When a young boy is murdered, the police know who committed the crime…or do they?
Like so many King stories,The Outsiderbegins with something grisly happening in an otherwise idyllic small town.
A man is out walking his dog.
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He passes a van and doesn’t notice the bit of blood on the side.
His dog senses something though.
As they wander into the woods, the dog takes off.
The man follows him, and finds him staring at something.
The body, or what’s left of it, belongs to the young Frankie Peterson.
He’s barely a toddler, andThe Outsiderdoes not hesitate to show his decapitated head and shredded torso.
A child also remembers seeing Terry coming out of the woods, covered in blood.
Terry is in complete disbelief, as is his wife Marcy (Julianne Nicholson).
He calmly goes with the officers, and tells them that they’ve made a huge mistake.
Soon enough though, their case doesn’t seem so simple.
The DA isn’t convinced, but Anderson is starting to worry.
As he tells his partner, everything Terry supposedly did after murdering the kid is “idiotic.”
While Terry is held in prison, Howie goes digging.
But then how is there also clear footage of him at the Peachy Crease and the train station?
It’s a good series premiere.
The pace is engaging, and the tone is wonderfully eerie.
We’ll see how the season unfolds, but for now this is a solid if slightly worrisome start.
