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* AllForNothing: Marshall Cook is passing through La Belle because he is seeking out a cavalry regiment in the area that he hopes to enlist in the fight against Frank Griffin. [[spoiler:This is what allows Frank to set an ambush for Cook and kill him]]. When Sheriff [=McNue=] finally tracks down the regiment, they directly refuse to help because they're more concerned with tracking and fighting Sitting Bull.
* BiTheWay: Maggie [=McNue=] loved her husband dearly when he was alive and misses him still, but since he's dead she sees no reason to put her own life on hold and begins a new relationship with Callie Dunne.
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* CloudCuckooLander: John Doe, the only survivor of the mining accident, has been left touched in the head. Nobody knows his real name -- it was his first day in the town and everybody he had been introduced to died in the accident -- and he is often stuck repeating the phrase "What's all this then"?
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* CloudCuckooLander: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: John Doe, the only survivor of the mining accident, has been left touched in the head. Nobody knows his real name -- it was his first day in the town and everybody he had been introduced to died in the accident -- and he is often stuck repeating the phrase "What's all this then"?
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* DeathByChildbirth: [=McNue=]'s wife died giving birth to their daughter Trudy. At her grave in the first episode, Bill admits that though he's trying, [[MaternalDeathBlameTheChild he cannot forgive Trudy for killing her.]]
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* {{Homage}}: The first season ends with a replication of the ending to the classic western ''Film/{{Shane}}'' as Roy (Shane, a gunfighter) rides off from the now-quiet town to leave them to their own lives. While the film left it a question of what happened to Shane after he rode off, the series follows Roy so we see where he winds up.
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* MagicalNativeAmerican: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] almost to the point of parody. Sheriff [=McNue=] keeps encountering one Shoshone man who claims he is just out hunting, but he makes all sorts of cryptic references about [=McNue=]'s life and follows him no matter where he travels. Eventually [=McNue=] begins to wonder if he is hallucinating the entire thing, only to be relieved when Roy says that he, too, can see the Shoshone man...until Roy explains that he was with him a few months back and the Shoshone man ''died''. The sequence ends with [=McNue=] wondering if he's been seeing a ghost all along, or if Roy is just messing with him.
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* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: Bill [=McNue=] confesses at his wife's grave in the first episode that he cannot forgive their daughter for killing her [[DeathByChildbirth when she was born]].
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* OddFriendship: Alice Fletcher isn't friends with anybody in the town, but she has the most civil relationship with Connie Dunne, the current schoolmarm and former prostitute. It seems that Connie reaches out to her because she understands what it's like to be ostracized.
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* TheScapegoat: Alice Fletcher is blamed for all the town's misfortunes. They claim she put a curse on them which lead to the mining accident, and that she uses her connections with the Paiute to get them to cause problems for the town.
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* AnimalMotif: Bees for Frank Griffin. They are often seen swarming around him -- and especially his severed arm -- and other characters encounter them when following/discussing Frank.
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* BanditClan: Frank Griffin leads a crew of over thirty men to terrorize the region.
* CapturedOnPurpose: Roy freely admits who he is to Sherriff [=McNue=] and goes willingly with him to prison.
* ChurchgoingVillain: Frank Griffin is a God fearing man who preaches the book and stops to attend to the dying sick. He will also ride his horse into a church and threaten the entire congregation with a grisly death if they harbor his enemies.
* CloudCuckooLander: John Doe, the only survivor of the mining accident, has been left touched in the head.
* CapturedOnPurpose: Roy freely admits who he is to Sherriff [=McNue=] and goes willingly with him to prison.
* ChurchgoingVillain: Frank Griffin is a God fearing man who preaches the book and stops to attend to the dying sick. He will also ride his horse into a church and threaten the entire congregation with a grisly death if they harbor his enemies.
* CloudCuckooLander: John Doe, the only survivor of the mining accident, has been left touched in the head.
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* BanditClan: Frank Griffin leads a crew of over thirty men to terrorize the region.
region. His ''modus operandi'' seems to be to find children/young adults with family issues and raise them as his "sons" in the gang.
