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|ShortSummary = 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. |
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The Outsider | |
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Genre | |
Based on | The Outsider by Stephen King |
Developed by | Richard Price |
Starring | |
Music by | Daniel Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 10 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers |
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Cinematography |
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Running time | 50–60 minutes |
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Original release | |
Network | HBO |
Release | January 12 March 8, 2020 | –
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Mr. Mercedes |
The Outsider is an American horror crime drama miniseries 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]
Cast
Main
- Ben Mendelsohn as Det. Ralph Anderson
- Bill Camp as Howard Salomon
- Jeremy Bobb as Alec Pelley
- Julianne Nicholson as Glory Maitland
- Mare Winningham as Jeannie Anderson
- Paddy Considine as Claude Bolton
- Yul Vazquez as Yunis Sablo
- Jason Bateman as Terry Maitland
- Marc Menchaca as Jack Hoskins
- Cynthia Erivo as Holly Gibney
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
Production
The miniseries 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.[4]
Episodes
No. | Title | Directed by | Teleplay by | Original release date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |||
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1 | "Fish in a Barrel" | Jason Bateman | Richard Price | January 12, 2020 | 0.724[5] | |||
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 Bateman | Richard Price | January 12, 2020 | 0.603[5] | |||
Ralph meets Terry at the prison and expresses uncertainty about his decision to have Terry arrested. 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 Bernstein | Richard Price | January 19, 2020 | 0.858[6] | |||
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4 | "Que Viene el Coco" | Andrew Bernstein | Richard Price | January 26, 2020 | 0.988[7] | |||
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5 | "Tear-Drinker" | Igor Martinovic | Richard Price | February 2, 2020[a] | 0.567[9] | |||
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6 | "The One About the Yiddish Vampire" | Karyn Kusama | Jessie Nickson-Lopez | February 9, 2020 | 0.792[10] | |||
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7 | "In the Pines, In the Pines" | Daina Reid | Dennis Lehane | February 16, 2020 | 1.077[11] | |||
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. Dillard | Richard Price | February 23, 2020 | 0.978[12] | |||
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 Brändström | Dennis Lehane | March 1, 2020 | 1.185[13] | |||
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 Bernstein | Richard Price | March 8, 2020 | N/A | |||
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
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.[14] 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.[15]
Reception
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the series has an 81% rating with an average score of 7.32 out of 10 based on 58 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."[16] On Metacritic, it has a score of 69 out of 100 based on 28 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[17]
Ratings
No. | Title | Air date | Rating (18–49) |
Viewers (millions) |
DVR (18–49) |
DVR viewers (millions) |
Total (18–49) |
Total viewers (millions) |
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1 | "Fish in a Barrel" | January 12, 2020 | 0.18 | 0.724[5] | 0.08 | 0.343 | 0.26 | 1.067[18] |
2 | "Roanoke" | January 12, 2020 | 0.15 | 0.603[5] | 0.08 | 0.293 | 0.23 | 0.896[18] |
3 | "Dark Uncle" | January 19, 2020 | 0.19 | 0.858[6] | 0.16 | 0.630 | 0.36 | 1.488[19] |
4 | "Que Viene el Coco" | January 26, 2020 | 0.27 | 0.988[7] | 0.18 | 0.662 | 0.45 | 1.650[20] |
5 | "Tear-Drinker" | February 2, 2020 | 0.16 | 0.567[9] | 0.18 | 0.664 | 0.34 | 1.231[21] |
6 | "The One About the Yiddish Vampire" | February 9, 2020 | 0.22 | 0.792[10] | 0.20 | 0.708 | 0.42 | 1.500[22] |
7 | "In the Pines, In the Pines" | February 16, 2020 | 0.29 | 1.077[11] | 0.20 | 0.620 | 0.49 | 1.697[23] |
8 | "Foxhead" | February 23, 2020 | 0.27 | 0.978[12] | 0.21 | 0.715 | 0.48 | 1.693[24] |
9 | "Tigers and Bears" | March 1, 2020 | 0.33 | 1.185[13] | 0.20 | 0.684 | 0.53 | 1.869[25] |
References
- ^ a b Andreeva, Nellie (December 3, 2018). "HBO Orders 'The Outsider' Drama Series Based On Stephen King Novel Starring Ben Mendelsohn From Jason Bateman & MRC". Deadline. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
- ^ a b Fleming Jr, Mike (June 11, 2018). "Richard Price To Script MRC 10-Episode Series Adaptation Of Stephen King's 'The Outsider;' Jack Bender, Marty Bowen EPs". Deadline. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
- ^ Petski, Denise (October 17, 2019). "'The Outsider': Stephen King Series Adaptation Gets HBO Premiere Date". Deadline. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
- ^ Petski, Denise (January 25, 2019). "'The Outsider': Cynthia Erivo, Bill Camp, Mare Winningham, Paddy Considine, Julianne Nicholson Among 10 Cast In HBO Drama Series". Deadline. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
- ^ a b c d Metcalf, Mitch (January 14, 2020). "Updated: ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.12.2020". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
- ^ a b Metcalf, Mitch (January 22, 2020). "Updated: ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.19.2020". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
- ^ a b Metcalf, Mitch (January 28, 2020). "Updated: ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.26.2020". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
- ^ Young, Alex (January 31, 2020). "HBO releases new episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Outsider, and Avenue 5 early". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
- ^ a b Metcalf, Mitch (February 4, 2020). "Updated: ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.2.2020". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
- ^ a b Metcalf, Mitch (February 11, 2020). "Updated: ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.9.2020". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
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- ^ a b Metcalf, Mitch (March 3, 2020). "Updated: ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.1.2020". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
- ^ Ehrlich, Brenna (October 17, 2019). "Holly Gibney's Back in New Trailer for Stephen King's 'The Outsider'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
- ^ Maglio, Tony (January 15, 2020). "Here's the One Thing Stephen King Put His Foot Down About for HBO's 'The Outsider'". TheWrap. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
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- ^ "The Outsider (2020): Season 1". Metacritic. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
- ^ a b Pucci, Douglas (January 17, 2020). "Live+3 Weekly Ratings: 'The Bachelor' Season Premiere Leads Unscripted Telecasts in Raw Adults 18-49 Boosts". Programming Insider. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
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