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** Sablo tells Andy that Holly's abilities include forecasting a person's death, implying that her behavior around Andy means that she thinks he's going to die... but then Sablo admits that he was just joking.
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** Sablo tells Andy that Holly's abilities include forecasting a person's death, implying that her behavior around Andy means that she thinks he's going to die... but then Sablo admits that he was just joking.joking. [[spoiler:Though it's ultimately subverted when Andy ends up getting killed by Jack at El Cuco's manipulations.]]
* HonorBeforeReason: A negative example. [[spoiler:Despite knowing what El Cuco is and how it operates, Seale goes out of his way to tell his brother what's going on and what the plan against it is, immediately allowing El Cuco to figure out what's going on and plan a counterattack.]]
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** Seale seems to completely understand the stakes and the rules for the fight against El Cuco, yet he still decides to [[spoiler:tell his brother Claude about the team's planned ambush, giving El Cuco warning. Claude immediately starts calling him an idiot for doing so]].
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** Seale seems to completely understand the stakes and the rules for the fight against El Cuco, yet he still decides to [[spoiler:tell his brother Claude about the team's planned ambush, giving El Cuco warning. Claude himself immediately starts calling calls him an idiot for doing so]].
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The plot concerns the small town of Cherokee City, Georgia when a shocking and brutal murder of a young child shakes the community to the core. When [=DNA=] and eye witness reports points to the local little league coach Terry Maitland, it seems to be an open-and-shut case...until equally compelling evidence places him over 70 miles away at the time of the crime.
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The plot concerns the small town of Cherokee City, Georgia when a shocking and brutal murder of a young child shakes the community to the core. When [=DNA=] and eye witness reports points to the local little league coach Terry Maitland, it seems to be an open-and-shut case...OpenAndShutCase... until equally compelling evidence places him over 70 miles away at the time of the crime.
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* ToThePain: [[spoiler: Ralph delivers a monologue like this to El Cuco in the final episode, after it has been incapacitated. He threatens to first bring tour groups around to leer at it in its helpless state, followed by scientists who will [[TheyWouldCutYouUp vivisect it]]. Ultimately, [[spoiler: he decides it is better if [[Unperson no one else knows the thing even exists]] and [[spoiler: caves in the creature's head with a rock to put it down for good]].
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* ToThePain: [[spoiler: Ralph delivers a monologue like this to El Cuco in the final episode, after it has been incapacitated. He threatens to first bring tour groups around to leer at it in its helpless state, followed by scientists who will [[TheyWouldCutYouUp vivisect it]]. Ultimately, [[spoiler: he decides it is better if [[Unperson no one else knows the thing even exists]] exists and [[spoiler: caves in the creature's head with a rock to put it down for good]].
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* ToThePain: [[spoiler: Ralph delivers a monologue like this to El Cuco in the final episode, after it has been incapacitated. He threatens to first bring tour groups around to leer at it in its helpless state, followed by scientists who will [[TheyWouldCutYouUp vivisect it]]. Ultimately, [[spoiler he decides it is better if [[Unperson no one else knows the thing even exists]] and [[spoiler: caves in the creature's head with a rock to put it down for good]].
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* ToThePain: [[spoiler: Ralph delivers a monologue like this to El Cuco in the final episode, after it has been incapacitated. He threatens to first bring tour groups around to leer at it in its helpless state, followed by scientists who will [[TheyWouldCutYouUp vivisect it]]. Ultimately, [[spoiler [[spoiler: he decides it is better if [[Unperson no one else knows the thing even exists]] and [[spoiler: caves in the creature's head with a rock to put it down for good]].
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* ToThePain: [[spoiler: Ralph delivers a monologue like this to El Cuco in the final episode, after it has been incapacitated. He threatens to first bring tour groups around to leer at it in its helpless state, followed by scientists who will [[TheyWouldCutYouUp vivisect it]]. Ultimately, [[spoiler he decides it is better if [[Unperson no one else knows the thing even exists]] and [[spoiler: caves in the creature's head with a rock to put it down for good]].
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* ToThePain: [[spoiler: Ralph delivers a monologue like this to El Cuco in the final episode, after it has been incapacitated. He threatens to first bring tour groups around to leer at it in its helpless state, followed by scientists who will [[TheyWouldCutYouUp vivisect it]]. Ultimately, he decides it is better if [[Unperson no one else knows the thing even exists]] and caves in the creature's head with a rock to put it down for good]].
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** The last episode features a number of scenes that suggest that [[spoiler: Claude]] is going to make a HeroicSacrifice to [[TakingYouWithMe take out El Cuco]] [[spoiler: now that it has completed its transformation to resemble him and has had Jack kill Seale]]. While [[spoiler: Claude does shoot El Cuco, leading to it being impaled and crushed by rocks in the resulting cave in, he isn't the one to finish it off and he ultimately survives the encounter]].
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* UncannyValley: A given in a series revolving around doppelgangers. While El Cuco can perfectly mimic the appearance and mannerisms of the people it impersonates, everyone who encounters it notes that it has a dead-eyed, unsettling gaze. In addition, its physical appearance can invoke this, particularly when it's almost finished with a transformation; the guy who sees its face when it is almost finished transforming into [[spoiler: Claude]] describes it as looking like someone peering out from under a mask.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Jack Hoskins is a downplayed example. In the novel, he's a straight up psycho with a personal grudge against Ralph Anderson. In the show he's pretty far from a nice guy, but his humanity is evident in the fact that he's friends with Tamika Collins, has the self-awareness and humility to admit that he's to blame for his inability to get along with Ralph, and in another departure from the novel, [[spoiler:he spares Holly's life and turns his gun on himself]].
