Review: Jeff Bridges' new TV show is the next deliciously twisty thriller to add to your list
by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
Jun 16, 2022
4 minutes
"The Old Man," premiering Thursday on FX, gives up its secrets slowly — more slowly than I will, should you care to turn to the sports page. For a good while, we might be watching the story of a small-town Vermont widower playing with his dogs, talking with or exchanging phone messages with a daughter, remote and unseen, worrying about the possibility of cognitive decline. His dead wife visits him in a dream. Old man, indeed. But suddenly, there are tin cans strung together to make an alarm, a gun and a fight. Eventually, we learn that Dan Chase (Jeff
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