The Bondsman, Prime Video’s horror sequence starring Kevin Bacon, has been canceled, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
The present debuted its first and solely season through Prime Video on April 3 with eight episodes. Throughout its first week, Bondsman landed at No. 9 Nielsen’s streaming charts for March 31-April 6 with 563 million minutes watched. Nonetheless, it swiftly exited the charts and didn’t land within the High 10 once more.
Bacon stars as a former nation music star and murdered bounty hunter, Hub Halloran, who will get a second shot at life when the Satan resurrects him to catch demons who’ve escaped from Hell. Jennifer Nettles, Damon Herriman, Beth Grant and Maxwell Jenkins additionally starred within the sequence.
THR‘s TV critic Angie Han counseled Bacon’s efficiency within the present, complimenting his means “to land the present’s humor with a well-timed grunt, and its feelings with the proper hangdog expression… Such is his charisma that he’s almost capable of make this entire unusual jumble of tones and tunes and supernatural gore sing, via sheer pressure of will.”
Han added, “Outdoors of Bacon’s efficiency, the horror dramedy is extra of a blended bag — fitfully amusing however not often as humorous or heartfelt or stunning because it needs to be, and by no means as memorable as its attention-grabbing premise may lead you to hope.”
Grainger David created the sequence and served as an government producer alongside Jason Blum, Jeremy Gold, Chris Dickie, Chris McCumber, Bacon, Paul E. Shapiro and Erik Oleson, who can be showrunner. Erik Holmberg served as co-executive producer. The Bondsman hails from Blumhouse Tv, Marker 96, CrimeThink Manufacturing Firm and Amazon MGM Studios.
Oleson informed THR that with Bondsman, he “wished to put in writing one thing that will be enjoyable to look at, enjoyable to make and enjoyable to put in writing.” When he realized that Bacon was “” within the present, “I used to be like, ‘Wait, I get to have Kevin Bacon searching demons with Blumhouse? Sure please, I’m in!’”
“There are lots of demon searching exhibits; there’s tons of flicks and issues. It’s a style unto itself, proper? However what makes our present a enjoyable, distinctive and unique experience is within the mash-up of mixing that with the household dramedy, Appalachian noir, a rustic music story and, oh yeah, Kevin Bacon placing chainsaws via the faces of demons,” Oleson added. “Like all that blend makes it a enjoyable, hopefully unique experience. You actually don’t know whether or not you’re going to snort out loud, scream out loud, or have a look at whoever’s watching it with you on the sofa and say, ‘What the fuck? That was enjoyable!”