All the evidence - eyewitness accounts, video footage, etc. Ralph Anderson ( Ben Mendelsohn), who is grieving the recent loss of his own son. The Outsider starts with the discovery of the horribly mangled body of an 11-year-old boy in the Georgia woods. Price knows detective stories inside and out, but this is his first time doing anything with a horror element, unless you think The Night Of is about the horror of Rikers Island.ĭiscover your new favorite show: Watch This Now! And the TV adaptation is executive-produced and primarily written by Richard Price, one of America's greatest crime novelists (check out the extraordinary Lush Life) and screenwriters. Mercedes) and injected a dose of his signature supernatural horror. The source material is a 2018 novel by Stephen King where the legendary novelist took the detective genre he'd been experimenting with in the Bill Hodges trilogy (adapted into the series Mr. The Outsider is the product of two brilliant writers trying something different. That show is The Outsider, which scratches that very particular itch of "detectives using traditional police methods to investigate a supernatural case." There's a killer on the loose, and he might not be human.
It seems like HBO agrees, and rather than wait for Nic Pizzolatto to go back to the supernatural well, they decided to develop a new project in a similar vein. The two subsequent seasons abandoned the first's mysticism, which couldn't help but disappoint viewers who were hoping for multiple seasons of a very well-made supernatural crime anthology. Can you believe it's been six years since True Detective Season 1? That game-changing HBO anthology has influenced dozens of ambitious shows in the years since, and yet it in a way it's never gotten a proper follow-up.
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