Bob Verini Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine Jack Ryan or Jason Bourne as a cranky, retired septuagenarian, body all achin’ and racked with pain after a lifetime of dangerous missions.
Now imagine he gets the call that he’s got to get back in the game, or else risk the lives of himself and everyone he loves.
This is the intriguing, often heart-stopping premise of “The Old Man,” which examines the art of espionage in our post-Cold War world and its impact on those who conduct it.
Based on a novel by thriller master Thomas Perry, the seven-part first season of the FX series leaps back and forth in time, from the Soviet Union’s war on Afghanistan in the 1980s to the deadly legacy of that conflict in the present day. “He’s heroic, but perhaps not in the way he thought he was,” executive producer Warren Littlefield said of Jeff Bridges’ titular character at a FX FYC panel on June 8 in Los Angeles. “There’s a mystery to tell when forces come after him to assassinate him.
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