Episode two of The Stand begins with Frannie singing “Amazing Grace” as a gentle wind breezes over her father’s green garden and trees. But don’t let the sunshine and chirping birds fool you: most…
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The Stand Miniseries: Part 1: The Plague
The news keeps spilling out like an open wound of dreadful information, people are stuck at home in quarantine, and horror fans are talking about Captain Trips, aka the superflu, aka the…
Dark Deviations: Malcolm Meets Christine
These days you might be spending a lot more time at home. Maybe you’re working or watching pandemic movies or reading books about haunted houses to get into the true self-quarantine spirit. (Maybe you’re…
The Outsider Episode Nine, Tigers and Bears
No lions? This is the second to last episode and we all know that means. Everything is going to go horribly wrong. Ralph, Holly, and co. have succeeded in protecting Claude from…
The Outsider Episode Eight, Foxhead
Stop the presses, I have an announcement. This episode is the second one in the season with a title that makes sense. Remember when that used to be a requirement? Episode eight…
The Outsider Episode Seven, In The Pines, In The Pines
This episode starts with a cockroach unable to get up off its back in the woods, and it just never regains that level of interest. Ralph wakes up to find that Holly…
The Outsider Episode Six, The One About the Yiddish Vampire
And for once, the title actually makes sense! Episode six of HBO’s The Outsider proved once again that if you add extra content to a show with consideration to the source material…
The Outsider Episode Five, Tear Drinker
Episode five of HBO’s The Outsider didn’t start with a bang. Instead, it crept into the mind of viewers and left one with a shaking feeling of uncertainty. We start with Jack,…
The Outsider Episode Four, Que Viene el Coco
Episode four of HBO’s The Outsider focused largely on the adventures of Holly. So it was a great episode in my opinion. Holly’s been contracted to investigate Terry’s family visit to his…
The Outsider, Episode three. Dark Uncle
Episode three of HBO’s The Outsider digs deeper into the mystery of who killed Frank Peterson. And it just gets curiouser and curiouser. This episode introduces us to two new characters. First,…