Kevin Bacon Hopes The Bondsman Returns to Dig Deeper into Hell

Have you started watching The Bondsman yet? Kevin Bacon‘s new Prime Video series arrived this week with its country music-infused tale of a small-town bail bondsman who does a very bad thing then dies on the job. He’s sent to hell, then discovers the Devil has use for him back on Earth, tracking down escaped demons and sending them back to their fiery home. It’s a fun, fast-paced, occasionally rather gory ride, and Bacon hopes to keep it going in a second season. While Prime Video has yet to make a ruling on whether The Bondsman will return, both its star and its showrunner, writer, and executive producer Erik Olesen are crossing their fingers that it’ll cast the right kind of magic on the streamer. It’s not a spoiler to say season one ends with a plot twist that certainly makes the case for more. “I have evil, devious plans for a second season, and I tried with the way I wrote season one to make it as difficult on Amazon as possible to not give us a second season,” Oleson told Varie ... Read full article.