The acting, cinematography and mood of this one were all good again, but the pacing was a real problem. Much too slow, and hopefully that's not the start of a new trend...
The axiom goes that, "any sufficiently advanced science, to the uninformed, looks like magic. But in "The Outsider", our protagonists are scientifically astute, but, that predisposes them to ignore or ridicule what is right in front of their faces, because it is beyond the scope of their understanding of science, and actually IS in a word..., MAGIC. (of the dark variety)
Ralph, even when he is presented with his wife's drawing of the warning intruder, KNOWING that it matches one he already has, can't yet make the mental leap set before him, and instead grasps vainly for a more "logical", scientific explanation. Holly, however, is able to take that leap, and, although she can't yet tell the others what she knows, for fear of being dismissed, must contrive a way to get them all on the same path she has discovered, but not before they can mentally accept what will to them become a new reality.
The creature itself seems to have two modes of trickeration. The chaos it brings upon the completely innocent, by committing a heinous crime while skin walking in a temporary clone of their body, and then, sadly letting the lesser angels of human nature rampage and take their prodded course. And secondly, by picking some unfortunate soul to, in street terms, to frack with.., for giggles and grins. The victims are aware of what they are doing, although they have no clue why, other than if they don't do what they are told, physical torment will ensue.
Thus last week we saw Jack decorating a clearing in the woods with dead deer as well as fashionable floor lamps. This week, he finds them broken and smashed, and woundedly declares, "that was a PERFECTLY good lamp".... like a scorned housewife.
The plot is thickening nicely like Mamma's famous gumbo, as the heat continues to bring circumstances to a boil. Soups on!
This show is not good
I disliked this episode so much. Some essential elements of the book which were very possible to include were switched out for unnecessary and unimportant scenes.
5th episode is available today...
This show has a lot of potential but I'm not sure where it's landing yet, in regards to reality. It's more of a slowburn than I thought and it's desire to hit the 50-60 minutes per episode (at 10 episodes) may be it's undoing. Cynthia is the best thing about this show.
Still a little slow, but this is some good supernatural drama. As the saying goes, "when you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you." It steals your shine, then it eats you up, and now it's full on staring daggers at the investigators. Also, I don't trust Andy... yet?
How is it that Ralph believed that little girl about her nightmares and believed that boy with the van about the man wearing the hoodie but won’t believe his wife???
And I get that talking about El Coco on the phone sounds silly but Holly not wanting to tell Ralph until she gets to Georgia is so risky, I’m not sure she’s gonna make it and her boyfriend is kinda sketchy.
A question of belief and fear: what if the horror lurks within our own society, ready to present itself in any one of us?
King has long had his hand on the feelings of terror and anxiety surrounding evils done to children, but The Outsider presents it in a way that is scary because of how much the audience has figured out while our logic based protagonists still develop those same hypotheses.
Shout by LineageBlockedParent2020-02-02T22:19:06Z
I think one of the main reasons why I'm having a little trouble following this show and more specifically, coming up with something to write about each episode, is because there's so much going on, and so many scenes, and once you're getting more and more engaged in one line of the story, the scene changes to a different line of it. And that jumbles everything around in your brain, making it tough to focus enough on all of it, in general, enough for something to write about it to emerge itself. I would say binging the entire show would get rid of that problem for me, but I have no idea, and there's a part of me that thinks it wouldn't make a difference. Other than that, I'm decently engaged in the show, and I'm enjoying it very much, I just have trouble coming with something to write about each episode that will suffice. This episode, in particular, was good, just as good as every previous episode, and just like I'm sure every subsequent episode will be.