User Reviews

I know some of the people here complained about the pace of the episode but it was satisfying for me because, like the book, it has to build an atmosphere and characters. They are following the book. It is what it supposed to be.

Upon watching this episode, and finishing it, I'm baffled how there are ten episodes, with six left. A good amount of progress has already been made in these four episodes, as well as in this episode, alone. Just what else could occur that takes up the runtime of six more episodes? I mean, I don't have a problem with that, if that's how it seems. If anything, I'm curious. As far as this episode is concerned, it's the best one, yet.

The plot thickens! This show just keeps getting better.

Spinning its wheels. That's what I think about this episode of "The Outsider" on reflection. I'm going to need things to speed up a bit if it's going to maintain my interest.

Holly Gibney's (Cynthia Erivo) investigation tracks back further and further, as she discovers contact between Hofstader (Martin Bradford) and another convicted child killer, Maria Caneles (Diany Rodriguez). She denies much contact between herself and Hofstander and continues to protests her innocence but refuses to name who, or what, she believes was behind the murders. Meanwhile, Jack Hoskins (Marc Menchaca) continues to behave erratically.

So, I still feel like this is well performed, nicely shot stuff, I like the characters and I enjoy a slow burn mystery but it's becoming increasingly frustrating to watch the show with us, as the audience, so far ahead of the investigation team. "It's some sort of supernatural entity that can look like people", (Yes, we've guessed that from the start). "Its power is transmitted by scratching the other person" (Yes, we've known that from the 2nd episode). I'm ready for something else to happen now. I need something unexpected to happen, maybe something with Paddy Considine and his character will be the inspiration I'm looking for. (Congratulations to the set dressers, by the way, for creating a more depressing strip club than the one in Ozark).

I'm not ready to give up yet, but the source novel's Wikipedia summary is starting to look more appealing.

I enjoyed the first and the second episodes, the third was a big disappointment, static and absolutely irrelevant with anything. In the fourth we see some "movement" and thus we can conclude "it's still alive", but it really goes nowhere.These Series had the potential to be great.

The first 2 episodes were an easy 9/10, perhaps a 10/10 each. The third episode was a clear 8/10 to 9/10. This episode, with it's method acting and semi-coherent story telling, jumped aroun meanderingdall over the place. This episode took quite a dip.

Jumped the shark. Holly is so overacted and her role has taken precedence over the other characters. This episode lost all of it's steam. I'm out :(

2.5 out of 5 stars.

The concept and story is good and entertaining. The script and direction is very slow moving. Has yet to improve. Kind of hard to stay interested.

Trying to be to artsy with all of the blurry filming.

Half of the screen and backgrounds are a blur.

I thought I needed new contacts.

I honestly had to fast-forward some bits that were getting very dull. I'm quite shocked at the shows praise compared to Under The Dome (2013) or even The Mist Tv Show (2017).

This show really needs to step up because if this keeps up, I'm just going to read the book and forget about this HBO show.

This director tries too hard to stamp and restamp his little trademarks onto the episodes he directs. Apparently, the only trademark he's capable of is the out of focus depth of field photography. I can imagine the cameraman blowing air out of his mouth with each instruction for an out of focus shot that trails into focus. That kind of shot is unhelpful to the production unless it's used to build suspense, which is clearly not the case here.

Looking into Bernstein's work history, there are several series in which he is credited for a single episode. Does that indicate that he's hard to work with, or a sign of dissatisfaction with his quirks? At any rate he fumbles this episode. The script for this one diverges far afield from the novel's story, which is usually a sign of a showrunner telling the writers to "do something different". Often the showrunner is a writer, which may be the case here, but sometimes the showruner is a director or a producer.

Whoever came up with this episode, it was a failure both in writing and in direction.