Kevin Bacon Hopes The Bondsman Returns to Dig Deeper into Hell

Have you started watching The Bondsman yet? Kevin Bacon‘s caller Prime Video bid arrived this week with its state music-infused communicative of a small-town bail bondsman who does a very bad happening past dies connected the job. He’s sent to hell, past discovers the Devil has usage for him backmost connected Earth, tracking down escaped demons and sending them backmost to their fiery home. It’s a fun, fast-paced, occasionally alternatively gory ride, and Bacon hopes to support it going successful a 2nd season.

While Prime Video has yet to marque a ruling connected whether The Bondsman volition return, some its prima and its showrunner, writer, and enforcement shaper Erik Olesen are crossing their fingers that it’ll formed the close benignant of magic connected the streamer. It’s not a spoiler to accidental play 1 ends with a crippled twist that surely makes the lawsuit for more.

“I person evil, devious plans for a 2nd season, and I tried with the mode I wrote play 1 to marque it arsenic hard connected Amazon arsenic imaginable to not springiness america a 2nd season,” Oleson told Variety. “There’s a batch much communicative to archer successful this world. We’re conscionable getting started.”

In the aforesaid Variety piece, Bacon echoed that enthusiasm and said he’d emotion to excavation deeper into his character, Hub Halloran: a failed instrumentalist and failed household antheral who learns immoderate invaluable lessons astir affectional improvement portion serving arsenic Satan’s bounty hunter. He besides gets into immoderate fantastic brawls, including an extended underwater series and 1 involving a flaming chainsaw.

“They person not picked the amusement up for a 2nd season, but we’ve already had conversations astir if they were to bash it, what it mightiness be,” Bacon told the trade. “Going deeper into Hub’s issues—I’ll permission it to the writers to fig retired each the crippled stuff, but from a quality standpoint I’m ever looking for caller and harder challenges, whether they beryllium carnal challenges oregon affectional challenges: loss, guilt, redemption.”

Watch The Bondsman play 1 connected Prime Video now, particularly if you were a instrumentality of Stan Against Evil, Ash vs. Evil Dead, and the precocious dearly departed Evil.

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