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The Old Man’s Secret Code
The sneakily unconventional series returns bearing all the idiosyncratic qualities that keep it from becoming another predictable spy thriller.
Created by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine, the series revolves around Dan Chase (Jeff Bridges), a former CIA operative who’s on the other side of what seems to be a happy family life and mourning the death of his wife, Abbey (Hiam Abbass), when a not-so-happy chapter of his violent past breaks into his house and tries to kill him. But then The Old Man hits you with another array of fun, textured details — Chase putting butter in his coffee, Zoe’s gorgeous woodland house, the sickly yellow glow of the FBI offices — and you instead get the impression that every choice in this series is intended to produce a very specific frequency. The images depict jackals, inspired by the titular characters from a book of second-century fables, Kalīlah and Dimnah, on an epic journey: Underneath trees, amid flowers, and framed by geometric patterns customary to Islamic art, they face off against scorpions, are guided forward by hawks, and peer into caves.
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