The Outsider

He's commented a lot, but one of the things that he, uh, he's, he recommended a movie.

It's called, um, the killing of a Chinese bookie.

It's a Jim Cassavetes, John Cassavetes movie.

So we're going to do that after we get through our horror movie stuff.

So, um, but yeah, keep commenting, man.

Uh, once I read through all your comments, I'll say it probably, uh, On the Chinese bookie one.

But yeah, so keep leaving comments.

Love reading them.

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yeah like where yeah so anyway but a lot of mystery or detective shows now it's like follow along it's not you can figure this out with them it's you have no hope of figuring it out so just follow the leader and then hey look look what they discovered but you never we never put any hints or trails in it throughout the show or the movie whatever it would be um And we really like a lot of Jason Bateman's stuff, but we're on episode four or five of The Outsider.

Oh, I don't know that one.

It's on Crave.

Okay.

I need like blood, guts, lust, and a smart detective.

Is The Outsider a TV show or a movie? It's a limited series.

Okay.

Totally.

But specifically for King, he's directed Under the Dome, Mr. Mercedes, and The Outsider.

He even goes way back to directing Child's Play 3 in the early nineties, so he deeply understands the specific visceral flavor of terror associated with children.

Jake Dee's article specifically calls Bender one of the more trusted filmmakers to translate King's macabre sensibilities, and that word macabre is so perfect here.

He knows how to make the camera linger on a closed door just long enough to make your skin crawl.

He's a master of character-driven horror.

If you look at his work on The Outsider, which is just a masterpiece of mood, the scares are only effective because he takes the painstaking time to ground the characters in absolute mundane realism before introducing the supernatural elements.

You have to care about them first.

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Yeah, that Stephen King show The Outsider.

Yeah.

Like, the sort of like malevolent entity.

Yeah, and I

enjoyed The Outsider.

Oh, there you go.

There you go.

They made one season of that.

So The Outsider.

The Outsider.

Yeah, that's it.

The Outsider.

So somebody played Holly in Mr. Mercedes.

Somebody played Holly in The Outsiders.

And I can't remember which is which, but one of them was Cynthia Erivo.

I am aware, because even though I'm not a Stephen King reader, I'm a Stephen King watcher, and...

Like, I put so much fucking time into that one series show, like The Outsider, and that ending was like, what the fuck? Like, they barely even land the plane, but this is like beyond plane landing.

It is like fucking Sully taking us home.

And the ending is just so beautifully abrupt.

We're still rocking.

And what I really wanted to call about, we stumbled onto a show that I didn't realize it was all the way back from 2020, but The Outsider on HBO.

So good.

It's got Jason Bateman and Ben Mendelsohn, who's quickly becoming one of my favorites, actors.

I mean, the guy just plays such a good brooding character.

But yeah, The Outsider, just supernatural kind of cop procedural, basically everything that we did not get out of that last season of True Detective.

I thought you guys, maybe if you haven't seen it, it's just a really, really great show.

But anyway, yeah, keep it up.