![]() ![]() The Outsider gives him the interesting opportunity to take that style and apply it to a story that is, well, of Stephen King’s imagination. ![]() ![]() Price has written a lot of fiction, film, and television about murder investigation (and other crime-y things) with his trademark gritty realism flecked with the weary poetics of the everyday. I think I like it? It helps immensely that Richard Price is doing much of the writing. ![]() Which makes The Outsider both really enveloping and kind of exhausting, a deliberate, ponderous mystery that grinds and allures. But on premium cable of the new millennium, King’s mood of impossible despair-slow, oppressive, headache-y horror that really seeps into your skin-has time to build. The series is based on a novel by Stephen King, a master of suffocating dread whose work is usually condensed into film form (or, often in the old days, into janky network TV miniseries). If a midnight-black crime series like True Detective just isn’t enough for you, its scope too limited to the bounds of the tangible world and thus not scary enough, perhaps HBO’s latest investigation show, The Outsider (premiering January 12), will do the trick. ![]()
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