![]() Youngest Tillerson son Billy (Noah Reid), for example, is a singing cowboy. And as the series’ primary antagonists, they contribute a majority of the comic surrealism. Photo: Richard Foreman/Amazon Prime VideoĪlthough they’re both prominent ranching families in the same small town, the eccentric Tillersons couldn’t be more different from the plain-talking, pious Abbots. And in the series opener, Royal receives word that his next-door neighbor, the similarly tight-lipped Wayne Tillerson (Will Patton), is making moves to seize his west pasture by taking advantage of a cartographical error dating all the way back to the 1870s. The Abbotts are the type of family where no one ever says what they really mean, but they’re bound tightly together by blood and intrigue nevertheless. Josh Brolin stars as Royal Abbott, the laconic patriarch of a ranching and rodeo clan. (Although they weren’t involved with the production, there are shades of a Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead concept in the show as well.) Series creator and showrunner Brian Watkins, meanwhile, is a celebrated playwright, whose 2015 Wyoming similarly dealt with unspeakable family secrets on the open range.Īnd before it can dive face-first into the inscrutable, Outer Range has a prestige ranching drama to attend to. The more woo-woo aspects of Outer Range are presumably influenced by consulting producer and EP Amy Seimetz, whose 2020 film She Dies Tomorrow is similarly inscrutable. ![]() Outer Range comes to Amazon with an impeccable pedigree: It’s the second series made under Oscar-winning production company Plan B’s first-look deal with Amazon - the first being Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad. But given that Outer Range is very much of the uncanny school of sci-fi, re-fashioning classic Western tropes - the mysterious drifter, the shootout on main street - to enigmatic ends, perhaps some off-putting qualities are appropriate. Now, the shifting tones implied by such a mixture don’t always connect. But Amazon’s new series Outer Rangemoves the action further north to Wyoming, for a sci-fi Western drama that blends Yellowstone and The Outer Limits with just a dash of Twin Peaks. Roswell and Skinwalker Ranch both occupy the dusty desert Southwest. With its vast, empty spaces under crackling skies big enough to keep a secret, the American West is a natural setting for high strangeness.
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