The FX thriller came out of nowhere to become one of the year’s best new shows. It broke records for Hulu and is sure to do well at the Emmys next year (it came out just before the eligibility period for 2022). 2022 was the year of The Old Man, so you might not want to walk on someone’s lawn.
The Old Man is a classic thriller with many actions and twists that have us looking forward to Season 2. Jeff Bridges plays Dan Chase, a former CIA agent who has to come out of hiding when an old enemy who wants to get even with him finds him. Harold Harper, an FBI Assistant Director, played by John Lithgow, is an old friend of Dan’s who is in charge of trying to catch him.
But what will Season 2 of The Old Man be about? Who is coming back? When will the dogs return? Here’s what we know about Season 2 of The Old Man.
The Old Man Season 2 Release Date
According to tvguide, On June 27, 2022, after the third episode of The Old Man aired, FX picked up a second season. There is no set a date for a second season, but we hope the show will keep coming out once a year. If that happens, Season 2 will come out in the summer of 2023.
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The Old Man Season 2 Be About
Almost certainly, Season 2 will pick up where Season 1 left off when Alia Shawkat’s Angela/Emily was taken by Faraz Hamzad, and Dan Chase and Harold Harper went to save her. But digging deeper, now that Dan and Harold are finally together, creators Dan Shotz and Jonathan E. Steinberg told Deadline that they want to learn more about what happened to Dan and Harold in Afghanistan.
Could this be the flashback storyline for Season 2? — by looking at the past from their point of view. How couldn’t it?
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You can bet that Angela/Emily will quickly find out who her real father is. “As a general rule, we don’t want a character to be too far behind the audience,” Steinberg told Deadline. “What’s happening pretty quickly for her.
Who Will Be in The Old Man Season 2?
Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow will be back, and since many of the stories from Season 1 of The Old Man are still going on, most of the main cast will be back as well. Agent Raymond Waters (E.J. Bonilla), who didn’t make it out of the finale, almost certainly won’t be back for Season 2.
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Don’t worry about whether or not Zoe will be in Season 2. Even though Dan left her to go after his daughter, Shotz says Zoe and actress Amy Brenneman will “definitely be back,” and she has a fascinating story in Season 2. And everyone wants to know: Will Dan’s Rottweiler dogs come back in Season 2 of The Old Man? Absolutely! Shotz said, “I’m not sure if The Old Man is a show without the dogs.” He gets it.
The Old Man Main Cast
- Jeff Bridges as Dan Chase / Johnny Kohler
- John Lithgow as Harold Harper
- Alia Shawkat as Angela Adams / Emily Chase / Parwana Hamzad
- Amy Brenneman as Zoe McDonald
- Gbenga Akinnagbe as Julian Carson
Storyline
There is still a chance for everyone, but after the end of season one, there is a lot to figure out.
First, during the first season, it was revealed that Chase’s daughter Emily, who had been living a lie as Angela, wasn’t even his daughter, though she didn’t know that at the time. Faraz Hamzad, an Afghan warlord, is her real father (Pej Vahdat).
This new information shows that Chase is to blame for almost everything that has happened in the first season and that he is not innocent of what has happened. Even though we had grown to like him as a person, his efforts to hide things from everyone turned out to be his downfall, and his stubbornness to keep up the act has torn the world around him apart.
We think the next season will be sad.
Even before the first season came out, co-creator John Steinberg said they had set up the show as a fun ride.
Steinberg told The Wrap, “It’s a story about these guys facing their mortality, especially Dan Chase. He’s someone who has avoided mortality and felt immune to it in some ways to get through everything he’s been through. Now it’s about what happens when you can’t avoid it anymore because your body is failing, you’re living alone, and your kids are grown.
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“He feels like it’s over,” she said. This led to a talk about what I think is called a “quarter-life crisis.” You’re taught to believe you’re done at a certain age.
He also said, “I think a lot of people stumble into the idea that they still have time. And I think this secret door to something else that hasn’t been looked into becomes more critical as the talk about legacy becomes more real.
The Old Man Season 1 Review
We were also impressed by the first season of The Old Man, especially how it reminded us of the 1970s paranoid action thrillers and how well Bridges and Lithgow played the leads.
Where Can I Watch
The Old Man is an FX series, so it first aired on FX and then became available to stream on Hulu the next day. Season 1 of the show is over, so you can watch it on Hulu.
