HBO The Outsider

[Talisman]

Not sure about the post-credit scene, but the whole "Let's do this again sometime" seemed to set it up for another season of them investigating something else together. I guess she's the Mulder in the relationship. They could actually improve the pacing if they were investigating two or three cases during a season instead of one that's full of slow motion shots of people deep in thought.

[KCUnited]

This thing had been limping out but they still had me until El Cuco became visible. I'm sure that's not an easy concept to make visual, but woof, most non-terrifying monster scene ever.

[Sure-Oz]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

This thing had been limping out but they still had me until El Cuco became visible. I'm sure that's not an easy concept to make visual, but woof, most non-terrifying monster scene ever.

Was hoping they'd show a true form

[Talisman]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

This thing had been limping out but they still had me until El Cuco became visible. I'm sure that's not an easy concept to make visual, but woof, most non-terrifying monster scene ever.

They didn't even show some crazy eyes or sharper than normal teeth. It was just Claude, the strip club guy. They at least hinted at its facial changes right before it got its head crushed, but it was too little too late.

If they were going to go with the look-exactly-alike angle, they should have at least done a switcheroo at the end. Claude is killed in the partial cave collapse and the creature switches shirts with him so the hole from the shotgun blast shows on the dead guy. Creature wedges his leg under a rock and waits for rescue. Of course none of that is revealed to us until the end when Claude returns to his house and is splashing some water on his face. He looks up at the mirror and then we get one of those facial changes. At least then there would have been a reason for the ho-hum human appearance of this horribly dangerous beast.

[Baby Lee]

Not a great show. It was well scripted and well acted, but had a flawed foundation.

It's like, rather than telling a story, they were 'going for something.' That something being an ineffable struggle between rationality and the supernatural, and the plodding dread that accompanies the recognition that some things cannot be explained.
I can see how they were excited to tackle it, but it's the same old shit with King. Fascinating premise that peters out like a wet fart.
The actors did their best, but they started with an idea without a resolution.