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Jeff Bridges was one of the few movie stars who had not been seduced by the series.

By the series of now, it is understood, because like so many other myths of the big screen, Bridges began in the small one, specifically in Underwater Investigator, a series by his father, Lloyd Bridges.

Then Jeff's career was pure Hollywood and the rest is history.

Now, after a well-deserved but belated Oscar for Wild

, the magnificent

, and his part in the extremely rare

, Jeff Bridges is finally starring in a series:

.

He has done it in living legend terms, pulling in a

, but also at the orders of two creators who are not going to say that "this is not a series, it is an episodic film".

Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine, creators of

are TV men.

Their names are in scripts for series like

or the highly cult

.

They are neither prestigious filmmakers seduced by a platform nor great promises from Sundance and Locarno who, thanks to the juicy checks paid by TV, will be able to maintain their high standard of living in Los Angeles while they manage to start their next provocative film.

.

Hiring purely television scriptwriters (what's more: purely television and very commercial) detracts from the glamor of a series and, above all, of its promotional campaign, but it also avoids certain problems derived from the ego of certain spoiled children of film festivals.

It is also true that neither Steinberg nor Levine have hits on the resume.

It is also true that

.

The Old Man

knows that not only will you call his main character Jeff Bridges, but when you talk about the series you will call it the Jeff Bridges series.

Those responsible for him are well aware of this and play it, making the most of his investment in a Hollywood icon.

Both the various directors of the seven episodes and Sean Porter, director of photography, remind us

.

If you don't trust them, pick up

or

.

THAT is a star.

Now the star is in his seventies, but

is precisely about that: having been and no longer being but still being.

In the Steinberg and Levine series, available on Disney+, Jeff Bridges is a former CIA officer who

.

You guessed it: someone digs it up and there begins a game of cat and mouse in which the concepts are mixed.

Jeff Bridges' series takes a while to get going, but once he shows his cards it works like a charm and is a lot less conventional than it seems.

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