Outer Range - Amazon Prime - (***Spoilers***)

If slow-burn drama featuring a host of odd-ball characters with the addition of a sci-fi element is your thing, this should be of interest. The sci-fi element is introduced early, but it turns out the increasing bizarreness of the characters

The tone is quite uneven, and by the end, it goes nuts. However, it's not just nuts, it's the mutt's nuts. Excellent stuff that starts off slow and broody and morphs from a cowboy low-key sci-fi mystery into Leftovers/Dark style territory.

Can't wait for season 2.

hrmmm.. wonder if that will affect the feel of the show

Nice.

Hopping there’s plenty more hole action.

I find this quite similar to Dark, even down to the audio effects/music, and flickering lightbulbs. A bit too much like it. Entertaining enough though.

Just finished re-watching season 1 before I start on season 2. If a series is good, I'll usually watch the last episode of the previous season; after dipping into the last episode, I realized I had to dip into the penultimate one. Then I realized I had to watch the whole lot again because there was so much I had forgotten. Really glad I did - there was some crucial scenes that I'm not even sure I had realized the importance of first time round. Just as enjoyable on a re-watch, maybe even more so.

Yes I think this is very good and I think S2 was better than S1. Will Patton is a great actor, seen him in a lot of things recently, and I like the native Indian's County Sheriff performance as well. Some great imagary, although fictionally set in Wymoing shot in New Mexico and California. Looking forward to season 3 and I'd image that would be the last.

I wasn't impressed with S2. I think a good marker of the longevity potential for a high concept show is what happens and changes in season 2 vs. 1; what was answered, were new concepts and questions raised etc. If so the writers have a competent plan forward, and if not they had some cool ideas initially and don't really know where to go with them (let alone add more). So what changed from S1 to S2? Pretty much nothing, things happened in a fairly predictable manner (some of them repainted repeats of S1 storybeats) and we learned absolutely nothing new. It's well made but tbh S2 may aswell not have happened, it didn't advance the story at all.

I guffawed when I read this, and was going to respond, starting with "I couldn't fail to disagree more", but realized even apart from the two main things you've listed, there's so much stuff that did move the story forward that it it'd be too big a task. It's only then that I realized that there is no reference to Outer Range in the post. It's like a cut'n'paste critique from a generic film school script analysis. Nonsense when applied to Outer Range.

There were events but the story itself did not move significantly - the difference between What and Why. Since it was brought up the cross time character links were obvious even before spelled out at the end of season 1, so absolutely nothing new there. Some characters went in, some came out, but nothing really new happened in terms of concept. Zip. If you are watching this like a soap and are happy to see the same things happening to different people sure I can see why you think there's enough moving it along, if you care about the high-concept aspect then I can't believe you're that easily satisfied.