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It’s with scenes like these, where the characters in “The Old Man” are stripped bare, that the series truly soars. If anything, season two stumbles quite often when trying to be more than this. The two genres that were expertly balanced in season one don’t intersect as well here.
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Ultimately, though, The Old Man is frustrating. There are things about it that keep it from being as good as it should be, and things that make it seem better than it actually is. It's an OK show dressed up as a good one.
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Tangled and turgid, it makes so many miscalculations that it proves a creaky shell of its former self.
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Now, everyone seems fatally flawed – even Emily – and the body count is so high that the idea of being invested in a character’s survival feels almost quaint. The Old Man is bursting with puzzling alliances and long-buried secrets – but the biggest mystery of all is why we should care about any of it.