By Peter White Television Editor SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the season one finale of Prodigal Son. Michael Sheen’s love of the theater – he has played Caligula and Hamlet – and an incredibly lucky slice of timing meant that Fox’s Prodigal Son got the gory end that its creators had always planned.
The first season of the serial killer thriller – Sheen plays ‘The Surgeon’ Martin Whitly – was set to run 22 episodes but due to the Welsh actor’s commitments to tread the boards, creators and showrunners Chris Fedak and Sam Sklaver filmed the final two episodes before they had shot episodes 18 and 19.
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