* CapturedOnPurpose: Roy freely admits who he is to Sherriff [=McNue=] and goes willingly with him toprison.
prison. He doesn't have some sort of scheme going on though, he is just turning himself in.
* ChurchgoingVillain: Frank Griffinis a God fearing man who preaches the book bible and stops to attend to the dying sick. sick, even claiming to be a preacher, but in one ranting speech says that there is not actually a god (Or at least not in this territory). He will takes offense to people blasphemously swearing, but is also willing to ride his horse into a church and threaten the entire congregation with a grisly death if they harbor his enemies.
congregation.
* CloudCuckooLander: John Doe, the only survivor of the mining accident, has been left touched in the head. Nobody knows his real name -- it was his first day in the town and everybody he had been introduced to died in the accident -- and he is often stuck repeating the phrase "What's all this then"?
* CapturedOnPurpose: Roy freely admits who he is to Sherriff [=McNue=] and goes willingly with him to
* ChurchgoingVillain: Frank Griffin
* CloudCuckooLander: John Doe, the only survivor of the mining accident, has been left touched in the head. Nobody knows his real name -- it was his first day in the town and everybody he had been introduced to died in the accident -- and he is often stuck repeating the phrase "What's all this then"?
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* ForeseeingMyDeath: Frank is constantly claiming to have foreseen his own death and is fearless in situations that appear to be his end. He will calmly tell people "I have seen my end, and this ain't it."
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: While not explicitly mentioned, it is clear the people of La Belle were uneasy with Alice's second husband being Native American, and people often give Truckee a sideways look when they find out the very native looking boy is Alice's son.
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: While not explicitly mentioned, it is clear the people of La Belle were uneasy with Alice's second husband being Native American, and people often give Truckee a sideways look when they find out the very native looking boy is Alice's son.
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* ForeseeingMyDeath: Frank is constantly claiming to have foreseen his own death and is fearless in situations that appear to be his end. He will calmly tell people "I have seen my end, and this ain't it."
" [[spoiler:When he tries it one last time after having been shot by Roy, [[SubvertedTrope Roy tells him that he saw wrong and blows his brains out]].]]
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: While not explicitly mentioned, it is clear the people of La Belle were uneasy with Alice's second husband being Native American, and people often give Truckee a sideways look when they find out the very native looking boy is Alice's son. When Roy once claims that Truckee is ''his'' son to defuse a situation, Logan sarcastically remarks that he and the boy's mother must make a handsome couple.
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: While not explicitly mentioned, it is clear the people of La Belle were uneasy with Alice's second husband being Native American, and people often give Truckee a sideways look when they find out the very native looking boy is Alice's son. When Roy once claims that Truckee is ''his'' son to defuse a situation, Logan sarcastically remarks that he and the boy's mother must make a handsome couple.
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* {{Schoolmarm}}: Connie is the current schoolteacher, but she used to be one of the town whores working the brothel. After the mine accident the brothel closed down, and she fell into teaching instead.
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* CapturedOnPurpose: Roy freely admits who he is to Sherriff [=McNue=] and goes willingly with him to prison.
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* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: The second Frank finds out he has a Marshall on his tail, he sets a trap and takes Cook out.]]
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* TheAtoner: Roy is trying to make good of his life now that he has rejected Frank.
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* CloudCuckooLander: John Doe, the only survivor of the mining accident, has been left touched in the head.
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* TheLostLenore: Sherriff [~McNue's~] wife, who died giving birth to their second child. He has fallen apart since her death and can't even love his daughter for "killing" her mother.
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* TheLostLenore: Sherriff [~McNue's~] [=McNue's=] wife, who died giving birth to their second child. He has fallen apart since her death and can't even love his daughter for "killing" her mother.
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* TheLostLenore: Sherriff McNue's wife, who died giving birth to their second child. He has fallen apart since her death and can't even love his daughter for "killing" her mother.
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* TheLostLenore: Sherriff McNue's [~McNue's~] wife, who died giving birth to their second child. He has fallen apart since her death and can't even love his daughter for "killing" her mother.
