This started out kinda cool but I will warn you, it gets boring and stays that way for most of the season. This is a story that could have been handled in two hours. For some reason, they stretched this out with scenes of extremely long car rides and very meaningless dialog. A few of the characters are interesting but it isn't enough. So with all the show choices these days, I would pass on this and find something better. It isn't even scary. Sure, it's mysterious for a while but once the mystery is solved (and it's solved rather early on) I found it pointless and dumb.

**_Starts very strong but the narrative weakens as the show progresses_** > Tuvo a todo el mundo en poco; > fue el espantajo y el coco > del mundo, en tal coyuntura, > que acreditó su ventura > morir cuerdo y vivir loco. - Miguel de Cervantes; _El ingenioso caballero don Quijote de La Mancha_ (1615) > Reality is thin ice, but most people skate on it their whole lives and never fall through until the very end. We did fall through, but we helped each other out. - Stephen King; _The Outsider_ (2018) If you ever wondered what the first season of _True Detective_ might have looked like had the merely-hinted-at supernatural elements become more than merely hinted at, then _The Outsider_ gives you a possible answer. Starting as a grim and gritty police procedural, the show takes a left turn in the third episode, before diving head-first into the supernatural in the sixth and seventh. And do these two tones mix well? Kind of. The early episodes are easily the strongest, and as the hokey horror elements start to take over, the foreboding portentousness of those beautifully constructed episodes gives way to Stephen King-isms. Relatable themes such as guilt and the paralysis of grief are dropped in favour of larger (and thus more abstract) issues such as the infectious nature of evil and the ability of ordinary people to band together in extraordinary circumstances (as I said, it's K…

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