The Best Spaghetti Western Show Ever Released Can Be Binged In Under 8 Hours

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By Zach Moser

March 21, 2026

That Dirty Black Bag is an underrated eight-episode TV series, and one of our best examples of Spaghetti Westerns on television. When you think of the Spaghetti Western genre, you tend to think of the international productions from Italy, like the films of Sergio Leone and his contemporaries. Movies that demythologized the standard American Western.

It's not quite as popular a genre now, mostly a result of the demythologized version of American Westerns morphing into the new standard of American Westerns. Every once in a while, we do get a production firmly planted in the genre, and The Dirty Black Bag, an Italian-produced TV series, is one of them.

That Dirty Black Bag Is A Great Spaghetti Western

That Dirty Black Bag comes from Italian director and screenwriter Mauro Aragoni, though the series is in English. The show follows two men, Red Bill (Douglas Booth), a notorious bounty hunter who decapitates his victims and stuffs their heads in a black bag, and Arthur McCoy (Dominic Cooper), a morally grey sheriff.

When Red Bill and McCoy's paths cross, the two end up on a grim and violent journey together that uncovers tragic histories in both men's lives. Niv Sultan and Aidan Gillen also star in the series. That Dirty Black Bag manages to build up some disreputable characters, then slowly make root for them as the show continues.

That Dirty Black Bag Deserved So Much More Attention

That Dirty Black Bag has an 80% on Rotten Tomatoes, but only a small (though loyal) following of fans. Perhaps it's because the show is only available on Prime Video or to those with an AMC+ subscription that it doesn't have as big a fandom as something of its caliber rightly deserves.

The single season likely signals to some that That Dirty Black Bag isn't a show worth getting invested in either. It's a show that really deserved to have at least one more season. The characters in the series are so rich, and there's still so much more to explore in the grim, Western world they inhabit.

Why That Dirty Black Bag Is Still Worth Watching

Despite there being no plans for a second season, at least as of writing, That Dirty Black Bag is absolutely still worth watching. The series refuses to adhere to any strict Western history, either the kind from the '50s and '60s, the Spaghetti Westerns that followed, or the modern ones that learned from those series.

That Dirty Black Bag exists in its own space. The gore in the series is appropriately shocking, but it's not so overdone that you get bored with it. The dark humor is funny and used at just the right moments to break the anxiety of the tense plot that gets tighter and tighter every episode.