Dude, Jeff Bridges?
To those who would be wrong to believe this, the 73-year-old actor is responsible for demonstrating the opposite.
For his first participation in a TV series, he obviously took on the role of Dan Chase, an ex-CIA agent who lives withdrawn from the world with his two Rottweilers, in a wilderness, north of New York. .
Knowing that a political affair more than thirty years old risks resurfacing at any time, he always remains on his guard.
And so it is that one night he kills a killer who broke into his home.
This is the starting point of a run in which he will lead a woman with whom he was to settle only temporarily to find refuge.
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Faced with CIA conspiracies
We quickly understand that it is his former employer who is trying to eliminate him, helped in this hunt by John Lithgow – absolutely prodigious in the roles of villains – who plays the deputy director of the FBI Harold Harper, a former friend of Chase.
But as an old backpacker accustomed to the techniques of ordered assassination, Chase thwarts the plots of the CIA and its young agents in a delightful gallop around the world.
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Adapted from the eponymous novel by writer Thomas Perry, the series saw its filming interrupted for a long time, Jeff Bridges having had to undergo chemotherapy to treat cancer, while fighting against the Covid.
"
I almost got used to the idea of dying
," he told American magazine Variety.
Every
day, I set myself a goal.
The first was to stand up.
After months of struggle, I broke a record by walking for forty-five seconds straight.
This kind of experience pushed the actor to his limits, and when he regained his health, he gave everything he had in his guts.
It does not disappoint, and a season 2 is already on the way.
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A series of excellent craftsmanship, with a classic but solid scenario which highlights the face-to-face Bridges / Lithgow all the better.
As an old veteran who has not burned his last cartridges, Jeff Bridges convinces and seduces, with his two magnificent dogs, other stars of the series.
