![]() ![]() Terry is a respected, even beloved, member of his community, and what makes his involvement in the murder particularly horrific is the way in which he barely seemed to try to hide it. That core story concerns a small community in Georgia that's shaken to its core when a local boy turns up brutally murdered, and the prime suspect turns out to be Terry Maitland (Jason Bateman), the local little league coach. The core story is still there, it's all still kicked off by the same horrific incident, and most of the characters are quite recognizable, but the show has gone its own way with much of the rest. For various reasons, including a need to sustain the tension of the show over the course of 10 hours instead of a film's two, the miniseries has taken plenty of liberties both large and small with King's tale. ![]() Though fans don't tend to associate major plot changes with good adaptations of books they love, in the case of The Outsider, change is turning out to be a very good thing. It's achieved this thanks to a relentless sense of creeping dread, a tremendous ensemble cast and, perhaps most crucially, a keen sense of what to keep and what to change within King's original narrative. Over the course of eight episodes so far, the Richard Price-led adaptation of King's 2018 novel has proved a compelling and often haunting vision of the tale of a town torn apart by an unseen supernatural force. ![]() Even in a somewhat crowded field of Stephen King adaptations released over the past three years or so, The Outsider has managed to stand out. ![]()
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