We’ve seen Emily Blunt blast her way through an apocalyptic future, through a violent drug war on the Texas/Mexico border, and through an alien invasion. But none of those look quite as dangerous as the deadly frontier she faces in The English, a new Western series coming to Prime Video this November.
In The English, Blunt plays an aristocratic Englishwoman in 1890 who arrives in the West to get revenge on the man she holds responsible for her husband’s death. She’s joined in this land “build on dreams and blood” by a Pawnee ex-cavalry scout played by Twilight actor Chaske Spencer. Also in the solidly British ensemble are Stephen Rea, Valerie Pachner, Rafe Spall, Tom Hughes, Toby Jones, and Ciarán Hinds.
The six-episode series is written and directed by Hugo Blick, known for The Honourable Woman, Black Earth Rising, and Sensitive Skin.
The English hits Amazon Prime Video on November 11th.
An epic chase Western, The English takes the core themes of identity and revenge to tell a uniquely compelling parable on race, power, and love. An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, and a Pawnee ex-cavalry scout, Eli Whipp, come together in 1890 mid-America to cross a violent landscape built on dreams and blood. Both of them have a clear sense of their destiny, but neither is aware that it is rooted in a shared past. They must face increasingly terrifying obstacles that will test them to their limits, physically and psychologically. But as each obstacle is overcome, it draws them closer to their ultimate destination—the new town of Hoxem, Wyoming. It is here, after an investigation by the local sheriff Robert Marshall and young widow Martha Myers into a series of bizarre and macabre unsolved murders, that the full extent of their intertwined history will be truly understood, and they will come face-to-face with the future they must live.
