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The Outsider
Genre
Based onThe Outsider
by Stephen King
Developed byRichard Price
Starring
Music byDaniel Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes10 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Ben Mendelsohn
  • Katharine Werner (pilot only)
  • David Auge
Cinematography
  • Igor Martinovic
  • Rasmus Heise
  • Zak Mulligan
  • Kevin McKnight
Editors
  • Leo Trombetta
  • Tad Dennis
  • Daniel James Scott
  • Dorian Harris
Running time50–60 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkHBO
ReleaseJanuary 12 (2020-01-12) –
March 8, 2020 (2020-03-08)
Related
Mr. Mercedes

The Outsider is an American horror crime drama television series based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. It was ordered to series on December 3, 2018,[1] after being optioned as a miniseries by Media Rights Capital in June 2018.[2] It premiered on HBO on January 12, 2020.[3] The 10-episode limited series will release to Blu-ray and DVD in the United States on June 9, 2020.[4]

Cast

Main

Recurring

  • Max Beesley as Seale Bolton
  • Derek Cecil as Andy Katcavage
  • Summer Fontana as Maya Maitland
  • Scarlett Blum as Jessa Maitland
  • Frank Deal as Fred Peterson
  • Dayna Beilenson as Mildred Patterson
  • Hettienne Park as Tamika Collins
  • Michael Esper as Kenneth Hayes
  • Claire Bronson as Joy Peterson
  • Michael H. Cole as Herbert Parker
  • Marc Fajardo as Myron Lazar
  • Margo Moorer as Libby Stanhope
  • Duncan E. Clark as Frankie Peterson
  • Joshua Whichard as Ollie Peterson
  • Wes Watson as Derek Anderson
  • Diany Rodriguez as María Canales
  • Suehyla El-Attar as Angela Kelly
  • Martin Bats Bradford as Heath Hofstadter
  • Jakob Gruntfest as Merlin Cassidy
  • Nicholas Pryor as Peter Maitland
  • Genevieve Hudson-Price as Skye
  • Susanna Guzman as Idilys Castro
  • Drez Ryan as Tracey Powell
  • Steve Witting as Herbert Zucker
  • Carlos Navarro as Detective Healy

Production

The series was announced in June 2018, with Richard Price hired to adapt the Stephen King novel.[2] HBO officially commissioned the series in December, with Ben Mendelsohn cast in the lead while serving as a producer. Jason Bateman executive produces and also stars in the series.[1]

In January 2019, the core main cast was set, seeing the additions of Cynthia Erivo, Bill Camp, Mare Winningham, Paddy Considine, Julianne Nicholson, Yul Vazquez, Jeremy Bobb and Marc Menchaca. Hettienne Park and Michael Esper appear in recurring roles.[5]

