'No one is born broken. Someone breaks us...'
Along with Bridgeton and The Undoing, the final show I started watching over the holidays was FOX's Prodigal Son. I've heard good things about the series for awhile, but never really had the time to invest. I'm not sure I would have enjoyed the show as much watching it week to week, it was really a show to devour a few episodes at a time.
The primary relationship in Prodigal Son is between Malcom (Tom Payne) and his father Martin. (Michael Sheen). Malcom is a broken, and sleep deprived profiler, still struggling with the trauma of having a serial killer as a father. Payne and Sheen are both exceptional, as is Bellamy Young who plays Malcom's overbearing and complicated mother Jessica.
The show's premise sets up a series of questions, none of which are answered right away. I'm a little over half-way through the first season and we still really know how complicit Malcom and Jessica were in Martin's Crimes. Time will tell, as might the lady in the box who haunts Malcom for much of the season..
I stopped watching The Walking Dead before Tom Payne arrived as Jesus, and think I first intime I saw the talented actor on film was in the 2008 film Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. I make it a point to watch anything featuring Francis McDormand, and Payne had brief nude scene early in the film.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
Payne was 25 when he filmed Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, and 13 years later, he looks basically the same. Sure, there are a few more lines on his face, but he's maintained his slim body, and a youthful vibe seen primarily through his beautiful eyes. yes, Malcom is worn down, but you can still feel his longing and the hope that one day he'll wake up from the nightmare he's been wandering through for so long
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