Blu-ray Release: Prodigal Son: Season One

Blu-ray Release Date: Available now
Price: Blu-ray $34.99
Studio: Warner


Tom Payne stars in the TV crime drama Prodigal Son: The Complete First Season, which follows criminal psychologist Malcolm Bright as he uses his twisted genius to get inside the minds of murderers to help the NYPD solve cases.

Bright (Payne) knows how killers think and how their minds work. Why? His father is “The Surgeon,” a serial killer who has taken the lives of more than 20 people. He works with NYPD detective Gil Arroyo (Lou Diamond Phillips, La Bamba); Detective Dani Powell (Aurora Perrineau), a headstrong cop; Dr. Edrisa Tanaka (Keiko Agena), an off-center coroner; and Detective JT Tarmel (Frank Harts), who questions whether Bright is a psychopath himself. But Bright’s best resource is his homicidal yet oddly loving father, Dr. Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen, Beautiful Boy). As he helps track down dangerous criminals, Bright also battles his own demons – and it doesn’t help that his mother, former leading socialite Jessica Whitly (Bellamy Young), has an opinion on every aspect of his life…

Though it was well-liked by audiences—it received an 86% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes—the Fox Entertainment series ran for only one season, ending this past April.

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