What's the deal with all of the animal life?
No conversation about Outer Range would be complete without a deep-dive into the mysterious buffalo, especially the one with two arrows in its side. Who shot it with the arrows, and why does it always show up at very particular moments (like when Royal returns from the future at the beginning of Episode 2)? What’s the significance of Royal and Autumn each removing one of the arrows at different points in time? And how did Luke Tillerson get an entire herd of buffalo to explode out of the new hole he dug up?
Lastly, are the bears connected to the buffalo, and is there any sort of connection between the cub and young Amy? If we were jaunting about on the Abbott range, we’ll tell you one thing: We’d stay far, far away from the wildlife.
There’s a lot of mysteries in this show, but the crockpot fixation baffles me. It’s a stale trope used to parallel tension in the story. There aren’t ghosts, goblins or even time traveling buffalos in the crockpot. Obviously, she’s cooking up the dead bear, right???
I just figured the crock pot was rattling because of the buffalo stampeding thru the area
Ya…..people are reading too much into the crockpot. 1000s if Buffalo running makes shit shake.
It was an interesting show to say the least. Honestly at the end of it i didn’t know if it was too strange to enjoy or good enough to make me want to learn more. I wondered if a second season would be worth it or not. But like anything if it gets one I’ll be watching cause i have so many questions. Gonna miss the singing though. That strangely was good as weird as it was in the mix of the story it kept me grounded i guess into what was happening.
I’m with Jon. The singing, while odd, seemed to fit the mood and filled a necessary spot. I’ll miss Billy and his singing. I was hoping Autumn would get killed off, because she is annoyed the heck out of me from the very beginning. If someone pushed me into an unknown hole/void, there is no way I’d allow them to keep staying on my property. I’ll have to give Season 2 a loosie, if it gets renewed. I have too many questions now.
Very unsatisfying ending. I kept thinking every episode I watched something will be revealed now for sure, not then, and not ever. Big waste of time.
Where did the “Circle A” disappear to from over the ranch gate? It’s there when Autumn calls our attention to it in the early episodes and gone in the last two.
It is on the main gate that stands opposite the Tillerson’s, but not on the gate in front of the Abbott home.
Cool when is session 2 start can’t wait A lot of questions?
One of the most confusing and poorly written shows ever conceived. And to think I gave it five episodes.
Really, really terrible.
Only part I liked was when the old man was singing “It Must Be Him” along with Vicki Carr and holding on to that rock.
So exciting and kinda Steven King like…I’m so excited fir season 2 and love futures and past
Got to be one of the WORST season finales ever. The only ??s answered were ones I and propably most viewers figured out long before the end. I hope Amazon says a big NO to season 2. I could care less.
Royal doesn’t tell Cecilia about the hole – why not? Perry always looks like he’s in pain – why did Rebecca run away?? Autumn’s full of cryptic foreshadowing – when are the viewers going to be given a hint??? If they don’t film a second season I’m gonna have to find a big-o hole to jump into it myself ~ argh!!!
One thing that stuck out to me is how Royal often referred to “MY ranch” or “MY land” and how his wife’s family had owned it for generations, over 100 years. Assuming the hole doesn’t transport one too far geographically, would that make Cecelia a descendant of Royal’s own parents? That could be a reason for Autumn to be completely psycho… ?
Is Autumn psycho? Or just operating from a different perspective? Knowing things that have happened and will happen may be the reason for her choices or possibly time travel makes you a bit erratic. My sense was that she had an agenda and was willing to do whatever she needed to do to accomplish it. She’s volatile but that doesn’t necessarily equate to crazy.
I see your point, but her switch really got flipped when she couldn’t get her meds, which suggests mental illness to me. I hope we find out. :)
She also lost the necklace right before she started acting crazy.
I thought Autumn was going off the deep end because she wasn’t taking her meds.
I don’t think Royal is Chronos…I think he’s Thanos.
I admit I liked the show. I waited till the whole season was available to start watching. At first I watched one episode a day but eventually I felt compelled to binge watch the last four. My problem is with showrunners too in love with their work at the expense of their audience. I loved the first season of Lost as well. I got annoyed when instead of answering mysteries they kept throwing more at the audience. I never watched the last season of that show. I will dump Outer Range if this show does the same and I suspect Amazon will be quick to pull the plug if it looks like they are losing audience.
I had the same thought about its similarity to Lost, both good and bad, and I think that has coloured my view of Outer Range. I’m much less likely to just go along and assume that things will be explained than if I’d never seen Lost.
