Rounding up escapee demons and sending them back to hell

Nigel Booth watches some backwoods hellish TV

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He may not be the heavyweight he once was in Hollywood, but Kevin Bacon still has pulling power and he plays a starring role in new Amazon Prime series The Bondsman.

Bacon plays backwoods bounty hunter Hub Halloran, a chancer and all round unpleasant guy, who is resurrected by the devil to hunt escaped demons and return them to hell, but only after he is killed himself while trying to arrest some bad guys at a motel in the mortal realm.

He is seemingly given a second chance at life, love and a musical career with a chance to reflect on his blemished life and past sins, which include neglect of his wife and son.

Hub is aided in his efforts, surprisingly, by his god-fearing mother, who struggles with her son's new found role (surprise, surprise).

His damnation does not appear to be a fait accompli and he does seem to have a stab at redemption, but this is always skating on a knife edge.