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* MalignedMixedMarriage:
** The people of La Belle were clearly uncomfortable with Alice's second husband being Native American. She blames his death on these prejudices.
** Whitey falls in love with Louise from the neighboring black settlement. When her father figures out that Whitey has much more interest in her than music lessons, he is not having it.
** The people of La Belle were clearly uncomfortable with Alice's second husband being Native American. She blames his death on these prejudices.
** Whitey falls in love with Louise from the neighboring black settlement. When her father figures out that Whitey has much more interest in her than music lessons, he is not having it.
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* ForeseeingMyDeath: Frank is constantly claiming to have foreseen his own death and is fearless in situations that appear to be his end. He will calmly tell people "I have seen my end, and this ain't it.
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* ForeseeingMyDeath: Frank is constantly claiming to have foreseen his own death and is fearless in situations that appear to be his end. He will calmly tell people "I have seen my end, and this ain't it."
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: While not explicitly mentioned, it is clear the people of La Belle were uneasy with Alice's second husband being Native American, and people often give Truckee a sideways look when they find out the very native looking boy is Alice's son.
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: While not explicitly mentioned, it is clear the people of La Belle were uneasy with Alice's second husband being Native American, and people often give Truckee a sideways look when they find out the very native looking boy is Alice's son.
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* CoolOldLady: Iyovi. While she initially appears to be a superstitious old nag, she slowly reveals her coolness as she warms up to Roy. When Roy expresses how impressed he was that she shot out the eye of her target on their hunting trip, she wryly responds that she was aiming for the ''other'' eye.
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* CreepyTwins: The Devlin brothers, Donnie and Daryl, grin and giggle while participating in the worst of the gang's crimes. In a flashback we learn that they slaughtered their entire family and claimed it was done by "savages". Frank takes them in as sons with full knowledge of their actions.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Callie is the resident madam, who has also been bankrolling the town since the mine closed down and runs the school.
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* ForeseeingMyDeath: Frank is constantly claiming to have foreseen his own death and is fearless in situations that appear to be his end. He will calmly tell people "I have seen my end, and this ain't it.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Callie is the resident madam, who has also been bankrolling the town since the mine closed down and runs theschool. school.
* KnifeNut: Dyer Howe of Frank's gang wields several knives and is shown throwing them to deadly effect. He carries a pistol but is never shown using it.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Callie is the resident madam, who has also been bankrolling the town since the mine closed down and runs the
* KnifeNut: Dyer Howe of Frank's gang wields several knives and is shown throwing them to deadly effect. He carries a pistol but is never shown using it.
* RapeAsBackstory: Alice Fletcher's experience after the sudden death of her first husband.
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* WorldOfActionGirls: La Belle is an enforced version of this. With no men to take up the job and living on the edge of the frontier, the already capable frontierswomen have become even more formidable.
* KnifeNut: Dyer Howe of Frank's gang wears several knives and is shown throwing them to deadly effect. He carries a pistol but is never shown using it.
* ForeseeingMyDeath: Frank is constantly claiming to have foreseen his own death and is fearless in situations that appear to be his end. Ultimately subverted at the end when he is still denying that this is how he dies up to the point we see the bullet enter and exit his head.
* CreepyTwins: The Devlin brothers, Donnie and Daryl, grin and giggle while participating in the worst of the gang's crimes. In a flashback we learn that they slaughtered their entire family and claimed it was done by "savages". Frank takes them in as sons with full knowledge of their actions.
* RapeAsBackstory: Alice Fletcher
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Floyd Wilson is this for the Griffin Gang.
* KnifeNut: Dyer Howe of Frank's gang wears several knives and is shown throwing them to deadly effect. He carries a pistol but is never shown using it.
* ForeseeingMyDeath: Frank is constantly claiming to have foreseen his own death and is fearless in situations that appear to be his end. Ultimately subverted at the end when he is still denying that this is how he dies up to the point we see the bullet enter and exit his head.
* CreepyTwins: The Devlin brothers, Donnie and Daryl, grin and giggle while participating in the worst of the gang's crimes. In a flashback we learn that they slaughtered their entire family and claimed it was done by "savages". Frank takes them in as sons with full knowledge of their actions.
