The Shootout
And WHAT A BODY COUNT. Hooooo. Look, everyone knew poor Andy was dying. We were worried about him before he even left Ohio. It's sad, but he was the tragic cost Holly was going to have to endure. Everyone else though? Alec (who died instantly), Howie, and Seale? This was shocking and maniacal massacre. As much as the series stretched things out a bit too much, an argument can be made that if we hadn't spent so much time with these fellows, their deaths would have resonated as hollow at the end. And we certainly would never have believed a moment like Howie racing into danger to save Andy, who couldn't be saved really, from a truck under fire. The Jack attack took up a good third of the episode. The thundercrack of the sudden violence played well, but ultimately the way it all got solved, with a sake-bit Jack ending his own life, didn't feel right. Why stop when he stopped? It felt a little to molded and manufactured for him to kill over everyone who wasn't local law that could cover up the incident afterwards. He basically left the two leads alive and then - boom! - took himself out. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-15-best-horror-tv-shows-of-the-last-10-years&captions=true"]El Cuco
The showdown with El Cuco also felt a little flat. It wasn't bad, it just felt like it was missing something. Like a few more lines of dialogue before Claude came in and took the creature down with a shotgun. At first, because we briefly left that room with Holly and Ralph, it seemed like the show might be pulling a switcheroo. As in, when they both came back in and found Claude injured, it might have secretly been El Cuco swapping places with him in order to escape. It would certainly explain the scratch on Holly (more on that in a sec) since she's the one who helped him walk out of the cave. But Ralph "killed" El Cuco. The creature he confronted, which was still alive, was most definitely the monster. And since Ralph was one of the most hesitant people to believe in its existence, he actually got to see its face morph and change into the people it had transformed into before, including Terry. Ralph didn't even need that type of confirmation, by that point, but he got it anyhow. Heh, and even before that, Ralph saw ghosts! Dead souls in the cave from that failed rescue mission. That's huge (for the show, and him) and yet it felt kind of shuffled into the deck here. It's the reason he knew El Cuco was still alive and it felt like a huge element of El Cuco's powers, or something supernaturally new that exists within the world of the show, that shouldn't have been thrown it right at the end. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/12/06/hbos-the-outsider-official-trailer-ben-mendelsohn-jason-bateman"]The Ending Explained/Season 2?
As Holly left to head back home, Ralph asked her what else she thought might be out there in the world? Meaning, what other wonders and/or horrors? Were there any more "outsiders?" It was almost like he was asking "Hey, do you think we'll come back for a Season 2?" Given that there wasn't quite enough story here to last ten episodes, a second season might not be the best idea Still, Holly and Ralph are both compelling characters so they could probably carry us into a new case where they chase after a new monster. They'd have to get a whole new entourage though, for sure. Everyone else got smoked. Anyhow, The Outsider took a long time tucking the story in for bedtime at the end so, aside from the mid-credit stinger, there's not much here to feed into further adventures. So then...about the very last scene. Holly seeing a vision of Jack could either mean El Cuco was still alive and messing with her mind or she was just having some type of traumatic flashback. It's very possible the creature is still around since the series spent a lot of time questioning whether or not it could be killed. It was the topic of more than a few conversations. Then there's the scratch on Holly's arm. Not on her back or shoulder, or somewhere where, over the course of days, she might miss seeing it, but right there on her forearm. We see it, very briefly, as Holly sits listening to that song that Ralph told her about -- his mom's favorite song that played omg the radio on the night his son was being born, “Washington Square” by The Village Stompers. The cut could come from the cave and all the rocks that were falling. Or it could be El Cuco since it's the same type of scratch it gave people. But if it was, how did she get it? She didn't tussle with him. All in all, it didn't feel like an earned, or informed, "gotcha!" It was meant to be vague, and it didn't hold much water, or weight, if one was looking to read the moment as Holly being in danger.from IGN Reviews https://ift.tt/2vPosxW
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