I am honestly surprised with myself at how quickly I jumped into the second season of The Old Man. I was also equally surprised to learn that the whole season has just finished airing a couple of months ago.
From my perspective at least, the show picked up right where it left off, but it helped that the first season was fresh in my mind. Dan and Harold know that Emily has been taken to Faraz Hamzad and that if they don’t get their quick, she’s dead. After a very long and covert three weeks they run into Omar, a Taliban soldier with something to prove. He doesn’t fool Dan and Harold for long, especially after he starts asking some really pointed questions about “the American woman.” The two men are as effective as the young guns you see in movies and they make their way to an old hiding spot of Dan’s.
Meanwhile, Emily, at first a prisoner in her old home, learns to appreciate the subtilties of where she spent the first few years of her life. Hamzad, while happy to have his daughter back home, also knows that she is not his anymore. Not with how she was brought up in America with no knowledge of him. So he also harbors plenty of resentment, especially when it seems all Emily wants to know is more about who her mother really was. It’s the threats to the Hamzad family, friends, and army that finally brings the two together. Even though she’s never really known these people, she knows that the connection they share runs deep and she wants to do all she can to help.
Omar and his men have descended on the small village out for blood, but Hamzad and Emily are nowhere to be seen. Instead they have an encounter with Dan and Harold in the cave which leaves Hamzad more wounded than Emily would prefer. Not that she’s just now gotten to know him a little. They all agree to go back and help, and while they fend off the threat for now, they know more is coming. Emily stays behind and sends Dan and Harold back home to convince their old handler to stop the plan that he set in motion, but all of that turns into a bigger bag of worms than anyone of them could have anticipated.
Zoe is back in the fold, and though she does prove to be pretty invaluable, she’s the least convincing bit of the whole story. She fits too well into this world and is too accepting of all of the crazy shit that’s come here way in just a couple of months. I feel like there has to be more to her past. The answers they are looking for are not easy to come buy, and most of the rest of the season is them getting out by the skin of their teeth. There is one truly shocking scene and then and even more surprising twist at the end, but it appears that the war the Hamzad’s are fighting are just beginning. They’re holding the line for now, but there’s more danger on the horizon.
Power is everything in this show and the connections all of these characters have are really compelling. I have no clue if the real world version of these things are nearly as interesting, so I’ll just settle for this version instead. I have absolutely no clue if a third season is coming, but I’d certainly tune in for it!