Kevin Bacon’s Gory Horror Comedy ‘The Bondsman’ Sputters Out After a Strong Start: TV Review

variety.com:

Alison Herman TV Critic “The Bondsman” isn’t based on a comic book, but the Prime Video series seems like it could be. Produced by genre mainstay Blumhouse, the action-horror hybrid stars Kevin Bacon in the titular role as Hub Halloran, a fugitive hunter who abruptly switches employers when he’s murdered and brought back to life.

Where Hub once pursued petty criminals, he’s now charged with rounding up escaped demons by the Devil himself. Hub’s new gig unleashes a torrent of comically exaggerated gore and populates his world with even more colorful characters.

He already has a hyper-Bostonian nemesis, his ex-wife’s current boyfriend Lucky (Damon Herriman, an Aussie doing a truly lamentable accent); now he has a boss, Midge (Jolene Purdy), who gathers souls for Satan on the side of her home bakery business.

The mix of sacred and profane recalls “Preacher,” the AMC series that was itself an adaptation of a Garth Ennis title from the 1990s. “The Bondsman” creator Grainger David and showrunner Erik Oleson (“Daredevil,” “The Man in the High Castle”) are working from an original idea, but they take tonal inspiration from another medium.