Spoilers below for anyone who hasn’t yet streamed at least the first episode of "The Bondsman" with an Amazon Prime subscription.
As his TV follow-up to Showtime’s heady crime drama "City on a Hill," Kevin Bacon returned to his more spooky roots for the new gore-speckled horror-comedy "The Bondsman." An absolute hoot from start to finish and unlike anything else on the 2025 TV schedule to date, this is definitely one of the week’s most watchable streaming debuts. But it does kick off on an extremely wild and unexpected note, with Bacon’s character Hub Halloran getting his throat sliced open. The gruesome turn of events is no dream sequence, either.
As his TV follow-up to Showtime’s heady crime drama "City on a Hill," Kevin Bacon returned to his more spooky roots for the new gore-speckled horror-comedy "The Bondsman." An absolute hoot from start to finish and unlike anything else on the 2025 TV schedule to date, this is definitely one of the week’s most watchable streaming debuts. But it does kick off on an extremely wild and unexpected note, with Bacon’s character Hub Halloran getting his throat sliced open. The gruesome turn of events is no dream sequence, either.
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00:00How much did you work conversations about doing the unthinkable and and sort of killing him off immediately in that first scene?
00:08I wanted to establish the role for the audience in the opening sequence.
00:12And so I wrote a sequence of events that basically encapsulates not just who Hub Halloween is, the character that Kevin is playing, but teaches you several different aspects of what the show will be.
00:26You're going to laugh.
00:28You're going to be shocked.
00:29There's going to be blood.
00:30There's also going to be heart.
00:32And you're going to be like, what I wanted the audience to do when they got to the end of that opening sequence in the pilot was kind of look at each other and go like, what the fuck is this show?
00:43Right.
00:43And so that's why I wanted to lay it out that way.