Prodigal Son

Dr. Ainger is also co-director of neuropsychology clinical training and the assistant director of the Division of Neuropsychology at UK.

Dr. Ainger was also a consultant on Prodigal Son, a TV show about a criminal psychologist whose dad was an infamous serial killer.

Dr. Ainger, welcome to Brain Beat.

Thank you.

Got it.

Noted.

Well, I can't let you go, Dr. Ranger, without asking you about your time on the show Prodigal Son.

How did that come about and what was the experience like?

I will say, this now makes some sense to me because he kind of looks like him.

His brother is a more successful actor named Tom Payne who did a show I really liked but got canceled called Prodigal Son on Fox with Michael Sheen.

But he was on the...

People would know him from The Walking Dead.

I don't know if you remember Longmire and Stargate Universe.

There was Prodigal Son.

And of course, now the 2026 crime thriller Gangland.

Welcome to the show, Lou Diamond Phillips.