Should you watch Prodigal Son?
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Prodigal Son
Series · 2019
The son of a notorious serial killer becomes an acclaimed criminal psychologist who uses his unique insight into how killers think to help the NYPD.
The sides of Prodigal Son
- A profiler whose father is a serial killer
- A father known as The Surgeon
- Murder cases for the NYPD
Prodigal Son is good for you if…
- you like a killer of the week solved by someone who thinks like one.
- you like Michael Sheen as a charming, terrifying father.
- you like family dinners with a murderer played for laughs.
Prodigal Son is bad for you if…
- you can't stand gruesome crime scenes.
- you can't watch a son haunted by night terrors and buried memories of his father's crimes.
About: inherited guilt · fathers and sons · trauma
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