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byTeleplay byOriginal air dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
1"Fish in a Barrel"Jason BatemanRichard PriceJanuary 12, 2020 (2020-01-12)0.724[6]
In Cherokee City, Georgia, the mutilated corpse of Frank Peterson, a young boy, is found covered in saliva and human bite marks. Local detective Ralph Anderson quickly identifies strong evidence pointing to little league coach Terry Maitland, including testimony from multiple witnesses and security camera footage. Ralph, whose own late son was coached by Terry, is enraged, and has him publicly arrested at a little league game. Terry insists on his innocence, and his wife, Glory, promptly calls their family lawyer, Howard Salomon. Alec Pelley, a private investigator hired by Salomon, tracks down evidence that Terry was at an out-of-town conference at the time of the murder, including news footage of Terry speaking at the conference. Both sides are left with extremely decisive but contradictory evidence. Salomon is certain Terry will be vindicated, but Terry is left in jail waiting for his arraignment. Meanwhile, the Peterson family disintegrates, with Frank's mother suffering an emotional breakdown that escalates into a heart attack. A hooded figure with a grotesquely deformed face lingers outside the Maitlands' house, and Glory finds her younger daughter suffering from apparent nightmares of a man in her room telling her "bad things".
2"Roanoke"Jason BatemanRichard PriceJanuary 12, 2020 (2020-01-12)0.603[6]
Ralph meets Terry at the prison and expresses uncertainty about his decision to have Terry arrested so publicly. The next day, Joy Peterson, the mother of the victim dies at the hospital after collapsing at home. As Terry arrives at the courthouse for his arraignment, the murdered boy's brother opens fire, fatally wounding Terry before being killed by Ralph. With his dying breath, Terry insists on his innocence. The deformed man is shown watching the aftermath. Fred Peterson, the sole surviving member of the family, attempts suicide by hanging, but is only left comatose. Ralph is put on leave, and hot-headed detective Jack Hoskins is called to fill in. The case continues to gnaw at Ralph, who investigates the van used by the killer and identifies that it was in the same location as the Maitlands during a family trip earlier that year. While questioning a reluctant Glory about that trip, Ralph learns from her older daughter that Terry got a small cut on his wrist, supposedly from a male nurse at his father's nursing home. A farmhand discovers a pile of discarded clothes in a barn that match those that Terry was seemingly seen wearing on security footage after the murder.
3"Dark Uncle"Andrew BernsteinRichard PriceJanuary 19, 2020 (2020-01-19)0.858[7]
A disgruntled Jack Hoskins is sent to join the investigation at the barn where the clothing was discovered. After wasting time, he shows up late to the empty barn, where he is attacked by an unseen apparition. Over the following days, he develops strange welts on his body and his behavior grows increasingly erratic. Ralph goes to Howie Salomon and Alec Pelley with the information he's gathered on the van and the Maitlands' trip to Dayton. They contact eccentric savant investigator Holly Gibney to backtrack Terry's movements during the trip. While attempting to speak with Terry's father at his nursing home, Holly discovers that a male nurse at the institution was convicted of murdering two young girls around the time of the visit. The nurse is shown in prison concurrently, where he commits suicide to avoid being killed by another inmate. Jessa Maitland convinces Glory to let Ralph visit so she can relay a message, but during the meeting Glory refuses to let Ralph talk to Jessa. Ralph's wife is able to convince Glory to help with Jessa's "nightmare." Jessa expresses to Ralph's wife that the man she is seeing is transforming every time she sees him and he has a message for Ralph: Stop, or something bad will happen. Jessa expresses that Ralph should be the one that is scared.
4"Que Viene el Coco"Andrew BernsteinRichard PriceJanuary 26, 2020 (2020-01-26)0.988[8]
Holly's investigation in Dayton uncovers a pattern - individuals in different cities across the country who are accused of murdering children, with decisive forensic evidence incriminating them despite strong alibis, and a series of suicides and revenge kills in the families of both the victims and the accused in the aftermath of the crime, suggesting one killer who becomes a perfect doppelganger of various unassuming targets. In each case the doppelganger who committed the murder scratches a stranger before apparently assuming their form and repeating the pattern in this new target's city. Terry is the latest target of this being, with the nurse Heath Hofstadter preceding him in Dayton; in turn preceded by a woman named Maria Caneles in Harlem. A woman in Harlem explains her belief to Holly that the perpetrator is a supernatural boogeyman who feeds on the suffering of its victims and their families. An increasingly erratic Jack leaves furniture and a dead animal in the woods for the entity he is communicating with. Ralph identifies on security footage that local bouncer Claude Bolton was scratched on his wrist by Terry Maitland's doppelganger the night of the murder. The boy who carjacked the van comes forward, admitting to Ralph that he saw a man take the parked van in Dayton but was afraid to mention him before. He draws a picture of the man he saw, bearing a clear resemblance to the hooded, deformed figure seen around crime scenes in Cherokee City.
5"Tear-Drinker"Igor MartinovicRichard PriceFebruary 2, 2020 (2020-02-02)[a]0.567[10]
In Cherokee City, the hooded figure appears to Ralph's wife Jeannie, relaying a warning to Ralph that they will both be killed if he continues his investigation. Ralph brushes this off as a nightmare of Jeannie's, but is unsettled when her drawing of the intruder is extremely similar to the boy's drawing of the man who took the van. In Dayton, Holly theorizes about the shape-shifting creature killing children, and visits the cemeteries of both Heath Hofstadter and his alleged victims, finding dilapidated buildings nearby and photographing them, believing that the creature would live in these buildings to feed on the suffering of those visiting the graves. She also meets a man associated with Heath, who later commits suicide-by-cop and is shown to have the same sores on his neck as Jack. Holly suggests Ralph take photographs around Terry's grave, and Ralph's partner Yunis Sablo notices that the barn where the clothes were found is right by the cemetery. Holly opts to drive back to Cherokee City to debrief Ralph, Howie and Alec. The night before, she invites Andy Katcavage, a Dayton security officer with whom she's had a courtship, up to her room. Holly leaves the next morning but her car breaks down on the way out of Dayton. Andy finds her notes on the investigation and researches them. Continually terrorized by the unseen entity, Jack offers to help Ralph with his case.
