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Trust

★ 7.5 9K votes 2018–2018 1 season · 10 episodes Ended FX
Elites & privilegeThe rich and powerful, glamorous or rotten.This show: 9/10Stylized directionBold, signature formal choices.This show: 8/10Event miniseriesPrestige limited television built as an event.This show: 8/10Family sagaBonds and fractures across generations of one family.This show: 8/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 8/10CynicalDeeply distrustful of institutions and human motives.This show: 7/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 7/10Tight limited runA compact, complete story told in just a few episodes.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Harris DickinsonDonald SutherlandHilary SwankLuca MarinelliAnna ChancellorBrendan Fraser
Written by
Simon Beaufoy
Starring
Harris DickinsonDonald SutherlandHilary SwankLuca MarinelliAnna ChancellorBrendan Fraser
Written by
Simon Beaufoy
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
0200400600800

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About

"Old money, cruelty, and a very slow ransom"

Trust dramatizes the 1973 kidnapping of teenage John Paul Getty III and the miserly refusal of his billionaire grandfather to pay ransom. It's a lavish, theatrical take on old-money rot, jumping between Italy's criminal underworld and the Getty family's gilded dysfunction. The pace is deliberate and stylized, closer to a dark fable than a procedural thriller, with an unreliable-narrator gimmick and heavy visual flourish courtesy of Danny Boyle's involvement. It lives or dies on its performances, especially a scene-stealing Donald Sutherland as the family patriarch, rather than on tension or plot momentum.

Watch it for

Donald Sutherland's chilling, darkly funny performance as a billionaire who values money over blood.

Maybe skip if

you want a tense, fast-moving kidnapping thriller rather than a stylized family psychodrama.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12018
7.84K109h 8m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1The House of Getty7.9
70264 min
▶2Lone Star7.9
50662 min
▶3La Dolce Vita7.6
43156 min
▶4That's All Folks!7.6
37257 min
▶5Silenzio7.9
36448 min
▶6John, Chapter 117.9
34359 min
▶7Kodachrome7.7
30154 min
▶8In the Name of the Father8.0
33646 min
▶9White Car in a Snowstorm8.1
32052 min
▶10Consequences7.7
30450 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Harris Dickinson J. Paul Getty III
Donald Sutherland J. Paul Getty
Hilary Swank Gail Getty
Luca Marinelli Primo
Anna Chancellor Penelope Kittson, Penelope
Brendan Fraser Fletcher Chace
Silas Carson Khan
Michael Esper J. Paul Getty Jr.
Francesco Colella Leonardo
Mauro Lamanna Dante

Crew

Simon Beaufoy

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