Jeff Bridges’ The Old Man gets a second season on FX
The drama show is the most-watched cable premiere in years
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Step aside young people, The Old Man is taking over your televisions (a television is the big black rectangle your parents watch the local news on, sort of like your phone but not as fun). The FX series from Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine (based on the book of the same name by Thomas Perry) just premiered earlier this month, but FX has already announced that The Old Man is getting another season.
A press release from FX says that The Old Man’s first episode was the “most-watched cable series premiere” since January of 2021, and it was also the “most-watched FX series debut on Hulu in its opening weekend.” Who knew that putting Jeff Bridges in an action/drama TV show called The Old Man would get people to tune in? Well, FX must have known, because it put Jeff Bridges in an action/drama TV show called The Old Man.
The series, which (again) stars Bridges as an old man, also stars John Lithgow, Amy Brenneman, and Alia Shawkat. In a statement, FX Entertainment President Eric Schrier said that the cast is “really connecting with audiences” and that everyone is “excited to get to work on season two.” The seven-episode first season focuses on the old man, a former CIA operative living off the grid, as he gets attacked by an assassin and has to go on the run. Lithgow plays the FBI’s Assistant Director For Counterintelligence, who is tasked with hunting him down, with Shawkat playing Lithgow’s protege at the FBI.
We don’t know anything about season two, including when it might premiere. That being said, we can safely assume that the old man will be back when the show returns and that it seems likely that season two will premiere next summer—since FX is jumping on this announcement so fast.
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“sort of like your phone but not as fun”Yup. If you keep telling yourself that a 5″ screen with crappy speakers and spotty wifi is better than a 65″ screen with 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound and a wired connection, maybe you will convince yourself someday.
It’s probably in there to get a reaction, since all AV Club news nowadays is copied from better sites using an incredible crappy O’Neal imitation. But hey it got a reaction so it can stay the course…
We got a 65 when we moved. It’s awesome for me, because I watch a LOT of 4:3 films. It’s a weird size for other aspect ratios though. I feel I should have gone 75″ at least.
Man I can’t even stand browsing on my phone. I don’t know how people read articles and post comments with it. Aint even like I’m THAT old either, in my 30’s. I just hate touch screens (takes forever to type shit) and small screens. I really hate how the internet in general has moved to the mobile phone model.God… am I old?
No, you’re just a useless pain in the balls.
Great cast, good and watchable, and a great twist in the third episode.
I was thinking that in the second episode but I thought that would be too far fetched. But now it makes perfect sense. The old “keep your enemies closer” thing. Although the look Lithgow gives near the end of the episode makes me think he is figuring it out. My only gripe with that whole episode is that Bridges didn’t finish off the assassin with a head shot. It would seem second nature to his character.
My only gripe with that whole episode is that Bridges didn’t finish off the assassin with a head shot. It would seem second nature to his character. I figure its a nod to how he’s older and losing his touch. Like how Harper told him how he was slipping in his old age because he left the silencer on the gun of the first assassin while trying to pass it off as a home invasion. At least I can write it off that way in my head canon. It’s probably just an oversight.
I’m enjoying this show tremendously. First, all the casting is perfect (not just Bridges, who was the reason I wanted to see it). And I’m really liking the way the plot differs from the book. Chase’s reasons for being in hiding make sense in the book, but … it’s just money and politics and betrayal. The show… simplifies it, drops in a romantic subplot which to me makes sense. I think they could have kept the original plot, but then we would lose the Lithgow character’s relationship with Bridges’ character.And the daughter thing was, I thought, wonderfully done. I’m not sure, but did they not even credit the daughter’s “voice actor” in the first two episodes?[Another difference from the book is that the dogs are with Chase most of the time (in the novel he boards them with his daughter for much of the action). They are serving as dogs ex machina I guess, and that might get old in the rest of the season, but… man, they’re beautiful dogs.]So, yeah, I’ll watch a second season. I’d watch Jeff Bridges watching paint dry. But…as long as TV has discovered Thomas Perry, I would love a decently done Jane Whitefield series.
“as long as TV has discovered Thomas Perry, I would love a decently done Jane Whitefield series”You are not wrong….
Is there more than one book? It’s hard to keep up with Thomas Perry. But, as far as genre writers go, he’s above average.
It’s like, how old can this man be? And the answer is none. None more old.
I find him far more believable as a geriatric badass than Liam Neeson, and he’s only 2 years older.
There’s a coldness about him about him that Neeson doesn’t have for me. Like I can believe that Bridges would murder your grandmother. And he seems more agile than Neeson even though the grey hair makes him seem much older.
Also, I hear there isn’t a country for him.
Only two of us have seen what you did there, it seems.
Has he taken a look at your life? Has he noticed any similarities?
It’s a great show. Worth of episodic coverage on a site that would cover tv and movies and such if one site were to exist.
Yet more cranky old white men who refuse to learn anything? How original!
“How original!”
I suppose it’s not as original as an whiny, cunty, complainy, uninformed post from someone who hasn’t watched the show, but not all of us are giant, sad, pathetic hypocrits.
Its more the “cranky white guy who just wants to be left alone” and when you don’t he kills you and all your associates.
Yet more cranky old white men with high-power rifles.
Like Idaho?
for example.
This is good news; so far this has been one of my favorite shows of 2022. A shame you once again choose not to do regular coverage of a quality program.
Old Man escalates from yelling at clouds to opening fire on them.
The Dude Stops Abiding