Pick of the week
The Old Man
This drama seems a little cursed – season one was disrupted by Covid and a cancer diagnosis for lead Jeff Bridges, while season two has been hit by the writers’ strike. These travails are oddly appropriate: Bridges’ agent Dan Chase is a stubborn old warrior, moving slowly but relentlessly through all obstacles. He’s back in the mountains of Afghanistan – in cahoots with FBI frenemy Harold Harper (John Lithgow) and searching for the woman the pair know as Emily Chase. But are either of them prepared for the whole truth about her? Bridges’ crusty melancholy lends the show a gravitas that takes it slightly beyond the realms of the espionage thriller into something more personal.
Disney+, from Wednesday 6 November
