The Bondsman, Prime Video’s horror collection starring Kevin Bacon, has been canceled, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
The present debuted its first and solely season by way of 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 collection.
THR‘s TV critic Angie Han recommended Bacon’s efficiency within the present, complimenting his capacity “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 practically capable of make this entire unusual jumble of tones and tunes and supernatural gore sing, by means of sheer drive of will.”
Han added, “Exterior of Bacon’s efficiency, the horror dramedy is extra of a blended bag — fitfully amusing however hardly ever as humorous or heartfelt or shocking 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 collection and served as an govt producer alongside Jason Blum, Jeremy Gold, Chris Dickie, Chris McCumber, Bacon, Paul E. Shapiro and Erik Oleson, who can also 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 advised THR that with Bondsman, he “needed to jot down one thing that may be enjoyable to observe, enjoyable to make and enjoyable to jot down.” When he realized that Bacon was “” within the present, “I used to be like, ‘Wait, I get to have Kevin Bacon looking demons with Blumhouse? Sure please, I’m in!’”
“There are numerous demon looking exhibits; there’s tons of films and issues. It’s a style unto itself, proper? However what makes our present a enjoyable, distinctive and unique journey 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 by means of the faces of demons,” Oleson added. “Like all that blend makes it a enjoyable, hopefully unique journey. You actually don’t know whether or not you’re going to snigger 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!”