coolliegal4 The directing is terrible. Everything is just dull and dark all the time. It's all talk about depressing things and there's no humor in this to take away from the repetitiveness. Horror needs to be fun as well but this second season is such a drag that I'm canceling my Cinemax subscription because I only put it back on for this show but it isn't needed anymore.

kaianmattmckay I found this via the Recommended For You list on my Netflix, possibly because I watched The Walking Dead, and Outcast comes from the same writer. It had me hooked from the start, and in a better way than TWD.Outcast features one of the creepiest soundtracks I've heard in some time, and is situated (in cinematographic terms) firmly in the realm of the southern Gothic. The cast features no "big names", which makes for a welcome change and adds some realism to proceedings. "Gritty" is one word that could describe it. "Chilling" and "riveting" ate others. The only actor I recognised was the Reverend, and nearly didn't recognise him, as he is English but putting on an impressive southern US accent. Also worth mentioning are some star performances from the junior cast members, which serve to make viewing pretty harrowing too.In response to some comments here claiming Outcast is "pro-Satanic propaganda", I would say see for yourself, and you'll realise how idiotic that statement is. In Outcast, the concept of demonic possession is simply a metaphor for domestic abuse, whether within the spousal unit, or from parent to child. In that sense, I think it's quite a clever portrayal of a widespread but rarely discussed social problem.

Dominic Lane Been watching from episode 1 and learning about Carl barns ,his daughter ,rev Anderson and the chief ,well I'm not much for writing reviews but wow season 2 is on episode 3 and my God damn mind is blown seriously I am in so much anticipation as to what ,brilliant just brilliant

shamrock_d the hero in the story weren't so dumb saying and doing inexplicable things. Once in a blue moon he gets smart and then the very next moment we find him doing something or going somewhere that any viewer can see from the way the script is written he's going to fall into a trap or something bad.Along with this, there are the inexplicably long walks through darkness where any normal person would turn on the lights and the extended lingering on certain objects, scenes or eyeballs that contribute little or nothing to the plot and story line except perhaps to add lots of padding to what little happens in that one episode. I saw and felt no horror with all this lingering on particular scenes --- just boredom and frustration.It makes one think that the scriptwriters are deliberately adding all these unnecessary --- not even bits and pieces --- but huge unrelated chunks to milk as much as they can out of the script. Season one could have have been half a season but it's been stretched like adding sugar and water to orange juice. The same goes for the pacing and content of the show --- just too many unnecessary parts that could have been dispensed with.It took patience for me to reach around episode 6 before I started getting some sense of who's who or what's what and where the story might be going. By that time, I thought my patience had finally paid off and when things started getting interesting, the stretching started again.By the end of the season, we don't even know if it's something demonic, alien or maybe even a mix of both.It seems this is a trend among quite a number of TV series where we have people doing and saying things that have little or nothing to do with the story line nor giving relevant insight into the personalities of the characters other than to waste time. Outcast looks to have outdone the other series in this aspect.My thought at the close of the season finale was I didn't want to come back for season 2 for more of the same. If the show continues with these over-stretched tendencies without substance, I doubt very much it will last long.The show still shows promise if it can become tighter and more to the point. They can keep the mystery but the pacing needs improvement.One more thing: the finale of season one ends with another inexplicably badly thought out act especially since it was explained earlier that wherever the hero may go he will be attracted to like a point of light in the dark. I saw right away what was going to happen the very moment the last scene started.