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The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself: Created by Joe Barton. With Jay Lycurgo, Nadia Parkes, Paul Ready, Isobel Jesper Jones. Caught between two warring clans, the son of a notorious witch responsible for a deadly massacre tries to find his place in the world — and his powers.
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- 2022-10-28
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Network. Netflix. Release. 28 October 2022. (2022-10-28) The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself is a British fantasy drama television series created by Joe Barton, based on the novel Half Bad by Sally Green. [1][2] The series tells the story of Nathan Byrne, a young man discovering his true identity as the illegitimate son of the dangerous witch ...
Nov 16, 2022 · Isobel Jesper Jones as Jessica Byrn. Jessica, Nathan's half-sister. (Image credit: Teddy Cavendish/Netflix) Isobel Jesper Jones plays Nathan's half-sister, Isobel. The pair were both raised by their maternal Grandmother after the death of their mother, but do not share a father. The Bastard Son and The Devil Himself is Isobel's first major role ...
- Martin Shore
- Jay Lycurgo as Nathan Byrne
- Nadia Parkes as Annalise O'Brien
- Emilien Vekemans as Gabriel
- Isobel Jesper Jones as Jessica Byrne
- Karen Connell as Ceelia
- Paul Ready as Soul O'Brien
- Kerry Fox as Esmie
- David Gyasi as Marcus Edge
- Róisín Murphy as Mercury
Jay Lycurgo's portrayal of Nathan Byrne is emotionally captivating. He starts out as a boy who just wants to be accepted by his community but is pushed past his breaking point by people who claim to have his best interest in mind. This boy is made to hate himself due to a legacy imprinted on him, and in the beginning, he seems to have no one he can...
Nadia Parkes plays Annalise O'Brien, the love interest (one of them, that is). Annalise was raised with the indoctrination that Fairborns are good, Blood witches are bad. But she sees Nathan for who he is and doesn't allow others to sway her opinion. Her dad, Soul O'Brien, the head of the Fairborn Council Protection Unit, does things that make Anna...
Emilien Vekemans, an actor and director known for Zoufs (2015) and Transferts(2017), plays the other love interest, Gabriel. Gabriel, with his movie star good looks, is a loner boy alchemist who leaves a trail of broken hearts behind him wherever he goes. He is a blood witch who works for a more prominent blood witch, Mercury, and he leads a life o...
Isobel Jesper Jones, who is set to appear in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songs and Snakesas Mayfair Lipp, does a very convincing job portraying Nathan's bloodthirsty half-sister, the Fairborn witch and Blood witch hunter Jessica Byrne. Jessica has blamed Nathan for their mother's death all his life. She's also been the target of nasty comments ...
Ceelia has monitored Nathan for signs of Blood witch tendencies his entire life. When events heat up, Ceelia cools them down with her power to freeze. She trains Nathan for combat and soon becomes the closest thing he has to family. When things turn on their head, it is Ceelia who sees things for what they are and not just for what she's been told....
Paul Ready plays Soul O'Brien, Executive Administrator for the Fairborn Council Protection Unit. His insecurities about his power lead to a power-hungry quest for vengeance. In the end, Soul just wants to prove himself. He inherited the power to grow plants, and that wasn't good enough. So, he kills a lot of people, many of them close to him, to be...
Kerry Fox plays Nathan and Jessica's maternal grandmother, Esmie. While she's only in four episodes, she has been the biggest influence on Nathan's sense of self. She does everything she can to protect her grandson and does not approve of Jessica's or anyone else's negative treatment of him. Esmie was the only real family Nathan had, and by introdu...
David Gyasi plays the elusive and notorious Marcus Edge, Nathan's father. He is the most disreputable Blood witch, personally hunted because of the Wolfhagen Peace Massacre in which he single-handedly slaughtered most of the high-ranking members of the Fairborn Council. But Marcus' story is not as it seems. The Fairborns propagate this dak myth tha...
Róisín Murphy is the Blood witch Mercury, a trickster character with a penchant for owning people and a knack for getting anyone anything they may need. There's a good reason why Nathan's grandmother was reluctant to call on Mercury for help. She can not be trusted. It seems as if Mercury plays the game just to cause chaos. Her only real pleasure c...
Oct 28, 2022 · Developed by Giri/Haji 's Joe Barton and executive produced by Andy Serkis, The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself features a stellar cast, from Motherland's Paul Ready to Life on Mars star Liz White ...
The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself is a British fantasy-drama television series based on the Half Bad trilogy by Sally Green. The series was created by Joe Barton and was released on Netflix on 28 October 2022. The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself Fandom After being discovered as an illegitimate son of the "World's Most Dangerous Blood Witch", Marcus Edge, 16-year-old Nathan Byrn was monitored ...
