone.
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Darren Franich
    Mar 13, 2017
    67
    The Son will rise--if it can live up to its ambitions, if it can more convincingly explain how young Eli on the frontier became old Eli at the dawn of civilization, and if it can be even half as wild as the West it wants to explore.
  7. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Robert Rorke
    Apr 7, 2017
    63
    Without a great authoritative figure to lift the entire piece to a mythic level, The Son may have been better off in book form--where readers can imagine the Texas described in its pages.

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User Score
6.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 36 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 36
  3. Negative: 9 out of 36
  1. JorgeLestre
    Apr 9, 2017
    3
    'The Son' is really tedious and despite some interesting violent scenes it actually is a bit racist and mean, The dialogues also are terrible'The Son' is really tedious and despite some interesting violent scenes it actually is a bit racist and mean, The dialogues also are terrible despite Pierce Brosnan's acceptable performance.… Full Review »
  2. Sharonk
    Apr 9, 2017
    0
    the acting was good. The scenery, and filming was good. What i thought was too excessive was the profanity, and constant anger. At the ratethe acting was good. The scenery, and filming was good. What i thought was too excessive was the profanity, and constant anger. At the rate Eli is stringing up people there won't be anyone left in Texas.… Full Review »
  3. billycat
    Jul 21, 2018
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. A series Trumpsters will love! I only watched this because I like Pierce Bronson. First, the series is historically inaccurate. After the Texas war with Mexico the state of Texas had, and still does, have a hateful view of Mexicans. Historically all Mexican ranchers were terrorized (rape, murder, fire, etc) off their land by Texas Rangers. So that within in few years no Mexicans had retained their lands.

    However, "The Son" has a rather prosperous Mexican ranch owning family who are friends and allies to the Elijah's family. Even after Elijah's family kills Cesar, a member of that prosperous Mexican family. It gets better! The sister in law of the murdered Cesar tips off Elijah's son about other Mexicans doing harm. Even though those very Mexicans helped her father prosper. And the best part is that after Elijah's people glorify the killing of Mexicans and encounter their comeuppance, that prosperous Mexican family rides in to save Elijah's family. Now remember it was Elijah's family who tortured and murdered Cesar, the son in law of their Mexican allies..

    Now I don't know what racist or sell out Latino wrote this piece of garbage, but it's horrible! It's insulting to Mexicans and Latinos overall. I watched it because I wanted to see how they young Elijah did with the Comanche's. Also I was in disbelief that in 2017 a cable tv network would make somethings so vulgarly historically inaccurate and so bigoted in it s portrayal of Mexicans. They might as well have name this series "Sellout Mexicans of Old" or "Tio Tacos of Texas" or "How Mexicans Betray Mexicans" or "Good Mexicans Enable Hate Crime". Or how about, "Now Why Can't All Mexicans Be Like This, A Bigot's Tale!", or maybe they should name it, "How to Mass Murder Mexicans and Get Away with It".

    My guess is that whoever made this series is Trump supporter. I'm not a big AMC fan. I've only watched it for McMafia. But I'm pretty sure I'm writing AMC off as trash.    … Full Review »
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