According to The Hollywood Reporter, Prime Video’s horror series The Bondsman has been canceled. The Kevin Bacon (Footloose, Hollow Man) led series ran for just one season.
The show peaked at No.9 on the Nielsen streaming charts during its first week from March 31 to April 6, with 563 million minutes watched, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, it quickly fell off and did not land in the top 10 again.
The series follows Bacon as a murdered country music star and bounty hunter, Hub Halloran, who receives a second chance at life when the Devil recruits him to track down demons who have escaped from hell. The Hollywood Reporter’s Angie Han raved about Bacon’s ability “to land the show’s humor with a well-timed grunt, and its emotions with the perfect hangdog expression… Such is his charisma that he’s nearly able to make this whole strange jumble of tones and tunes and supernatural gore sing, through sheer force of will,” via The Hollywood Reporter.
Han went on to add, “Outside of Bacon’s performance, the horror dramedy is more of a mixed bag — fitfully amusing but rarely as funny or heartfelt or surprising as it wants to be, and never as memorable as its attention-grabbing premise might lead you to hope,” via The Hollywood Reporter.
The series was created by Grainger David (The Chair, The Edge of the Woods), with Erik Oleson (Carnival Row, The Man in the High Castle) serving as showrunner. Oleson stated of The Bondsman, “There are a lot of demon hunting shows; there’s tons of movies and things. It is a genre unto itself, right? But what makes our show a fun, unique and original ride is in the mash-up of combining that with the family dramedy, Appalachian noir, a country music story and, oh yeah, Kevin Bacon putting chainsaws through the faces of demons,” via The Hollywood Reporter.
Unfortunately, the show didn’t capture the public’s hearts as it fizzled out after just a single season.