* RapeAsBackstory: Alice Fletcher
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Floyd Wilson is this for the Griffin Gang.
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* WorldOfActionGirls: La Belle is an enforced version of this. With no men to take up the job and living on the edge of the frontier, the already capable frontierswomen have become even more formidable.
* KnifeNut: Dyer Howe of Frank's gang wears several knives and is shown throwing them to deadly effect. He carries a pistol but is never shown using it.
* ForeseeingMyDeath: Frank is constantly claiming to have foreseen his own death and is fearless in situations that appear to be his end. Ultimately subverted at the end when he is still denying that this is how he dies up to the point we see the bullet enter and exit his head.
* CreepyTwins: The Devlin brothers, Donnie and Daryl, grin and giggle while participating in the worst of the gang's crimes. In a flashback we learn that they slaughtered their entire family and claimed it was done by "savages". Frank takes them in as sons with full knowledge of their actions.
* RapeAsBackstory: Alice Fletcher
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Floyd Wilson is this for the Griffin Gang.formidable.
* KnifeNut: Dyer Howe of Frank's gang wears several knives and is shown throwing them to deadly effect. He carries a pistol but is never shown using it.
* ForeseeingMyDeath: Frank is constantly claiming to have foreseen his own death and is fearless in situations that appear to be his end. Ultimately subverted at the end when he is still denying that this is how he dies up to the point we see the bullet enter and exit his head.
* CreepyTwins: The Devlin brothers, Donnie and Daryl, grin and giggle while participating in the worst of the gang's crimes. In a flashback we learn that they slaughtered their entire family and claimed it was done by "savages". Frank takes them in as sons with full knowledge of their actions.
* RapeAsBackstory: Alice Fletcher
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Floyd Wilson is this for the Griffin Gang.
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* ForeseeingMyDeath: Frank is constantly claiming to have foreseen his own death and is fearless in situations that appear to be his end. Ultimately subverted at the end when he is still denying that this is how he dies up to the point we see the bullet enter and exit his head.head.
* CreepyTwins: The Devlin brothers, Donnie and Daryl, grin and giggle while participating in the worst of the gang's crimes. In a flashback we learn that they slaughtered their entire family and claimed it was done by "savages". Frank takes them in as sons with full knowledge of their actions.
* RapeAsBackstory: Alice Fletcher
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Floyd Wilson is this for the Griffin Gang.
* CreepyTwins: The Devlin brothers, Donnie and Daryl, grin and giggle while participating in the worst of the gang's crimes. In a flashback we learn that they slaughtered their entire family and claimed it was done by "savages". Frank takes them in as sons with full knowledge of their actions.
* RapeAsBackstory: Alice Fletcher
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Floyd Wilson is this for the Griffin Gang.
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* KnifeNut: One of Frank's gang wears several knives and is shown throwing them to deadly effect. He carries a pistol but is never shown using it.
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* WorldOfActionGirls: La Belle is an enforced version of this. With no men to take up the job and living on the edge of the frontier, the already capable frontierswomen have become even more formidable.
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* WorldOfActionGirls: La Belle is an enforced version of this. With no men to take up the job and living on the edge of the frontier, the already capable frontierswomen have become even more formidable.formidable.
*KnifeNut: One of Frank's gang wears several knives and is shown throwing them to deadly effect. He carries a pistol but is never shown using it.
*ForeseeingMyDeath: Frank is constantly claiming to have foreseen his own death and is fearless in situations that appear to be his end. Ultimately subverted at the end when he is still denying that this is how he dies up to the point we see the bullet enter and exit his head.
*KnifeNut: One of Frank's gang wears several knives and is shown throwing them to deadly effect. He carries a pistol but is never shown using it.
*ForeseeingMyDeath: Frank is constantly claiming to have foreseen his own death and is fearless in situations that appear to be his end. Ultimately subverted at the end when he is still denying that this is how he dies up to the point we see the bullet enter and exit his head.
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* ChurchgoingVillain: Frank Griffin rides into a church to make his threats to the town.
