And suffice to say, it did not disappoint. Fans of the genre will no doubt be enthralled, while others may long for a touch of levity.Ĭreated by the great Richard Price (responsible for The Night Manager, but having also worked on fantastic shows such as The Wire and The Deuce), starring Ben Mendelsohn, Cynthia Erivo and other notable names - this show immediately had a lot going for it. Mendelsohn, too, is a steady centerpiece, confidently playing a flawed, emotionally broken lawman whose poker face perseveres even as his rage threatens to boil over. Their focus is on the peculiarities of the mystery and the procedural aspects of the investigation, which are unpacked with grace and clarity via interrogations and well-executed time jumps. Thankfully, Price and Bateman, the latter of whom helms the first two episodes, don't revel in the misery, with Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans' skeletal, string-forward score serving to frame and compartmentalize the show's fountains of grief. Then he shows us all the things that go wrong next. Novelist Richard Price, also no slouch in the TV department (The Wire, The Deuce, The Night Of), uses these two hours to drop in on that chain at several starting points, showing us how the careful gathering of evidence leads inexorably to an arrest that, based on what we're shown, is both inevitable and correct, and horribly wrong. HBO's choice to air these first two unrelentingly grim episodes back to back is a smart one-and not just because it's the perfect set-up for some clever, tension-easing joke about how director and star Jason Bateman can possibly be in two places at once. An unnerving question lingers: How can someone be in two places at the same time? And, as quick as it surfaced, the forensic evidence begins to contradict itself.
FBI detective Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn), observing eerie footage of Terry staring down cameras on the night of the murder, ponders if he's "begging us to catch him." He's not, though.
In fact, the first episode of HBO's new series, adapted from Stephen King's 2018 novel, chronicles what appears to be the world's most open-and-shut case: Terry Maitland (Jason Bateman), a local coach and teacher, is fingered by a slew of witnesses, and his DNA is blanketed across the crime scene. The Outsider opens with the discovery of a dead boy in suburban Georgia, but who killed him is no mystery.
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