5/21/2023 0 Comments Amazon music reviewAnd Outer Range offers the most - or at least most gaping - on-screen holes in a piece of mainstream entertainment since the Shia LaBeouf movie in which he spent the entire moving digging holes, whatever that was called. But when it comes to gaping natural orifices that may be trans-dimensional or trans-temporal, the head-scratching events transpiring here are far closer to Dark For Dummies than anything Lost-related. If you like grunting expressions of tormented masculinity, complaints about missing heads of cattle and evocative imagery of the wide-open prairie, Outer Range should at least generally satisfy. The Yellowstone part is clearly on-point. Hilarious hole-jinks - hole-arious hijinks? - ensue.Ĭreator Brian Watkins begins Outer Range with Royal opining about Cronus, the titan who the ancient Greeks believed was responsible for agriculture and who used his trademark sickle to cut a hole in the cosmos, “to separate the known from the unknown.” As Watkins - hardly the first writer to be torn, as if with a sickle, between keeping things enigmatic and aggressively over-tipping his hand - reminds us on several occasions, Cronus had dominion over time, hence the word “chronology.” That’s also why the myriad people who will inevitably call Outer Range “ Yellowstone meets Lost” are just exposing that they haven’t watched Netflix’s Dark. Then he finds a vast, perfectly symmetrical, apparently bottomless hole on his property. Oh, and then there’s the arrival of peculiar backpacking hippie Autumn (Imogen Poots), who asks to camp out for a few days on Royal’s property and then starts posing intrusive questions. To make matters worse, Wayne Tillerson (Will Patton), owner of the neighboring ranch, sends his surly, ATV-riding sons (Matt Lauria’s Trever, Noah Reid’s Billy and Shaun Sipos’ Luke) over to let Royal know that he’s made a legal claim on 600 acres of Abbott land. Other son Rhett (Lewis Pullman) is a hard-drinking, hard-living rodeo cowboy whose professional bull-riding dreams may be nearing an end. Son Perry (Tom Pelphrey) is struggling to raise precocious daughter Amy (Olive Abercrombie) after the unexplained disappearance of his wife nine months earlier. Royal is spiritually skeptical, but his wife Cecilia (Lili Taylor) is a true believer, dragging the family to church every week, which may help them handle wave after wave of adversity. Josh Brolin plays Royal Abbott, an ornery, monosyllabic cattleman prone to long, monosyllabic dinners with his limitedly functional family. 'Bosch: Legacy' Nabs Third Season at Amazon Freevee
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