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* ChurchgoingVillain: Frank Griffin rides is a God fearing man who preaches the book and stops to attend to the dying sick. He will also ride his horse into a church to make and threaten the entire congregation with a grisly death if they harbor his threats to the town.enemies.
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* ThatManIsDead: Whitey says there is no way "Ward" is the same man on Roy Goode's wanted poster because that man was "one to do the hurtin."
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Callie is the resident madam, who has also been bankrolling the town since the mine closed down and runs the school.
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** Frank was raised by the man who slaughtered his family.
** Frank adopted Roy as a youngboy.boy and raised him in the same ruthless fashion.
** Roy breaks the cycle, becoming a positive figure for Truckee.
** Frank was raised by the man who slaughtered his family.
** Frank adopted Roy as a young
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* DeterminedWidow: Twice-widowed Alice runs a homestead and raises her son with only the help of her elderly Mother-in-law.
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* BanditClan: Frank Griffin leads a crew of over thirty men to terrorize the region.
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* HiddenDepths: Boastful, gun obsessed Whitey sneaks off to get violin lessons from Louise, whom he's obviously sweet on.
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* LadyLand: Downplayed in that there are men in the town, but after the mine collapse killed their husbands the town's mostly run by women.
* ResignationsNotAccepted: The plot kicks off when Roy breaks from the other outlaws, and his ex-partner and father figure Frank starts hunting him down.
* ResignationsNotAccepted: The plot kicks off when Roy breaks from the other outlaws, and his ex-partner and father figure Frank starts hunting him down.
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* LadyLand: Downplayed in that there are some men in the town, La Belle, but after the mine collapse killed their husbands the town's mostly run by women.
* NoMansLand: Both figuratively and literally; the frontier is harsh, La Belle is mostly inhabited by women.
* ParentalSubstitute: Frank adopted Roy as a young boy.
* ResignationsNotAccepted: The plot kicks off when Roybreaks from the other outlaws, and his ex-partner and father figure gets fed up with Frank starts and runs away from their outlaw band, and they start hunting him down.down leading him to take refuge in La Belle.
* NoMansLand: Both figuratively and literally; the frontier is harsh, La Belle is mostly inhabited by women.
* ParentalSubstitute: Frank adopted Roy as a young boy.
* ResignationsNotAccepted: The plot kicks off when Roy
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* ChurchgoingVillain: Frank Griffin rides into a church to make his threats to the town.
* LadyLand: Downplayed in that there are men in the town, but after the mine collapse killed their husbands the town's mostly run by women.
* ResignationsNotAccepted: The plot kicks off when Roy breaks from the other outlaws, and his ex-partner and father figure Frank starts hunting him down.
* WorldOfActionGirls: La Belle is an enforced version of this. With no men to take up the job and living on the edge of the frontier, the already capable frontierswomen have become even more formidable.
* ChurchgoingVillain: Frank Griffin rides into a church to make his threats to the town.
* LadyLand: Downplayed in that there are men in the town, but after the mine collapse killed their husbands the town's mostly run by women.
* ResignationsNotAccepted: The plot kicks off when Roy breaks from the other outlaws, and his ex-partner and father figure Frank starts hunting him down.
* WorldOfActionGirls: La Belle is an enforced version of this. With no men to take up the job and living on the edge of the frontier, the already capable frontierswomen have become even more formidable.
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''Godless'' is a [=2017=] Creator/{{Netflix}} Western limited series. It stars CreatorJeffDaniels, Creator/JeffDaniels, [[Series/DowntonAbbey Michelle Dockery]] and Creator/JackOConnell.
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''Godless'' is a [=2017=] Creator/{{Netflix}} Western limited series. It stars Jeff Daniels, CreatorJeffDaniels, [[Series/DowntonAbbey Michelle Dockery Dockery]] and Jack O'Connell.
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''Godless'' is a [=2017=] Creator/{{Netflix}} Western limited series. It stars Jeff Daniels, Michelle Dockery and Jack O'Connell.
All seven episodes were released globally on 22nd November.
''Godless'' contains examples of the following tropes:
All seven episodes were released globally on 22nd November.
''Godless'' contains examples of the following tropes:
