I don't know what went wrong with the HBO TV Drama makers. This one is exactly like their "The True Detective". In order to build up some atmosphere of this kind murder genre mysteries, guys who shot the "Outsider" did the same thing like "The True Detective", overly cooked up the cinematography with dark filters to emphasize the dreary, mysterious on-going of the storyline, everything looked just so dark, so dim, so pretentiously and purposefully to give the audiences a very unnatural and absolutely unnecessary scene after scene in dark, shadowy, suffocating, dimmed light, even they were outside scenes. It seems that nobody in this drama series could afford the electricity bills, so everybody's home was so dark, almost no light, about 2/3 of the whole screen of every scene was so dark, in deep shadow. I sometimes even thought that I should turn on a flashlight to see the scenes on the screen.

In order to hang on to the "mystery" genre, a rigid background rendered by Steven King, the hooded figure with dark face just so unnaturally showed up in every killing scene, even outside of the house when the father hanged himself, that hooded figure always hanging around. To me, it's just so over-the-top pretentious and unnatural; although to Steven King, it's "Super Natural", the core of his every novel and story. And, sorry, I'm not a fan of this mold of crap.