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The Outsider: Must/Can't (2020)
Exciting start, but fizzles out
This episode was a good metaphor for the entire first season.
High action, devastation at every turn, the season's climax and confrontation between the diety and it's once biggest skeptic. The first part of this episode were extremely satisfying and made good on the anticipation from the end of last week's episode.
I felt as if the remaining portion of the finale dragged out and the closure I wanted to feel seemed a little emotionally underwhelming. The Lieutenant made an interesting point about the firefight resembling D-Day, and the trauma seemed to escape them fairly quickly. One would think that a show that relies on a premise where the laws of the natural world come into contact with a supernatural, shapeshifting, murderous figure would approach it with a greater sense of terror upon its wrath. Either this wasn't explored or explained enough at any point for me after consuming an entires season.
In regards to the cliffhanger surrounding Holly, my only question is HOW? I simply don't understand how El Cuco could reveal its many faces in one body after it was supposedly transferred to Holly's forearm.
This show was excellent at times and frustrating at others. I will watch Season 2, but I worry that a lack of source material will doom it like many other shows before it that tried to take its own creative directions.