While attending an Indigenous celebration, Joy shares an intense stare with one of the elders dancing in the crowd. As Amy leaves the scene, a delirious and charged-up Autumn confronts Perry to talk about Royal. Amy says that Rebecca didn’t want to stay on the ranch, though, and asks if Rebecca comes back, can she leave with her? Perry gives her his blessing to do so. Perry and Amy share a tender moment as Perry talks about the notion of Amy being with Royal and Cecilia to look after them. However, once Martha (Morningstar Angeline) persuades Joy, she says she’ll look into the mastodons. Joy doesn’t look too keen on indulging his request. He congratulates her on catching Perry but also reminds her about the mastodons. Elsewhere, Joy’s family brunch is interrupted by Frank (Barry Del Sherman), the member of commerce who is supposed to help Joy with the Sheriff’s election. She finds Rhett and asks him about Perry and Royal, and she weirdly concludes that Perry is going to be okay. Autumn has an aggravating conversation with her mother, after which she bursts into the bar the Abbotts are usually in. Billy interrupts this conversation so that he can take Luke to see the hole in the ground. Luke thinks the whole Abbott family is involved in Trevor’s killing. Joy fills in Luke (Shaun Sipos) and Billy (Noah Reid) about the revelation in the investigation into Trevor’s death and how Perry is responsible for it. And although Royal says that he doesn’t, Perry says he doesn’t believe him. Perry then asks Royal if he knows anything about Rebecca. Perry gives the same answer that he gave Joy, i.e., he doesn’t know. Amy then asks Perry about Rebecca’s whereabouts, making her the second person to ask that question to Perry. Perry apologizes to Amy for not acting impulsively. Cecilia promptly mortgages the entire ranch to get Perry out, which will be seized by the county if Perry doesn’t show up the following day, thereby sealing the ranch’s fate. While Autumn (Imogen Poots) smokes a joint, Royal and Cecilia learn that the amount they need to pay to bail out Perry is $500,000. The omnipresent shows up in front of the Abbott household, where Royal (Josh Brolin), Cecilia (Lili Taylor), Rhett (Lewis Pullman), and Amy (Olive Abercrombie) are going about their day, not talking to each other to avoid bringing up the conversation of the fight and Perry’s arrest. At that moment, Outer Range shifts gears between Neo-Western and classic Western. The other moment is a proper, Western standoff, complete with whistling sounds, close-ups of the characters’ eyes, rack-focusing, exciting gunplay, and car chasing. And the final focus on the thread of saliva is both gross and impressive, to be honest. But in those two moments, you will go, “wow.” The first one is a kiss between two characters (who shall remain unnamed at this point) where the camera tilts down, dollies in, pans right and left, and it’s all cut together in a way to get your heartbeat pumping. Again, please keep in mind that it’s fantastic throughout. Drew Daniels’s electric cinematography, Connor Davis and Jon Otazua’s crisp editing, and Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans’s pulsating score really get to shine in two specific moments. Outer Range Episodes 7 and 8 are no different. But if you’ve made it this far by accepting a hole through time/reality in the ground, then you can push yourself a little further.įrom a technical point of view, the show has been impeccable. The finale does ask for a little more suspension of disbelief than you’ve already exercised. Anger, guilt, rage, the inability to communicate, and a desperate urge to disassociate from the truth of the reality they’re in drive the characters forward (and maybe backward) in time. And with one last push (there’s a very literal shot of that, too), they go over the edge. Every single plot and subplot have driven these families to the edge of their sanity and cohesion. There’s a very literal shot of a pot boiling, which pretty much encapsulates the theme of these two episodes, directed to perfection by Lawrence Trilling. The best and spoiler-free way to describe episodes 7 and 8 of Outer Range is by saying that it’s about the unraveling of the Abbotts and the Tillersons. Outer Range Episodes 7, 8 Review (Spoiler-Free):
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