THE OUTSIDER Season 2 Could Move to Netflix
Mike Sprague
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Earlier, we heard HBO decided to pass on the planned second season of their hit adaptation of Stephen King’s The Outsider with Ben Mendelsohn and Cynthia Erivo.
But now we hear Season 2 is being shopped to premium networks and streamers, with Netflix – where MRC produced House of Cards and Ozark – a front-runner.
MRC President Elise Henderson said: “We thank HBO for a great partnership in the first season and for helping to bring in a massive audience who fell in love with The Outsider. We are looking forward to finding a new home for this remarkable series.”
HBO said in a statement: “We enjoyed our collaboration with Richard, Jason [Bateman], Andrew [Bernstein] and the MRC team, and we wish them well in continuing the world created by the brilliant Stephen King.”
The first season stars Ben Mendelsohn and Cynthia Erivo with Bill Camp, Mare Winningham, Paddy Considine, Julianne Nicholson, and Jason Bateman.
The ten-episode season is written by Richard Price, Jessie Nickson-Lopez, and Dennis Lehane. Mendelsohn produced while Bateman was an executive producer alongside Richard Price, Michael Costigan, Marty Bowen, and Jack Bender.
The Outsider begins when an eleven-year-old boy’s corpse is found in a park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. But as the investigation expands and answers begin to emerge we’re left to wonder, while he seems like a nice guy, is he wearing another face? The answer will shock you.
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