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It is a series of daily tasks carried out by Malcolm Bright, a psychologist who has the ability to know the killers, and how their minds and daily tasks function accurately. Bright is the best criminal psychologist trying to use his twisted genius to uncover the paths of murderers and criminals. Bright helps NYPD solve crimes through his supernatural talent.
21 April 1969, New Hartford, New York, USA
September 18, 1979 in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
22 April 1960, Queens, New York, USA
16 August 1973, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
31 May 1985, Mineola, Long Island, New York, USA
17 May 1975, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
September 23, 2019
I'd be happy to watch any version of Prodigal Son that was entirely Sheen, Young and Payne sitting around talking... If someone would just send me a weekly cutdown that ditched the rest of the show, this prodigal critic might be convinced to return.
September 23, 2019
There's enough to recommend Prodigal Son, knowing that Fedak and company have the skills to get things right. But the three best reasons to keep watching are Michael Sheen, Michael Sheen and Michael Sheen.
September 23, 2019
The ickiness that pervades network crime shows spills through.
September 23, 2019
Some tonal tweaks could turn this eagerly outrageous crime drama into something enjoyably out there, but for now, it's just the craziest "Silence of the Lambs" knock-off yet.
September 23, 2019
The early going is badly undermined by frequent and hammy flashbacks... The result is a campy tinge that often makes Prodigal Son play like dinner-theater melodrama.
September 20, 2019
It's a program that provides a creepy jolt while never reveling in darkness for its sake -- perpetually asking what it takes, and what it means, to take control of the potential for evil in oneself, and to each day beat it back.
September 20, 2019
Prodigal Son is, at the outset, a dark show that doesn't take its darkness seriously enough.
September 23, 2019
What happens when you cast Michael Sheen as a brilliant psychopath and serial killer then don't use him for more than eight or nine minutes per episode? We spend the other 30 minutes wondering why he isn't onscreen.
September 23, 2019
Prodigal Son is more than several cuts below that Oscar-lauded classic. Still, it's better than chopped liver, of which Dr. Martin Whitly has shown he knows a thing or two.
September 23, 2019
The best moments, naturally, occur in the scenes between the manipulative, wily Martin and his brilliant but neurotic offspring, who's haunted by a lingering mystery from when he helped put his dad away
