Limited series (1 season) on HBO this January.
This is from Richard Price: a writer for The Night Of, The Wire, and The Deuce.
This is from Richard Price: a writer for The Night Of, The Wire, and The Deuce.
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HBO & Stephen King's "The Outsider" | OT | Starring Jason Bateman, Cynthia Erivo, and Ben Mendelsohn (No Book Spoilers)
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Didn't know the show but thanks to this it's going on my watchlist
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Started reading the book after finding out Ben Mendelsohn was in this. I'm in the last few pages of it, and the first half of the book is fantastic. I'm hoping they alter up the ending, because the twist has not been nearly as exciting as the build up.
Having read the book The Outsider is NOT true detective at all.
I'm not talking about a direct comparison, true detective has a great atmosphere, it was a bit surreal and had a great mystery to it that many shows lack and that it was dark in a way that most TV shows aren't. I hope the outsider can capture some of it.
If that is the story your looking for I'll think you'll be disappointed.
I personally loved True Detective and this novel but if this follows closely to the novel the mystery will be solved in episode 2 or 3.
What was your understanding of what I wrote? because I feel as if we don't understand each other or maybe it's me, which would be fair I'm not doing a good job of describing what I meant.
If you don't want to get into it than it's alright, anyways The outsiders looks very interesting, HBO is really delivering it with True detective S1 and Sharp objects.
The first half or so was great, but then tumbled downhill to a pretty boring conclusion.
So, standard King fare, honestly.
I'm one of those that liked the book plus you get that HBO quality so personally I cannot wait for this one.
For what it's worth King was sharing the trailer on Facebook (normal he does that for most adaptions) and praising it saying it may be the most quality adaption of his stuff ever( a lot rarer sort of praise, even when promoting he will usually be honest when he thinks it's shit.)
And third as someone else said if King stuff is your alley you should be watching Castle Rock S2. As for those saying I saw season 1 and didn't like it, not convinced, ended with a thud...Trust me watch S2. Those who hated S1 but wanted to love it actually maybe more important than randoms when I say S2 is just a whole upper level of everything from S1.
For what it's worth King was sharing the trailer on Facebook (normal he does that for most adaptions) and praising it saying it may be the most quality adaption of his stuff ever( a lot rarer sort of praise, even when promoting he will usually be honest when he thinks it's shit.)
And third as someone else said if King stuff is your alley you should be watching Castle Rock S2. As for those saying I saw season 1 and didn't like it, not convinced, ended with a thud...Trust me watch S2. Those who hated S1 but wanted to love it actually maybe more important than randoms when I say S2 is just a whole upper level of everything from S1.
Is S2 done?
I liked S1 until the final ep, so no matter the praise I'm not touching S2 until the final ep has aired and isn't a complete non-ending letdown like S1.
Almost and there is no way it could have a non-ending. Plus even as a completely seperate anthology style story, it does address the kid so those who didn't like the ambiguity may get closer to the answers they were looking for, can't say much more than that without spoiling though.
I like Bateman...he is pretty good in Ozark,lets hope it keeps up here...2 episodes tonight according to my Guide.
One, this a limited miniseries and actors can sign up for multiple projects.
Two, Ozark is one of Netflix's most watched shows.
Three, this fear mongering is annoying.
Yeah, and Ozark just got an order for another season.
I'm shocked at how much of the book was covered in the first episode. I'm curious how they will drag it out for 10 episodes.
King be eating lately lol
So far the adaptions have been really good, so I'm ok with it.
