![]() ![]() Instead of pulling a True Detective and downplaying it at the end, The Outsider went all-in on the supernatural, playing up its Mexican boogeyman, El Cuco, in a progressive manner as the season wore on. Chambers, its Yellow King/Carcosa signposts ultimately landed more as gothic window-dressing, part of an ambiguous tale where - if you took it at face value - it could have all been happening in the natural world with no cosmic interference or supernatural goings-on whatsoever. ![]() Yet while the first season of True Detective teased connections to the weird fiction of Robert W. ![]() Sober yet scary in its treatment of a shocking crime, The Outsider initially struck something of a True Detective tone, with its supernatural elements lurking on the fringe in the form of the titular outsider: a mysterious hooded man with a burned, Play-Doh-like face. ![]()
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