Think DALLAS But Without J.R... Netflix gets Texas Oil Saga THE SON

 

The team behind Netflix's hit Hemlock Grove -a horror series that sprung up as one of the many regarded Netflix originals' along with House of Cards and Orange is the New Black- Brian McGreevy, Lee Shipman, and Michael Connolly are teaming up once again to bring American novelist Philipp Meyer's The Son to Netflix as an original series, Deadline reports.

The Son is a tale that chronicles the rise and fall of Texas oil-family The McCulloughs, which sounds a lot like another famous Texas oil-family, The Ewings; but probably with less sleeping around, back-stabbing, evil-twins, arch enemies that come and go from the dead, and sadly  probably not an entire season that turned out to be a dream the whole time.

Netflix is really stepping up their game with the limited series they have, so expect this to be another sure-fire hit for the on-demand service that has quickly sprung up as an entertainment power-house. 

Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim.

Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanche storm his homestead and take him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to Comanche life, carving a place as the chief's adopted son, and waging war against their enemies, including white men. But when disease, starvation, and overwhelming numbers of armed Americans decimate the tribe, Eli finds himself alone. Neither white nor Indian, civilized or fully wild, he must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong—a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.