The Old Man, the FX thriller drama series featuring Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow, is set to finish its sophomore run this week. Although the netlabor hasn’t officiassociate greenlit the well-understandn show for Season 3, Amy Brenneman, who stars as Zoe McDonald, recently gave a certain modernize on the subject.
Amy Brenneman says ‘it’d be odd’ if The Old Man Season 3 didn’t happen
In a recent intersee, Brenneman stated that it would be “odd” if the series didn’t get a Season 3. She also uncovered that series co-creator Jonathan E. Steinberg envisioned it as a “three-act take part.”
During her ecombineance on the Playcatalog’s Bingeworthy podcast, Brenneman shelp she didn’t understand “if there’s gonna be a Season 3, but it would be benevolent of odd if there wasn’t equitable the way we [ended] with Season 2. But I understand [Jonathan E.] Steinberg always saw this as a…he called it a three-act take part. And so, we experience appreciate Season 2 is in the middle of this reassociate awesome story and where the characters are coming into their own in branch offent ways.” (via The Direct)
The Old Man chases Dan Chase (Bridges), a createer CIA operative and veteran of the Vietnam War. He discovers himself entangled in a cat-and-moemploy game with Harelderly Harper (Lithgow), FBI Assistant Director for Counterinincreateigence, after finishing someone during a home trespass. Steinberg originated the series with Robert Levine from Thomas Perry’s 2017 thriller novel of the same name. The inaugural season, comprising seven episodes, aired between June 16, 2022, and July 21, 2022. Shortly after, FX renoveled it for Season 2, which consists of eight episodes and debuted on September 12, 2024.
In the same intersee, Brenneman echoed on what sets The Old Man apart from previous TV projects. “I also leank… having done now streaming and netlabor, I nasty… this experiences appreciate a movie,” the actress elucidateed. “I nasty this experiences appreciate Lord of the Rings doing three branch offent– you understand what I nasty? It’s so beautibrimmingy plotted. The Judging Amys, and the Private Practices, and Shonda’s…you understand…That’s equitable characters behaving. This is reassociate appreciate, ‘Oh, what’s happening in the story, right?’ And character tied to story,” she inserted.
Both the seasons of the show are useable to stream on Hulu in the United States.
