This is a fairly well made, directed and cast show. Beautiful locations and cinematography add to the pluses of "Outer Range" as well. It has an interesting premise, as well as story, and pretty solid characters. The issue is that while the series starts strong...it just kind of dissipates and falls off along the way as it progresses, to the point that it gets hard to stay interested in it and where it is going and the motivation to keep seeing it
At points in this series, I had to push myself to return and start watching the show again. It starts dragging quite seriously after Episode 2 and it just seemed to meander all over the place, as if the show runners/producers and writers seemed uncertain how and where to proceed to. The bad news is that it doesn't really get going again until (later in) Episode 7 and Episode 8 (Season Finale).
On par per course, this being 2022, there are some smatterings of wokeness, empty virtue signalling and other post-modern garbage of the kind that has penetrated and infested pop culture and entertainment at all levels. The good news is that it all this rubbish is present in small quantities, not enough to derail the series. The weakness of the show lies, as I said previously, in the lack of narrative coherence and a loss of focus.
Yes "Outer Range" deserves a second season (quite a lot of room to improve on the first one...hopefully) but no, honestly, I won't necessarily jump to immediately see it. It is more one of those, "I'll eventually get around to watch it" type of deals, at least for me. ***EDIT***At the time of this review (October 8, 2022) the show was renewed for a second season.
At points in this series, I had to push myself to return and start watching the show again. It starts dragging quite seriously after Episode 2 and it just seemed to meander all over the place, as if the show runners/producers and writers seemed uncertain how and where to proceed to. The bad news is that it doesn't really get going again until (later in) Episode 7 and Episode 8 (Season Finale).
On par per course, this being 2022, there are some smatterings of wokeness, empty virtue signalling and other post-modern garbage of the kind that has penetrated and infested pop culture and entertainment at all levels. The good news is that it all this rubbish is present in small quantities, not enough to derail the series. The weakness of the show lies, as I said previously, in the lack of narrative coherence and a loss of focus.
Yes "Outer Range" deserves a second season (quite a lot of room to improve on the first one...hopefully) but no, honestly, I won't necessarily jump to immediately see it. It is more one of those, "I'll eventually get around to watch it" type of deals, at least for me. ***EDIT***At the time of this review (October 8, 2022) the show was renewed for a second season.