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Plot: As Detective Ralph Anderson investigates the murder of a local boy, the mysterious circumstances surrounding the crime lead him to bring in Holly Gibney, an unorthodox private investigator with the ability to explain the unexplainable.

Our Take: I was so ready for this series after being supremely let down by Doctor Sleep; I wanted to reconnect with the Stephen King Multiverse, and "The Outsider" is one of the finest adaptations of King's work to date. The depictions of brutality are a tough sit, and Ben Mendelsohn's character is a Scully type to an extreme, but Cynthia Erivo's take on the Mulder role is so extraterrestrial, the balance between these two forces is surely enough to defeat an ancient evil, right? I truly hope creator Richard Price makes like "Fleabag" and resists the call to continue this story. — Arno

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