In the real world, she would be cleaning up on “Jeopardy!” Erivo, lately celebrated for her work as Harriet Tubman in Kasi Lemmons’ film “Harriet,” does not oversell the quirks. She sports a portfolio of phobias, OCD superstitions and social deficits, but she’s also hard to rattle and intensely focused, a human calculating machine cum encyclopedia.

Mercedes,” Holly is what consumers of media have learned to recognize as “on the spectrum,” or something beyond it. But circumstances make allies out of opposing teams and set them together, like an argumentative Scooby Gang, on a search for the truth.Ī character imported from King’s hard-boiled “Bill Hodges” trilogy, which came to television as the Audience series “Mr. Naturally, the authorities favor the incriminating evidence over the exculpatory. Possible?ĭeveloped for TV by Richard Price, whose novels (“The Wanderers,” “Clockers”) and screen credits (“The Color of Money,” “The Wire,” “The Night Of,” which he co-created) are all distinctly demon-free, “The Outsider” proceeds in its early stages - six of 10 episodes were available for review - largely as a police procedural.

Evidence says he did it, and yet equally convincing evidence puts him miles away at the time of the murder. One day, in the middle of a game, in front of his friends and everyone, he is arrested on suspicion of the rape, murder and mutilation of a neighborhood boy. He’s an English teacher, Little League coach, husband to wife Marcy (Julianne Nicholson), father to Jessa (Scarlett Blum) and Maya (Summer Fontana). the action has been moved from Oklahoma, presumably for the tax credits. (I prefer my Frankenstein with a side of Abbott and Costello.)īateman plays Terry Maitland, the nicest guy in Cherokee City, Ga. Some fright fans may find it slow, and anyone not equipped with night-vision goggles will find it literally dark, but there’s a lot to like here, even for viewers temperamentally liable to give grim creepshows such as this a wide berth. Jason Bateman, America’s Sweetheart, takes an unexpected step into horror as a producer and director of, and actor in, “The Outsider,” a miniseries adaptation of the 2018 Stephen King novel premiering Sunday on HBO.

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