HBO has been tight-lipped about whether their recent adaptation of Stephen King’s The Outsider would be coming back for a Season 2. Well, the loquacious King shares no such compunctions, and in a recent interview with EW he confirmed that “there’s going to be a second season of The Outsider as soon as they can get the production going.” The news came in a conversation about King’s beloved character Holly Gibney. She leads one of the novellas that make up the new collection If It Bleeds, and plays a big part in both The Outsider as well as the TV adaptation of Mr. Mercedes, which just migrated from the defunct Audience Network to Peacock. King was excited about Holly’s arc on The Outsider, though he didn’t think it would lead into the e...
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Radio Public | Stitcher | RSS “If it bleeds, it leads.” The Losers head to Finders Keepers to meet Holly Gibney. There’s a problem with the elevator, though, and the stairwell is blocked. Locked inside, the four discuss Stephen King’s trusty private investigator and her first solo mystery, If It Bleeds. Join Randall Colburn, Michael Roffman, Dan Caffrey, and Jenn Adams as they parse through King’s true crime era and what the future of Holly Gibney might bring, be it on the page or in another season of HBO’s The Outsider. This episode is sponsored by — you guessed it — If It Bleeds, which is currently on sale. As you’ll learn from the Losers, King’s latest collects four separate...