Kevin Bacon Hopes The Bondsman Returns to Dig Deeper into Hell

Have you ever began watching The Bondsman but? Kevin Bacon‘s new Prime Video collection arrived this week with its nation music-infused story of a small-town bail bondsman who does a very unhealthy factor then dies on the job. He’s despatched to hell, then discovers the Satan has use for him again on Earth, monitoring down escaped demons and sending them again to their fiery house. It’s a enjoyable, fast-paced, sometimes slightly gory trip, and Bacon hopes to maintain it getting into a second season.

Whereas Prime Video has but to make a ruling on whether or not The Bondsman will return, each its star and its showrunner, author, and govt producer Erik Olesen are crossing their fingers that it’ll solid the proper of magic on the streamer. It’s not a spoiler to say season one ends with a plot twist that definitely makes the case for extra.

“I’ve evil, devious plans for a second season, and I attempted with the way in which I wrote season one to make it as troublesome on Amazon as doable to not give us a second season,” Oleson informed Variety. “There’s much more story to inform on this world. We’re simply getting began.”

In the identical Selection piece, Bacon echoed that enthusiasm and stated he’d like to dig deeper into his character, Hub Halloran: a failed musician and failed household man who learns some worthwhile classes about emotional evolution whereas serving as Devil’s bounty hunter. He additionally will get into some improbable brawls, together with an prolonged underwater sequence and one involving a flaming chainsaw.

“They haven’t picked the present up for a second season, however we’ve already had conversations about in the event that they had been to do it, what it is perhaps,” Bacon informed the commerce. “Going deeper into Hub’s points—I’ll go away it to the writers to determine all of the plot stuff, however from a personality standpoint I’m all the time in search of new and more durable challenges, whether or not they be bodily challenges or emotional challenges: loss, guilt, redemption.”

Watch The Bondsman season one on Prime Video now, particularly should you had been a fan of Stan In opposition to Evil, Ash vs. Evil Useless, and the just lately dearly departed Evil.

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