A Western series that takes up the myth of one of the greatest gunslingers of the Wild West has been streaming in this country for a year, but has flown under the radar until now.
After the end of the Vikings hit Vikings, series creator Michael Hirst looked for his next historical project. He landed on one of the most notorious outlaws the Wild West had to offer: the gunslinger Billy the Kid. The western series has also been available to stream in Germany for almost a year. So far, however, it has flown under the radar
Billy the Kid on stream: Western epic with new Hunger Games star Tom Blyth
As the child of Irish emigrants, William H. Bonney (Tom Blyth) arrives on the American continent in the western series. But life in his new homeland is full of challenges and his talent with a gun allows the boy to grow into a cowboy who can bring death to his enemies. On the frontier, he eventually becomes embroiled in the Lincoln County Cattle War, which spreads his nickname as a gunslinger like wildfire: Billy the Kid.
Watch the trailer for the western series Billy the Kid with Tom Blyth here
In the run-up to the show, Vikings creator Michael Hirst declared that he was “prouder of his series Billy the Kid than anything I’ve done before”. He wanted to take the character, who everyone thought they knew as a gunman and killer, and show him from a completely new angle, telling the “story of a violent man with a moral compass”. He snapped up Tom Blyth as the main character, even before the British actor achieved greater fame as the young Coriolanus Snow in The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes this year.
Where you can stream the western series Billy the Kid from Vikings creator Michael Hirst
You can stream the entire 1st season of Billy the Kid with all 8 episodes at Paramount+. The first half of season 2 recently aired in the USA and will most likely also be released in Germany by Paramount+
