The Roush Review
The Outsider
Sundays, 9/8c, HBO
I CONFESS, I’M a sucker for a good Stephen King story, and The Outsider is one of his better recent efforts. This is because the 2018 novel, and writer Richard Price’s excellent adaptation for HBO, follow one of the horror master’s cardinal rules: Make you care first, the better to scare you later.
The two-hour opener (which aired January 12), directed by and starring Jason Bateman (), is an instantly riveting exercise in emotional suspense, trapping a nice-guy small-town coach in a Hitchcockian
