Fans of AMC’s The Son series have been waiting since the first season’s finale (which aired in June 2017) for the return of the Western drama. We’ve now learned that season two will begin airing on Saturday, April 27th, at 9 PM. There will be 10 episodes once again and, it turns out, those will also be the end of the show. There won’t be a third season.
Here’s the relevant portion of AMC’s press announcement about The Son:
The Son
Saturday, April 27 at 9:00 p.m. ET/8:00 p.m. CT
Based on Philipp Meyer’s New York Times best-selling and Pulitzer Prize finalist novel of the same name, season two of The Son concludes the journey of the iconic “First Son of Texas.” Eli McCullough (Pierce Brosnan) will stop at nothing to secure his legacy against the backdrop of the nascent oil industry of 1917. His tools are deceit, fraud and murder — weapons he wields with the effortless skill of the Comanche warrior he once was.But the biggest challenge he faces will be quelling a civil war under his own roof, triggered by his idealistic son Pete (Henry Garrett). Eli knows the ultimate prize of American dynasty is nearly in his grasp, and time is running out. Meanwhile, in 1851, young Eli (Jacob Lofland) is now married and a respected warrior among the Comanches, but tragedy forces him into a leadership position as the vast Comanche empire crumbles around him. Broadening the scope, a 1988 timeline is introduced, bringing the McCullough saga into the more immediate past. Here, at age 85, Eli’s granddaughter Jeanne Anne McCullough (Lois Smith) is confronted with a long-buried family secret.
The Son is produced by AMC Studios and Sonar Entertainment. Showrunner and writer Kevin Murphy, director Kevin Dowling, author Philipp Meyer, and Sonar Entertainment’s Tom Lesinski and Jenna Santoianni are Executive Producers. In addition to Brosnan, Smith, Garrett and Lofland, the series also stars Paola Núñez, Zahn McClarnon, Jess Weixler, David Wilson Barnes, Sydney Lucas, James Parks, Elizabeth Frances, Shane Graham and Kathryn Prescott.
What do you think? Are you looking forward to watching the second season of The Son TV show on AMC? Are you sorry that there won’t be a third season?
Please complete this story. Best show ever and would have been nice to have an ending. Amazing cast!!
My mother and I are terribly disappointed. One of the best shows we’ve seen in a very long time. We’ll be so sad there won’t be another season!!!
the best show on television . i can’t believe it’s ended. what are you thinking?
Ashamed you finished like that. There was so much that could have been told
I cant believe AMC is cancelling the show, it was awesome while it lasted!
Loved The Son and sorely disappointed that it is ending after the 2nd season with so much left undone or unknown.
I have really enjoyed this program and have been telling everyone how good it is and now it’s cancelled! Very disappointed in AMC!!!!
So the same year the best ever TV show comes to an end, I discover the 2nd best has been cancelled. WTF 2019 the year of the death of good TV
Please give us another season and don’t leave us wondering!!!! I really like this show and hate it when they leave ya hanging just like that!
AMC cancels good shows. It’s what they do.
But they won’t cancel FTWD or TWD. Although that has gone completely off the comic books.
aww man come on AMC The Son is awesome, please reconsider for a season 3, dont throw away one of the best original tv series on TV.
Hate to see it go ,love this show.
Great show. Loved Eli character
Sorry there won’t be a third season. So much missing in the story.
Have been binge viewing this show and just finished watching the last episode of series 2. I’m VERY disappointed there won’t be a series 3. High quality drama with a major part of the story only sketched out.
this show is too good to cancel. I think they have many appealing options to extend this series. People love it.