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** [[spoiler:Jack Hoskins]] commits suicide in the show, whereas his novel counterpart dies [[spoiler:in what was essentially a suicide, but by cop (Ralph) rather than his own hand]].
** [[spoiler:El Cuco]] is [[spoiler:killed by Holly with the Happy Slapper]]. There was no way to set that up in the show, so instead [[spoiler:it's shot by Claude Bolton, stabbed by Holly and then has its head crushed with a rock by Ralph, presumably killing it]].
** [[spoiler:El Cuco]] is [[spoiler:killed by Holly with the Happy Slapper]]. There was no way to set that up in the show, so instead [[spoiler:it's shot by Claude Bolton, stabbed by Holly and then has its head crushed with a rock by Ralph, presumably killing it]].
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** [[spoiler:Jack Hoskins]] commits suicide in the show, whereas his novel counterpart dies [[spoiler:in what was is essentially a suicide, but by cop (Ralph) rather than his own hand]].
** [[spoiler:El Cuco]] is [[spoiler:killed by Holly with the HappySlapper]].Slapper]] in the novel. There was no way to set that up in the show, so instead [[spoiler:it's shot by Claude Bolton, stabbed by Holly and then has its head crushed with a rock by Ralph, presumably killing it]].
** [[spoiler:El Cuco]] is [[spoiler:killed by Holly with the Happy
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* DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation:
** [[spoiler:Jack Hoskins]] commits suicide in the show, whereas his novel counterpart dies [[spoiler:in what was essentially a suicide, but by cop (Ralph) rather than his own hand]].
** [[spoiler:El Cuco]] is [[spoiler:killed by Holly with the Happy Slapper]]. There was no way to set that up in the show, so instead [[spoiler:it's shot by Claude Bolton, stabbed by Holly and then has its head crushed with a rock by Ralph, presumably killing it]].
** [[spoiler:Jack Hoskins]] commits suicide in the show, whereas his novel counterpart dies [[spoiler:in what was essentially a suicide, but by cop (Ralph) rather than his own hand]].
** [[spoiler:El Cuco]] is [[spoiler:killed by Holly with the Happy Slapper]]. There was no way to set that up in the show, so instead [[spoiler:it's shot by Claude Bolton, stabbed by Holly and then has its head crushed with a rock by Ralph, presumably killing it]].
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''The Outsider'' is a 2020 Creator/{{HBO}} miniseries based on the Creator/StephenKing [[Literature/TheOutsider2018 book of the same name]]. It stars Creator/BenMendelsohn, Creator/JasonBateman, Cynthia Erivo and Julianne Nicholson.
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''The Outsider'' is a 2020 Creator/{{HBO}} miniseries based on the Creator/StephenKing [[Literature/TheOutsider2018 book of the same name]]. It stars Creator/BenMendelsohn, Creator/JasonBateman, Cynthia Erivo Creator/CynthiaErivo and Julianne Nicholson.
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* JuxtaposedReflectionPoster: The poster shows a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mv5bnzgxotc4odctndnhzc00m2uzltgyyzgtm2q2otk3nmq5ntljxkeyxkfqcgdeqxvymzq2mdi5nju_v1_1.jpg creepy figure reflected in the surface of a lake]]...except there's nobody standing over it that would cast the reflection. The identity of the killer who caused the PlotTriggeringDeath is the DrivingQuestion, and the symbolism of the poster is eventually explained with [[spoiler:El Cuco, a creature capable of {{Humanshifting}}, who would have no definitive appearance anyway.]]
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It's a miniseries, so if it at some point gets expanded to a series with a second season, we can note that then.
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HBO has opted to pass on doing a second season. But the cast and crew are interested to continue the show for another season.
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* AdultFear:
** The deaths of family members, particularly children, is a strong theme throughout the series. The Andersons and the Maitlands both live under the weight of grief.
** Being accused and sent to prison for a child murder you didn't commit, with ironclad DNA evidence saying you did.
** The deaths of family members, particularly children, is a strong theme throughout the series. The Andersons and the Maitlands both live under the weight of grief.
** Being accused and sent to prison for a child murder you didn't commit, with ironclad DNA evidence saying you did.
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''The Outsider'' is a 2020 Creator/{{HBO}} miniseries based on the Creator/StephenKing [[Literature/TheOutsider2018 book of the same name]]. It stars Creator/BenMendelsohn, Creator/JasonBateman, Cynthia Arivo Erivo and Julianne Nicholson.
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The plot concerns a local little league coach who is accused of the gruesome murder of a child, but incontrovertible evidence puts him both at the scene of the crime as well as 70 miles away when the crime was committed. How could this be possible?
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The plot concerns the small town of Cherokee City, Georgia when a shocking and brutal murder of a young child shakes the community to the core. When [=DNA=] and eye witness reports points to the local little league coach who is accused of the gruesome murder of a child, but incontrovertible Terry Maitland, it seems to be an open-and-shut case...until equally compelling evidence puts places him both at the scene of the crime as well as over 70 miles away when at the time of the crime.
As the families affected by the crimewas committed. How could this be possible?
and the town slowly splinters and disintegrates, the police try to explain the contradictory evidence and figure out the truth behind the gruesome crime. The questions soon become who, or what, is responsible.
As the families affected by the crime
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: See SlashedThroat below.
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: See [[spoiler:Heath Hofstadter]] gives himself a SlashedThroat below.rather than let himself be beaten to death by inmates.
