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The Old Man Season-Premiere Recap: Reality Bites
The Old Man bursts into the new season with an action-packed episode and an annoying cliffhanger.
But there’s good news on that front: The more we peel back the layers of the convoluted storyline — which, regrettably, doesn’t reach anything close to clarity in season two — the easier it is to accept that The Old Man is, at heart, a family drama merely disguised as a spy thriller. This wasn’t just some anodyne after-school activity: The day Emily demanded to play soccer with the kind of conviction he had only seen during his years in Afghanistan was the moment Chase knew she was still Faraz Hamzad’s daughter and that “there would always be some part of her that didn’t belong to me.” He’s gutted that she’s about to learn the truth. Then, we take a quick excursion into the recesses of Chase’s subconscious, where an apparition of Young Faraz Hamzad (Pej Vahdat) taunts his former friend over his vicious true self — and for keeping Emily’s identity a secret all her life.
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