USA ‘Damnation’ Season 1 Premiere Spoilers: Episode 1 Synopsis, Trailer Revealed

Most fall TV premieres might’ve been in September and October, but there are still a few left to come in November. One of them is USA’s “Damnation,” which debuts Tuesday night after “WWE Smackdown!” airs.

Created by Tony Tost, who was also a producer and writer on “Longmire,” the new series is “an epic saga about the secret history of the 1930’s American heartland,” according to its official summary, and follows “the mythic conflict and bloody struggle between big money and the downtrodden, God and greed, charlatans, and prophets.”

The pilot episode, titled “Sam Riley’s Body,” introduces viewers to “Seth Davenport (Killian Scott), a man masquerading as a small town Iowa preacher in the hopes of starting a full-blown insurrection against the status quo,” the synopsis teases. “Focused on his mission, he is unaware that an industrialist tycoon has hired a professional strikebreaker named Creeley Turner (Logan Marshall-Green) to stop the uprising by any means necessary. But unbeknownst to those around them, these two men already share a secret bloody past.”

If Scott looks familiar its because he previously played the role of Cody Farraher in multiple “Jack Taylor” TV movies, portrayed the character Tommy in the 2010 crime-drama TV series “Love/Hate” and, in 2016, was Augustus Dove in a few episodes of the mystery-drama series “Ripper Street.”

As for Marshall-Green, he was on “24” in 2005, as well as “The O.C.” the same year and later starred in the action-crime series “Dark Blue” with Dylan McDermott from 2009 to 2010. Recently, he played the titular character of the Cinemax series “Quarry” and had a role in “Spider-Man: Homecoming.”

Others starring in “Damnation” are Sarah Jones, Chasten Harmon, Melinda Page Hamilton, Christopher Heyerdahl and Joe Adler. The executive producers on the show are Tost, Adam Kane (“American Gods”), James Mangold (“Logan”), Guymon Casady (“Game of Thrones”) and Daniel Rappaport (“Office Space”).

The premiere episode was written and created by Tost and directed by Kane.

Universal Cable Productions co-produces the western-drama with Netflix, who has first-run rights to the show outside of the United States.

“Damnation” premieres on USA on Tuesday at 10 p.m. EST.