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 Variety. “There’s a lot more story to tell in this world. We’re just getting started.”
In the same Variety piece, Bacon echoed that enthusiasm and said he’d love to dig deeper into his character, Hub Halloran: a failed musician and failed family man who learns some valuable lessons about emotional evolution while serving as Satan’s bounty hunter. He also gets into some fantastic brawls, including an extended underwater sequence and one involving a flaming chainsaw.
“They have not picked the show up for a second season, but we’ve already had conversations about if they were to do it, what it might be,” Bacon told the trade. “Going deeper into Hub’s issues—I’ll leave it to the writers to figure out all the plot stuff, but from a character standpoint I’m always looking for new and harder challenges, whether they be physical challenges or emotional challenges: loss, guilt, redemption.”
Watch The Bondsman season one on Prime Video now, especially if you were a fan of Stan Against Evil, Ash vs. Evil Dead, and the recently dearly departed Evil.
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