The Bondsman is hanging up his holster. Prime Video has opted not to renew the Kevin Bacon-led supernatural action drama, ending the series after a single season.
The cancellation comes just six weeks after the eight-episode season dropped in full on April 3. While the Blumhouse Television-produced series opened strong—pulling in 563 million viewing minutes in its first week per Nielsen—the numbers cratered quickly, with the show falling out of the Top 10 by week two.
Despite still holding the No. 5 spot on Prime Video’s internal Top 10 in the U.S., the drop-off was steep enough to kill the momentum. The streamer made the call this week not to proceed with a second season.
The Bondsman starred Bacon as Hub Halloran, a rough-edged bounty hunter gunned down in his prime, only to be resurrected by the Devil and tasked with rounding up rogue demons. His second shot at life came with its own complications—family, guilt, and a heavy dose of outlaw country.
The series earned solid marks from critics, and was praised for its tone and Bacon’s lead performance. But it struggled to gain traction beyond the platform, generating little engagement across social platforms—an increasingly crucial metric in greenlight math.
The show was exec produced by Erik Oleson, who also served as showrunner, alongside Jason Blum, Jeremy Gold, Chris Dickie, Chris McCumber, Kevin Bacon, Paul Shapiro, and Grainger David. It hailed from Blumhouse Television, Marker 96, and CrimeThink.
The Bondsman now joins the growing pile of genre-forward originals that delivered creatively but couldn’t hold in a crowded streaming field.
