Godless’s season finale is not without merit, though you’ve got to dig deep beneath the mountain of corpses it’s perched on to find it. From the start, creator-writer-director Scott Frank has wielded the bright sun of the show’s Western setting like a gunslinger of light and shadow, and he puts that talent to work…

After a season of buildup, Roy Goode’s past and his present both arrive at their long-foreseen destinations. Godless’s penultimate episode, “Dear Roy…,” takes its title from the letter the gunslinger received from his brother, written years ago but which he’s only able to read now. We hear it through Alice’s voice as…

Clocking in at a second shy of 51 minutes long, “Shot the Head Off a Snake” is the shortest episode of Godless so far, by nearly a 20-minute margin. For better and for worse, it feels even shorter.

Never mind the title,“Fathers & Sons.” This episode of Godless’s present-day action nor the suite of flashbacks that complement it pertain to that relationship. Come to think of it, I’m not sure there’s a single father-and-son moment depicted at all. This just one episode after “Wisdom of the Horse,” which at times…

From its title (“Wisdom of the Horse”) on down, Godless’s third episode is full of horse shit. I don’t mean that it’s bad! I just mean that in terms of story and screentime, it is simply consumed by shit about horses. Roping horses. Breaking horses. Riding horses. Falling off horses. Getting back on horses. Searching…

Frank Griffin works best when Godless treats him and his gang not like characters, but as if they’re part of the scenery. From a genre perspective, this works pretty well. Isn’t the unforgiving landscape’s reflection in unforgiving men one of the Western’s core concepts?

Godless has two major factors in its favor: the sun and the stars. The former glares into the mud-caked eyes of Sheriff Bill McNue (Scoot McNairy), a lawman who’s secretly going blind, then shines down on a field where he collects flowers to place on his late wife’s grave with a brightness that echoes his still-warm…

Netflix’s Godless is set in the Old West and follows notorious criminal Frank Griffin (played by Jeff Daniels) and his gang of outlaws on a mission of revenge. To prepare for the show, the cast had to learn how to ride horses and handle guns properly. In the video above, Merritt Wever, who plays Mary Agnes, describes…

Netflix’s Godless is set in the Old West and follows notorious criminal Frank Griffin, played by Jeff Daniels, and his gang of outlaws on a mission of revenge. Earlier this week, we asked Scoot McNairy, who plays sheriff Bill McNue, to give us his five favorite Westerns of all time. Now, Daniels obliges us with the…

Scripted TV usually doesn’t have the luxury of timeliness. Late-night talk shows, sure, maybe the occasional animated satire. But the relevancy of a series like The Handmaid’s Tale is the result of reading the wind, sensing that something, just something, in the air has folks prepped for a cautionary tale about a…

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Netflix’s Godless is set in the Old West and follows notorious criminal Frank Griffin (played by Jeff Daniels) and his gang of outlaws on a mission of revenge. We asked Scoot McNairy, who plays aging sheriff Bill McNue, to give us his five favorite westerns of all-time, which include The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, …

Netflix’s Godless is set in the Old West and follows notorious criminal Frank Griffin (played by Jeff Daniels) and his gang of outlaws on a mission of revenge. We asked the cast—Daniels, Merritt Wever, and Scoot McNairy—if they think they could have made it in the lawless frontier of the Old West.

Netflix’s Godless is set in the Old West and follows notorious criminal Frank Griffin (played by Jeff Daniels) and his gang of outlaws on a mission of revenge. It’s the latest entry in Hollywood’s long history of television and film set in the Old West. In the video above, we asked the cast of Godless—Jeff Daniels,…