6"The One About the Yiddish Vampire"Karyn KusamaJessie Nickson-LopezFebruary 9, 2020 (2020-02-09)0.792[11]
Holly returns to Cherokee City to report her findings. She gives evidence of how all the murders were connected and that she believes "an entity" is responsible for the killings and that the priority is to find the person most recently infected by it and to isolate them. This is received poorly by the police, especially Glory who berates them all for their incompetence. The entity punishes Jack for failing to stop Holly's investigation by appearing in the form of his deceased mother and severely beating him. Jeannie invites Holly to stay with her and Ralph at their house, where Jeannie increasingly believes in the entity due to the matching descriptions and Holly's theories. Ralph is still skeptical until Holly uses a blue light against the chair where the entity was sitting in Jeannie's dream and finds the same residue found in the barn, as well as fingerprints. Holly now believes the entity is "shedding" as it transforms into the monster that can kill children, but must use a host while it is vulnerable to do its bidding. Jack invites Holly to visit the barn where Terry's clothes were found, but while driving, she notices the rash on the back of his neck. Realizing her imminent danger, she tries to return to town but Jack tells her to continue driving.
7"In the Pines, In the Pines"Daina ReidDennis LehaneFebruary 16, 2020 (2020-02-16)1.077[12]
Ralph and Alec become suspicious about the simultaneous disappearance of Holly and Jack. They search Jack's apartment and find his blood everywhere, eventually tracking Holly and Jack's phones to the same location. Holly, meanwhile, manages to trick and abandon Jack at a gas station and drive away. Jack considers suicide, but cannot go through with it. Glory, after experiencing more difficulties in her first day back at work, finally decides to press charges against everyone that Howard suggested. Claude, feeling discomfort in a way he cannot explain, quits his job. When Holly reunites with the others (including Andy, who arrives as well), Yunis shares Claude's situation with her, and she angrily confronts Ralph about not revealing it to her earlier. She realizes that Claude's relevance to the case only reinforces her theories, while Ralph continues to struggle with reconciling the unexplainable nature of the events. Later that night, Holly awakens from a nightmare in which Jack killed her.
8"Foxhead"J.D. DillardRichard PriceFebruary 23, 2020 (2020-02-23)0.978[13]
Jack lures away the surveillance team surrounding his apartment, allowing him to break in, retrieve a large weapons cache, and drive away. Claude, meanwhile, travels to Tennessee to stay with his brother Seale. Holly vows to follow him so he can be both protected and, potentially, exonerated. Ralph, Yunis, and Andy agree to join her. To evade the police, Jack murders a local fisherman (who the entity, currently transforming into Claude, then consumes) and steals his car. Soon after Claude arrives in Tennessee, he is taken into custody by local police who have coordinated with the investigators to protect him. Claude, Seale, and the investigators converge on the Bolton house so they can keep track of Claude. Concurrently, the mid-transformation entity travels to a local festival and attempts to spirit away a young boy to feed on. Other festivalgoers manage to stop the entity, however, with the boy's grandfather getting in a scuffle with it before it flees. Meanwhile, Alec and Howard arrive to assist with the investigation. The next morning, local police arrive at the house looking for Claude. They meet with Ralph and Holly, showing them recorded footage of the festival scuffle, which reveals the entity to have a deformed version of Claude's face. Ralph and Holly realize the entity is close by.
9"Tigers and Bears"Charlotte BrändströmDennis LehaneMarch 1, 2020 (2020-03-01)1.185[14]
Because the entity's powers allow it to access any information Claude knows, the group decides to distract him while they search for it. The investigators manage to arrange interviews with the boy who the entity targeted and his grandfather. The boy explains the entity's description of a potential bear cave, while the grandfather describes being unsettled by the entity's face seeming mask-like. A parallel story during the episode, about a father searching for his two boys, is revealed to occur in 1947, when the bear cave collapsed and the search party starved to death. With the location also happening to be where most of the Bolton family is buried, the investigators conclude that is where the entity is hiding. Additionally, while this is occurring, D.A. Hayes learns of another young boy who has been killed in a manner similar to Frankie. Ralph, Holly, Yunis, Alec, and Andy travel to the cave. Seale recklessly reveals the plan to Claude, immediately alerting the entity to the situation; the entity forces Jack into action. Once the five investigators arrive at the site, Jack, armed with a sniper rifle, shoots Alec in the head, and then fires off several more shots.
10"Must/Can't"Andrew BernsteinRichard PriceMarch 8, 2020 (2020-03-08)1.371[15]
Howard, Claude, and Seale arrive at the scene; Seale charges Jack and is shot and killed. Andy attempts to drive away for help but Jack shoots him as well, then shoots the gas tank; Howard tries to rescue Andy but Jack ignites the gasoline, killing both Andy and Howard. When the entity commands Jack to kill Holly, Jack refuses. He approaches the others, begs them to kill the entity, then commits suicide. Ralph and Holly enter the cave and find the entity, who expresses disbelief that Holly discovered the truth about it but offers few details otherwise. Claude enters and shoots the entity, causing the cave to collapse; the entity is impaled by falling debris. Before the three exit the cave, Ralph returns to the entity and berates it, witnessing it attempt to transform before he crushes its head with a rock. Yunis contacts Hayes and implicates Jack and the entity. Claude and the investigators, with help from Jeannie and Glory, coordinate their stories. Hayes holds a press conference to exonerate Terry and re-open Frankie's case. In a mid-credits scene, Holly is shown to have the same cut on her arm that the entity gave to its other victims.
Notes
  1. ^ The episode was first made available on January 31, 2020, through HBO's digital platform.[9]

