Kevin Bacon’s The Bondsman Looks Devilishly Fun

Kevin Bacon plays a bail bondsman brought back from the dead to keep doing his job—except instead of hunting regular ol’ humans, he’s now chasing demons who’ve escaped from hell. That’s the premise for Blumhouse Television and Amazon MGM Studios’ new Prime Video series, and this new trailer suggests the finished product will be just as fun as you might hope. Kevin Bacon with a flaming chainsaw! There are definitely some Ash vs. Evil Dead monster-fight vibes afoot, with maybe a touch of The Good Place‘s corrupt afterlife bureaucracy—which are comparisons we’d never toss around lightly. Also intriguing: that The Bondsman will have a larger mythology at work, with Bacon’s character, Hub Halloran, pulled into an underworld-linked mystery that’ll make him question his devilishly propelled immortality. Plus, yes, that is country star turned actor Jennifer Nettles (The Righteous Gemstones, The Exorcist) playing Hub’s wife, and this trailer contains proof we’ll see Nettles and Bacon—also a mu ... Read full article.