![]() ![]() ![]() The first six episodes of the ten-episode HBO drama, which the company assured me is NOT a miniseries, concern a boy in a small southern town who is viciously murdered, his corpse mutilated and defiled. But with jurisprudence being the most interesting boogeyman haunting its stellar cast, The Outsider’s arm’s length, obtuse, and homely take on the supernatural crime genre squanders plenty on its way to a mediocre mistrial. If we’re not the only us, then what exactly are we supposed to believe? The Outsider-which sees writer Richard Price adapting Stephen King’s exciting novel (one of his recent best, in my eyes)-becomes another variation on this theme for HBO, presenting a procedural where alibis, accusations, and evidence enter the realm of unreality. Doubles, in Dostoyevsky stories and Jordan Peele projects, confront us with the uncanny proof that we are not unique and infuse us with doubt. Doppelgängers lock eyes with their mirrored protagonists as representations of suppression, whether that be of unbridled id or an unstable identity. ![]()
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