Outer Range

“The Outer Range” may be a damaged family drama with the catchy hook of inexplicable, uncanny genre, but its most profound and moving qualities may be its ideas of faith and meaning and what happens when the unexplainable shatters what’s left of your beliefs.

The revelations that came after "Outer Range" had made its "Yellowstone"-on-'shrooms debut were outrageously farfetched and fanciful. But one returns to season 2 eager to see where it can all go, which is well beyond what one is likely to expect.

Always weird, sometimes annoying, but frequently fascinating, Outer Range has Yellowstone's same sense of a cowboy family unaware that it has lived out its time—but in this case, the encroachment is not being done by modernity, but something antediluvian that's returned for a possession it left behind.

Quirky, strange, dark — and engaging.

Outer Range season two is unlikely to thrill all but the most devoted fans of its first outing. And while there’s still a decent framework and a game set of actors, there’s no escaping the reality that things will need to click fast if it has any hope of reaching its planned ending.

Outer Range has expansive scenery (when it can be seen), and decent performances from Brolin, Taylor, and Poots. But neither its family drama and supernatural elements are compelling enough to make up for the show’s slow pace.

I do wish it had just decided to rip off “Yellowstone.” Brolin’s good and if the series eschewed the sci-fi conceit there’s enough good actors here to at least make it entertaining. But slathering a sci-fi element on top of it and not understanding what tone to strike doesn’t lead to oil, it leads to crap.

Just the thing we need in a sci fi series. Think an American Dark, but a western also, with Leftovers vibes. Brolin is so talented. He can do so much by saying so little. Interesting characters. A slow burn that might frustrate viewers with ADD, but if you like things that keep you guessing and hypothesizing, this type of science fiction and the way it's delivered, it's just solid gold for heady sci fi fans. Great editing too, which also keeps one guessing harder.

The show feels a lot like the German Netflix masterpiece "Dark". It creates similar intrigue. It has some of the best acting you will see in a show. But unlike Dark, this show feels like it doesn't actually have a plan. It feels like the writers and directors don't know where the show is going, so they're throwing in a vague hint of story while dragging the show along until it eventually gets axed. If the show gets renewed for a 3rd season (which is highly unlikely} and they announce that it will be the last season, then I think this could be an excellent show with an excellent wrap up. If they instead get axed, or they give no hint of a finale. Then the show is probably still worth watching. Just keep in mind that it's a show designed to create intrigue and lead you toward a resolution. If there's no intent of actually providing a resolution, thenthe show would have done a lot better if they never included scifi and left it as a modern western family drama.

It's a decent show but does seem to lack focus. I'm excited to see a season 2 that can improve upon the first.

Forget about all the hole through time mumbo jumbo. This show is set up on some family rivalry where one family murders the son of another family and covers it up, then wants us to believe that the first family, headed by a monotone Josh Brolin are the good guys and the family who's son has been murdered are actually the bad guys, simply because they are money hungry ****? I'm not sure if the show is trying to be morally ambiguous or if the writers have no clue what they are doing. I am guessing the latter, as with all these overhyped TV series a bunch of straight out of university woke minded writers are hired who have no life experience and are utterly confused about what is right and wrong. The Sci-fi stuff feels very *Lost* like with no end in site...

This show checks so many dei-esg boxes, you'll lose count, but it is also a mess, and it doesn't know what tone it is trying to set at many times. It is is very reminiscent of LOST. And, it becomes more messy with more needless woke jabs as it goes on because it never had a clear direction in the beginning--like LOST. So far, season two only seems to double down on this. It seems interesting because it slowly unfolds, and the messiness often comes off as mysterious and meaningful, so you might think your enjoying it from time to time, if that's your thing. But it is just a mess if you actually take the time to think about the character behaviors and several plot points and endless "puzzles" that mostly have now **** points. A waste of some very very good **** a few not so good ones, too.