Hub Halloran, Kevin Bacon’s morally tarnished, Satan-employed bounty hunter in Amazon’s recent supernatural drama The Bondsman, might have been able to come back from the dead. But his series doesn’t seem to be so lucky. Variety reports this weekend that the show, created by Grainger David, has been canceled after a single season on Prime Video.
The series was, wouldn’t you know it, killed off on a Friday night, without a word of fond farewell or kind regards from its home streamer—classic Friday Night TV Murder Pile stuff. This, despite the show getting some mildly favorable reviews—not from us, mind you, but other people seemed to like it—for Bacon’s depiction of a bad guy sent back from hell to hunt down even worse guys. (And also sing some country songs. There was a whole country music element to the series.) C0-stars on the series included Beth Grant, who played Hub’s mother, as well as Jennifer Nettles, Damon Herriman, Maxwell Jenkins, and Jolene Purdy. The series briefly managed to crack Nielsen’s streaming charts when it debuted back in early April, but then sank back beneath the vast and unforgiving streaming waters.
With elements of horror and comedy attached to its supernatural premise, Bondsman picked up a lot of comparisons to fare like Supernatural and, weirdly, Brimstone, a TV show we were pretty sure we were the last living people to actually remember. (Jon Glover as the devil! Good times!) Bacon got some nice notices for his turn as Hub, but, overall, most people seemed to forget about the series pretty damned quickly. Including, possibly, Prime, hence not even giving out a eulogy after canceling the show a month after first releasing it.
