Lucas Frost, an honest man brought up in a crime family whose only legacy is violence, tries to make his own life with his fiancée, Emma. He is suddenly pulled back into the family business he so despises when his cousin, Eli, perpetrates an armed robbery on a local scrap yard and an innocent life is caught in the crossfire.
Acting
Magnussen finally gets a role worthy of his chaotic energy.
Direction
Powell treats violence like a hereditary disease you can't outrun.
Cinematography
Rust and blood never looked so cinematically married.
Director
John-Michael Powell
Billy Magnussen
Lucas Frost
Alexandra Shipp
Emma
Nick Stahl
Tuck Whitehead
Kate Burton
Darlene Woodley
James Badge Dale
Sid Frost
Ray McKinnon
Walt Frost
Jared Bankens
Eli Frost
Matt Riedy
Ray Frost
Nathaniel Woolsey
Fiddle Frost
Bruce McKinnon
Donny Frost
Damon McKinnis
Bryce Frost
Scott McLean Harrison
Reed Frost
David Ury
Lou Byers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Billy Magnussen and James Badge Dale previously played brothers in a 2019 pilot that never aired, making their fraught chemistry here feel like unfinished business.
The scrap yard setting isn't just atmospheric—it's Powell's visual thesis on how families like the Frosts recycle violence generationally, never discarding it completely.
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