Spoiler Alert: This interview contains mild spoilers about this season of “The Bondsman,” now available to stream on Prime Video.

The new series “The Bondsman” stars Kevin Bacon as Hub Halloran, a recently-murdered bondsman who is granted fresh life by Satan, as long as he uses his tracking skills to hunt down and kill demons who have escaped from the underworld. That’s a hell of a premise, but this show has much more on its mind than just monsters-of-the-week, diving deep into Hub’s relationship with his ex-wife and son and his love-hate relationship with the country music industry.

The surprises start at the top. At first, Bacon’s macho lead role seems like a run-of-the-mill badass: All one-liners, muscles and cool-guy poses. But that was only half of the appeal for the veteran actor.

“You see him right away kicking ass, right? But he’s also a man-child,...