The logline for Blumhouse and Prime Video’s action horror series “The Bondsman” is an instant attention grabber. Kevin Bacon stars as a backwoods bounty hunter who gets a second lease on life when he’s resurrected by the Devil to hunt demons and send them back to Hell. That each of the eight episodes runs roughly 30-minutes long also suggests pulpy demonic fun. Despite a strong cast and a fascinatingly flawed antihero, though, showrunner Erik Oleson’s (“Daredevil”) series struggles with its truncated form and frequently puts its horror elements on the back burner.

Bacon plays Hub Halloran, a rural Georgia bounty hunter who plays dirty when it comes to catching his targets. When we meet him, he’s flushing out his latest at a seedy motel with a hornet’s nest. Despite the calm confidence of doing the gig for so long, Hub is ambushed and meets a grisly demise.