7.544 minSeason 1 • Episode 10
LatestSeth and Creeley must confront the truth about their past and figure out a way to survive the rapidly arriving future.
Seth Davenport is masquerading as a small town Iowa preacher in the hopes of starting a full-blown insurrection against the status quo, unaware that an industrialist tycoon has hired a professional strikebreaker to stop the uprising by any means necessary. An epic saga of the secret history of the 1930’s American heartland, chronicling the mythic conflict and bloody struggle between big money and the downtrodden, God and greed, charlatans, and prophets.
Writing
Tony Tost's biblical-meets-hardboiled dialogue slaps weirdly hard.
Acting
Logan Marshall-Green's strikebreaker is terrifyingly charismatic.
Production
Dust Bowl poverty porn that actually respects the era's brutality.
Creator
Tony Tost
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Creator Tony Tost was a PhD candidate in American literature before TV, which explains the Cormac McCarthy-meets-Steinbeck density.
The strikebreaker tactics shown—agent provocateurs, hired thugs, company towns—were directly drawn from 1930s labor wars like the 1932 Ford Hunger March.
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