‘The Old Man’ Stars Jeff Bridges as a Wizened Superspy: TV Review
variety.comDaniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticJeff Bridges, in his new series “The Old Man,” is playing the kind of spy they don’t make anymore.His Dan Chase is, even at an advanced age, a master tactician; he repeatedly bests men many years younger than he is in hand-to-hand combat.
He’s also winningly persuasive, so much so that the FBI counterintelligence chief tasked with finding him (John Lithgow) can’t resist giving him a head start.Indeed, the aptly named Chase seems perpetually one step ahead in evading pursuit, and the show is similarly ahead of us at home: We find out just what has made Chase, and what makes the chase, as we go.
While part of the CIA, Chase went rogue; he’s spent the rest of his life — before and after becoming a parent and then a widower — living under assumed identities and staying just out-of-reach of an angry defense apparatus.
Given the opportunity to simply disappear and sever contact with his daughter (whom we meet as an unidentified voice at the other end of the phone), he refuses.
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