What is The Outsider? It's a lot scarier than you probably thought.
, is based on King’s 2018 novel of the same title, and follows a beloved teacher and Little League coach, Terry Maitland who is accused of brutalizing and murdering a little boy named Frankie Peterson .Maitland is arrested by police detective Ralph Anderson at a baseball game in front of everyone as to publicly shame him for his heinous crimes the police department is certain he committed. Anderson is convinced he has the murderer, and tries to turn the small Georgia town against him.
Maitland, who immediately gets a lawyer, claims he is innocent. Although the cops are hell-bent on prosecuting Maitland, they find strange, conflicting evidence: WitnessesMaitland with the boy right before the murder, and the teacher drives a van that’s discovered to be covered in the victim’s blood. But! Maitlandhave done it, because he has an alibi — he was a conference when the murder happened, and there’s physical proof of that.
Gibney starts doing research on The Outsider in her efforts to stop it. Why does it only kill children? What’s its motive? How is it able to shapeshift? Clearly, this thing isn’t human. So what is it? Gibney learns about, a scary monster who attacks children who are up to no good. Parents sing lullabies about El Cuco, warning their kids about what can happen if they misbehave.
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