The Outsider
The Outsider is an American psychological thriller-horror crime drama television series based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Stephen King, adapted for television by Richard Price. It was ordered to series on December 3, 2018, after being optioned as a miniseries by MRC in June 2018. It premiered on HBO on January 12, 2020. It stars Ben Mendelsohn, Cynthia Erivo, Bill Camp, Paddy Considine, Julianne Nicholson, and Jason Bateman (who also directed the first two episodes).
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| Music by | Daniel Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans
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| No. of episodes | 2 (list of episodes)
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| Cinematography | Igor Martinovic
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| Original release | January 12, 2020 –
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- Including her title role in Harriet (2019), this is the second straight featured character Cynthia Erivo has portrayed empowered with clairvoyant or spiritually psychic abilities.
- The fight between Jack Hoskins and his dead mother was unique to the show; no such fight exists in the novel. Besides Jack's few mentions of his mother dying of skin cancer, her physical presence in the novel, spectral or not, is nonexistent.
- In the novel, when Jeannie encounters The Outsider in her home late at night, she describes him as looking exactly like Claude Bolton, not the disfigured face she draws.
- Bill Camp and Mare Winningham also acted together in the 2019 film Dark Waters.
- In the novel, the "affliction" that appears on the back of Jack Hoskins neck is feared by him to be skin cancer. He fears this due to his mother dying of skin cancer and The Outsider taunting him with that fact. In the novel it is described as looking like severe sun burn that is blistering over.
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