Related series

The character of Holly Gibney was first introduced by King in the Bill Hodges trilogy of novels. That trilogy has been adapted into the TV series Mr. Mercedes, which premiered on Audience in 2017 with Justine Lupe as Gibney.[16] The showrunner Richard Price reworked the character to some extent, without keeping the continuity with the Mr. Mercedes TV series or Bill Hodges novels (Price did not watch the series or read the novels), and asked Stephen King to rename the character, but King insisted on keeping the name Holly Gibney.[17]

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the series has an 81% rating with an average score of 7.33 out of 10 based on 64 reviews. The site's critical consensus is, "Though The Outsider's slow burn isn't always satisfying, it remains watchable thanks to its excellent performances – especially series stand out Cynthia Erivo."[18] On Metacritic, it has a score of 69 out of 100 based on 28 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[19]

Ratings

Viewership and ratings per episode of The Outsider
No. Title Air date Rating
(18–49)		 Viewers
(millions)		 DVR
(18–49)		 DVR viewers
(millions)		 Total
(18–49)		 Total viewers
(millions)
1 "Fish in a Barrel" January 12, 2020 0.18 0.724[6] 0.08 0.343 0.26 1.067[20]
2 "Roanoke" January 12, 2020 0.15 0.603[6] 0.08 0.293 0.23 0.896[20]
3 "Dark Uncle" January 19, 2020 0.19 0.858[7] 0.16 0.630 0.36 1.488[21]
4 "Que Viene el Coco" January 26, 2020 0.27 0.988[8] 0.18 0.662 0.45 1.650[22]
5 "Tear-Drinker" February 2, 2020 0.16 0.567[10] 0.18 0.664 0.34 1.231[23]
6 "The One About the Yiddish Vampire" February 9, 2020 0.22 0.792[11] 0.20 0.708 0.42 1.500[24]
7 "In the Pines, In the Pines" February 16, 2020 0.29 1.077[12] 0.20 0.620 0.49 1.697[25]
8 "Foxhead" February 23, 2020 0.27 0.978[13] 0.21 0.715 0.48 1.693[26]
9 "Tigers and Bears" March 1, 2020 0.33 1.185[14] 0.20 0.684 0.53 1.869[27]
10 "Must/Can't" March 8, 2020 0.40 1.371[15] TBD TBD TBD TBD

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External links

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