Hub Halloran (Kevin Bacon) arrived at an abandoned motel to catch one of the Earl brothers. It turned out that the brothers knew he was coming and set a trap. They killed him! To his great surprise, he awoke with a slit throat. Why wasn't he dead? Then the phone calls started from Pot O' Gold. He was back from the dead for a purpose: he was now a bounty hunter in the employ of the devil. His Pot O' Gold supervisor, Midge (Jolene Purdy), explained that Hell is basically a prison and sometimes there are escapes. Escapees possess humans. The only way to send them back is to kill the human they have possessed.
Hub isn't a lone wolf in his efforts. His mother (Beth Grant) is his boss and she finds out about his new job when he does. Of course, his mom is more interested in why he went to Hell rather than his new job of demonslaying. Hub is coy on that subject, declaring it a mistake. Hub's ex-wife, Maryanne (Jennifer Nettles), stumbles upon him in action against a demon and joins his efforts. He roped his teenaged son, Cade (Maxwell Jenkins), into serving as a lookout on another instance. Ex-con and Maryanne's boyfriend, Lucky (Damon Herriman), knows something dark is happening and wants to protect Maryanne and Cade, whatever measures that might require.
Though Hub accepts his new role, he thinks there must be a loophole, a way to get out from under his misdeeds. He spends a lot of time plotting against Lucky rather than hunting demons that are clearly working as part of a greater plan. His mother tells him that pride is what led him to Hell and he still hasn't mended that.
The series is available on Amazon. It is only 8 episodes long and each episode is only 30 minutes. Yeah, this is easy to binge in a single sitting. The gruesome deaths of demons and their victims is often over the top, reminding me of Death of a Unicorn. Good popcorn fun!
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