"The Outsider": Crafting Stephen King's suburban horror despite a New York state of mind
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"The Outsider": Crafting Stephen King's suburban horror despite a New York state of mind

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Richard Price writes the city. Adapting Stephen King's "The Outsider," then, required Price to stretch beyond his comfort zone in a few respects. This is a Stephen King story by way of Price, which automatically takes "The Outsider" beyond Price's comfort zone. But much of tension driving "The Outsider" springs from a sense of suburban alienation and separateness, a sensibility made most apparent by way of casting Cynthia Erivo as Holly Gibney, a neuroatypical sleuth and a recurring character in Stephen King's universe. And then I've been reading the reviews and somebody said, "Well, it's a metaphor for fear of contagion, fear of loners, and this world today," you know, high schools and terrorists and stuff like that.

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The slow dread of "The Outsider," HBO's series that defies Stephen King expectations
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The slow dread of "The Outsider," HBO's series that defies Stephen King expectations

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Taking on Stephen King, even by way of a story like "The Outsider," attaches expectations to a film or TV series that aren't always met. Between that and Bateman's directorial gloom coloring the first two episodes of "The Outsider" – the Emmy winner for "Ozark" is an executive producer of the series who directs the first two hours – the …

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