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A limited prestige miniseries inspired by Blood Meridian, The Meridian follows a nameless teenage drifter known only as the Kid as he is pulled into a brutal scalp-hunting expedition across the 19th-century American Southwest and northern Mexico. As the gang under Glanton moves deeper into a landscape defined by violence, survival, and moral collapse, they encounter a pale, enigmatic figure known as the Judge—an intelligent, unsettling presence who documents, observes, and philosophizes about war, nature, and control. As the journey continues, the line between survival and savagery dissolves, and the world itself begins to feel shaped by unseen logic. Told with stark realism and mythic dread, the series explores humanity stripped of morality in an indifferent frontier where violence is not exception, but law..