By JASON MARTIN (@JMartZone – March 9, 2020) EPISODE 10: MUST/CAN’T What a fun, incredibly well executed limited series this turned out to be. I enjoyed The Outsider more than I did Price’s The Night Of, which was also strong, and it joins Watchmen as two exceptional one and done (well, we assume so, but…… more
By JASON MARTIN (@JMartZone – February 24, 2020) I know you were probably wondering where last week’s piece was, and with good reason, as it’s certainly a fair question. Here’s the answer. HBO stopped giving out episodes early following the first six, which then meant critics couldn’t see the installments in advance and had to…… more
By JASON MARTIN (@JMartZone – February 9, 2020) EPISODE 6: THE ONE WITH THE YIDDISH VAMPIRE The very end of the episode was predictable and was set-up throughout, but outside of that particular sequence, which was full-on tension and one heck of a cliffhanger, it was an episode that actually felt like a bit of…… more
By JASON MARTIN (@JMartZone – January 27, 2020) EPISODE 4: QUE VIERE EL COCO The Outsider is compelling. It’s a very good show. Usually when you read a sentence like that, there’s a “but” in the vicinity. Nope. I’m enjoying it. I thought it fitting to write bluntly and in quick strike fashion, matching Holly…… more
By JASON MARTIN (@JMartZone – January 19, 2020) So… Terry Maitland didn’t do it after all, I guess. I got that part right, but went a little too far with reading into things, which can happen in a series opener. The end of the first episode turned out to mean basically nothing at all, which…… more
