Ulysses

Ulysses is the butler at River Run, the North Carolina plantation belonging to Jocasta Cameron. Enslaved but running the great house with total command, he moves through every room with immaculate poise, anticipating needs before they're spoken. Composed, watchful, and precise, he gives away nothing of what he actually thinks.

Colin McFarlane plays the mask rather than the man beneath it, letting formality itself become the performance — every bow and measured word a survival strategy in plain sight. The writing trusts silence to do the work, and McFarlane fills it with a watchfulness that makes you lean in, waiting for the moment the composure might slip.