March 12, 2024
Here’s something I’ve gotten curious about:
I spent the whole first season of Outer Range desperately trying to get other people who had a sci-fi fandom background to talk to me about the show, because there are just so many familiar tropes and layers and references being played with in it, and…I couldn’t find very many, and I think that has a lot to do with how Amazon marketed the show.
Which was not as a cosmic horror/sci-fi. So I think it may be that not very many people who were fans of other more similar shows like Fringe or Dark started watching it.
And while that was frustrating to me personally, I actually think it’s kind of beautiful what they did accomplish, which was apparently to bring in a lot of viewership who didn’t seem to have almost any familiarity with other television sci-fi.
If that’s you–if you watched Outer Range and loved it, not knowing going in what it was, or not having watched or read much or any other sci-fi, I would actually love to hear about your experience of the show.
What did you think it was? What surprised you? What kept you watching? What do you think is going on?
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