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Feb 6, 2020 · While the investigation continues, Tamika (Hettienne Park), a police officer who works at the station with Ralph, has a dream in which the tear-drinker takes her newborn baby. When she wakes up, she discovers the crib is empty, but is relieved to find the baby with dad on the porch.
- Keith Deininger
The tear drinker feeds on tears and grief, and BOB feeds on garmonbozia, which is basically tears and grief manifest as creamed corn lol. Twin Peaks uses light hearted or comically absurd moments to balance out the pain of the characters, but The Outsider is a completely devastating show.
Feb 3, 2020 · Episode 1.05: “Tear-Drinker” After returning from an eye-opening trip to New York, Holly searches for clues at several locations connected to the Dayton case; Jeannie finds herself shaken by an unnerving incident at work and delivers an ominous warning to Ralph.
- Terry Mesnard
HBO’s The Outsider reaches the midpoint of its ten-episode season with a somber, deliberate episode designed to build season-long tension more than push the narrative forward.
- Painful Parallels
- Waiting Game
- Grief Wars
- Strangers in The Night
- Pictures at An Exhibition
- Dream State
- The Verdict
The episode opens with the sounds of a police standoff ending in gunfire. The first we see of this event is its the aftermath. A young man lies dead in the street, blood still leaking from his bullet-ridden body and blisters on the back of his neck…just like the ones currently afflicting Jack Hoskins. We then flash back to three days earlier. Someo...
Ralph Anderson, Howie Salomon, Yunis Sablo, and Alec Pelley meet in Howie’s office to discuss Holly’s findings. They all acknowledge that story given by Maria Caneles (the woman Holly interviewed in Rikers) and what happened to Terry Maitland sound remarkably similar, but aren’t sure at all what that should mean. Howie believes that Holly knows mor...
Back at the Anderson home, Ralph researches the Maria Caneles case while Jeannie succinctly describes her work day as “weird.” She then asks Ralph to order takeout and goes to bed to lay down for a bit. When the food arrives, Ralph walks into the bedroom to find Jeannie asleep. He sits down next to her and flashes back to the days after their son d...
Jeannie wakes up in the middle of the night and goes to the kitchen for a glass of water. As she’s filling her glass, she hears someone in the dining room This time it really is the Green Hoodie Man. The sight of him causes Jeannie to drop her glass, which shatters on the floor. The Green Hoodie Man commands Jeannie to sit, which she does without q...
At Jeannie’s behest, Ralph lets her tell Glory Maitland that he and Yunis will be visiting Terry’s grave site. When they arrive, Glory asks why Ralph needs to take pictures, which he’s unable to answer. As he’s photographing the area, Yunis looks over and sees the barn where Terry Maitland’s goo-covered clothes were found…which seems like the type ...
Tamika has a dream about a hooded man taking her baby from its crib. She wakes up and runs into her child’s room to find that the baby is not there. After a frantic search of the house, she runs outside to find her husband holding their child and sitting outside on the porch. Meanwhile, Jack goes to visit Ralph at his home and apologizes for his be...
Despite this being a very good episode, there were some incredibly frustrating moments that also happened to be beautifully shot and executed. Case in point: Tamica’s dream about her child being abducted. The entire sequence is all types of terrifying (and thrilling) right up to the point it’s revealed to have been a complete red herring. Same with...
Feb 3, 2020 · Yes, Yunis thinks dreams mean something profound. The story overall is also much better with Mare Winningham's Jeannie in it. She was absent last week but returned in "Tear-Drinker" for a...
Feb 3, 2020 · “Tear Drinker” feels like The Outsider is killing time. Every plot thread is unspooling at a brutal crawl, and while that wasn’t necessarily an issue right off the bat, the slow burn is...