I’m not sure that Royal can control his time travel. I think it happens when he’s trying to escape something, but I don’t think he can control whether he goes forward or back or by how much. Also it seems if you go into the hole/void alive, you come out alive; if you go in dead, you come out that way (Trevor). The two issues I had with it were Perry diving into the hole; he knew if he didn’t show up for trial his family would lose the ranch (which is how Autumn got it: she used her trust fund to buy it when it went up for auction after Perry “skipped bail” since the ranch was collateral for the bail), and he’s too loyal to family to let that happen. The second is the numerous legal problems (the Abbots would win the land dispute on adverse possession grounds, if nothing else, but it’s never brought up; the county assessor has no decision making authority in this kind of dispute, and Wayne’s attorney’s breach of confidentiality when he disclosed the contents of the draft will). Another question I have is whether eating the crushed rock gave Billy any power/ability to survive/return from the dead?
I’m wondering about Billy as well. Hope they find a way to bring him back. He was the most interesting character in the show.
I’ve been wondering why Royal was never dumped back into his time when it seems like everyone else that’s gone thru it has returned.
I don’t think he can control it either. He’s only traveled 3 times, and I doubt he wanted to go 100 years (or whatever it was) ahead the first time, or 2 years the second time. I suppose he would have wanted to go back to his own time the third time, but the fact he did could just be how time travel through the hole works (aka hand waving :-) ). Also, when he threw Trevor in, I doubt he was thinking Trevor would be back 8 days later. Maybe 2 years, maybe 100 years, hopefully never. I agree on Perry, it seems out of character to do something he knows will completely screw the family. I also agree on the legal stuff, I noted both at the time, and was annoyed with them, because they were both solely to push the plot in a specific direction, and both could have been done a different way with the same outcome.
Question: when did Royal go into the past? Seems he went to the future both times he fell into the void 1. As a child, he went from 1886 to 1968. 2. When Autumn pushed him in, he went at least two years into the future.
When her went BACK after seeing the future after being pushed by Autumn
Cronos also ate his children.
Why did the mountain disappear?
Did they mine it in the future? Was the disappearance in the past… before a meteor strike that created the mountain of ore? Did Royal blow it up to seal the void?
You didn’t ask, Why is Autumn/Amy trying to kill Royal?
The buffalo with 2 arrows somehow is the struggle between Royal and Amy. Autumn changes after she pulls one arrow. And Royal also changes. I think pulling the arrow is an acceptance of the challenge.
There has to be a season 2.
Interesting how the arrows pulled right out!!
If Autumn had come clean about being Amy from the word go, yes they wouldn’t have believed her initially but over time… then she would have inherited it all eventually….
Billy is also singing “Private Eyes” in Ep. 1. I am sure that song is as significant as the others. The other songs are integral to the story, too. The one about loneliness as Royal imagines himself in the hole. And “High on a Rocky Ledge” after the big family fight where Amy is hurt. The song “Matilde” as Wayne re-discovered the hole. These lyrics are all hints and clues, I believe.
I find the show fascinating. it falters at times but then picks up steam with yet another revelation or mystery.
Am I the only one that found Billy’s singing and accompanying antics annoying? After the third or fourth song I took my earphones off and replaced them only when I was sure he had finished.
At first I really liked the show, but as it got weirder and weirder, I found myself frustrated more than not. And if I wasn’t frustrated, I was annoyed with how dark the screen was. I watched this on two different TVs, so I know it wasn’t that.
I have to say, anyone who doesn’t like this series thus far, doesn’t understand what they are talking about. It’s a brilliant show, with a brilliant plot. I just hope we get further installments, to help resolve all these mysteries introduced in the first season.
I always love that argument: If you don’t agree with me, you are stupid.
The show never depicts Royal as consciously altering time, or envisioning himself going somewhere time specific. One question I’d like to know is (during one episode, I can’t remember which) why does Cecilia hide in the shed with a cub from Royal? It seems as if she imagines Royal to be the bear? I couldn’t make sense of this. Also, why does Cecilia keep from burying the cub and leaves it in the shed?
Additionally, I forgot to add that I am very happy to have discovered this show and gave it a try. Many of these type of shows have tried network TV or primetime TV, such as “Under the Dome”. They haven’t done well, and it may be because of the limits they can do on those networks, cable or stream is the best option for these types of shows. I never cared for shows like “Under the Dome,” maybe because it was a Steven King creation, but others just seemed to embrace too much PG to develop anywhere. If I want something different I typically find these worthy shows on Netflix (and now Amazon). The Outer Range reminds me a bit of another time travel show from Germany that I have really enjoyed, and it’s on Netflix called “The Dark”. I had hoped something original like it would come to the U.S. and it seems that so far it has.
Fantastic,intriguing and brilliantly acted. I binge watched the series over two days with Covid. I, for one cannot wait for the next season.