The colour palette was all shades of slate grey and midnight blue. The story appeared to veer from police procedural to something more supernatural, as you might expect from a King novel. A sinister hooded figure lurked at the edge of the action. Eerie night terrors began to affect Maitland’s daughter and others connected to the case. Was it possible he could be in two places at once?Ī well-played, rug-pulling twist at the start of episode two flipped our assumptions upside down and took the narrative in new directions.
At the exact time the murder was committed, he was at an educational conference 60 miles away, with multiple eyewitnesses and CCTV footage confirming his alibi. Maitland looked banged to rights – except for one slight snag. Outraged by the crime, Anderson deliberately had him arrested in front of a crowd of spectators. Overwhelming evidence pointed to the culprit being popular local high school teacher and baseball coach Terry Maitland (Ozark’s Jason Bateman, who also directed this opening double bill). “Animal?” Anderson asked his colleague from forensics. Smalltown Georgia detective Ralph Anderson (Bloodline’s Ben Mendelsohn, all hangdog looks and growled drawl) investigated when the body of an 11-year-old boy was discovered in the woods, brutally raped and horribly mutilated – from being bitten, it turned out. Luckily, it largely delivered on these compelling credentials. It hailed from the illustrious HBO stable, was adapted from Stephen King’s 2018 bestseller by crime writer Richard Price and starred a heavyweight cast. The 10-parter came with head-turning pedigree. Was this a case of mistaken identity, secret doppelgängers, or something more spooky? TV dramatists can’t seem to resist a murdered child mystery but The Outsider (Sky Atlantic) promised something more than the usual ghoulish schlock.
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