Hell yeah, brother! It took eleven episodes to get here, but Outer Range has finally, truly, knocked it out of the park. Set entirely in 1886 until its final moments, the cheekily titled “Ode to Joy” is exactly that — a showcase for the time-displaced Sheriff Joy Hawk, and for actor Tamara Podemski. Both the character and the performer take that spotlight and make it a star turn, transforming Joy into one of the show’s best characters and cementing Podemski as, perhaps, the equal and opposite reaction to Josh Brolin’s Royal Abbott.
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But more than that, this episode demonstrates that the action in the season premiere, in which Joy found herself in the middle of a breathless battle between warriors on horseback, was no fluke. Working off a fantastic script by Aïda Mashaka Croal and Randy Redroad, director Blackhorse Lowe puts on an action/thriller clinic. Joy and her young friend Flowers’s (Lily Joy Winder) quest to defeat and escape their white captors and pursuers treats the real-world sociopolitical horrors with sensitivity without being afraid to use them as fuel for powerful genre storytelling.
The plot of the episode is simple. In the late 19th century, Joy has been living among her Shoshone ancestors for four years now, with her Led Zeppelin–loving friend Falling Star by her side. But Falling Star, a trained nurse, knows she’s dying of cancer, and wants Joy to take over as liaison with the “homesteaders,” whose government-appointed representative Carson Krum (Mark Sivertsen) seems like a decent enough guy.
As is so often the case on this shoe, though, bison are the harbinger of doom. When young hunters Flowers and Mountain Lion (River Novin) shoot a bison — it’s the same bison with two arrows jutting out of it that trotted around mysteriously all throughout Season One, of course — they pursue it into the settlers’ territory. There, they are accosted by Shelton Cape (John Ales), a grey-bearded sh*tkicker, and his men. Mountain Lion escapes, but Flowers is captured, and with all of their warriors out on a hunt, it falls to former LEO Joy to come to the rescue.
And now, a personal aside. I quite literally can’t conceive of myself as a person without Led Zeppelin. Their ten-disc complete studio recordings box set was the soundtrack of my entire adolescence. So I’m right there with Falling Star and Joy when they quote “Stairway to Heaven” at each other at the start of Joy’s perilous journey. That song is absolutely commensurate with such a moment; quoting it is a way of showing Falling Star, Joy, and Led Zeppelin their due respect. I got choked up, but can you blame me? “Stairway to Heaven” was the first song I ever sang to my child, when they were in a tiny little plastic box in a neonatal intensive care unit. That song means as much to me as it does to them.
Anyway, Joy heads off to the rescue armed with the power of an automatic pistol (or whatever, I’m not a gun expert, go home and play with your kids), a gun that has a level of accuracy and stopping power for which the white men of 1886 are quite unprepared. But Gage wounds her in the leg and escapes, all but ensuring a racial bloodbath once the news gets out. Joy convinces Flowers to leave her behind in order to make better time back to the village, giving them ample warning. This pretty much means Joy has left herself behind to die.
But she didn’t count on her nearest pursuer being young Royal Sumner (Teauguen Arbogast), and his abusive father Levi (Brandon Stacy). Astonishingly, Joy — who comes from a “place” where men like Levi are considered the scum of the earth and imprisoned for such behavior — convinces Royal to kill his father rather than her.
This is the “hunt” that Royal was on when he “accidentally” shot his dad. This is what caused him to flee his family and leap into a hole in the world. This is what also caused Joy to do the same, pursuing young Royal headlong despite her wounded leg and falling through the bottomless void just shy of Royal’s own descent. You’ve now seen where both of them end up. Meanwhile, the white men find themselves outfoxed and surrounded by the returning Shoshone warriors. All’s well that ends well, for now at least.
The great thing about heavily serialized New Golden Age/Prestige TV/Peak TV storytelling is that when a standalone episode like this one does come along, it really pops. (That’s why the critical vogue for such episodes is nonsensical: If they were common, they wouldn’t hit half as hard.) Outer Range used this one to, in wrestling parlance, get Joy over — make her someone the audience will cheer for, loudly at that. I’m hugely impressed by this effort. I’m excited to see where things go from here.
Sean T. Collins (@theseantcollins) writes about TV forRolling Stone,Vulture,The New York Times, andanyplace that will have him, really. He and his family live on Long Island.
Although she was only gone for a few days in the present, Joy lived among the 1880s Shoshone people for four years. While in Wyoming 140 years ago, she changed the past only in small ways, but they ended up contributing to an even bigger idea.
However, the change made to Royal's origins most likely has an in-universe explanation – the fact that Joy went back in time and changed the past. Either Joy created a new universe where Royal killed his dad to save her, or history has been rewritten to accommodate the butterfly effect she caused.
Likewise, in Season 2, when Joy jumps in the hole in 1886, she finds herself back in the 21st century, only days after she initially disappeared. It's possible that the void itself sends people where they want to go, and since Royal didn't intend to fall into the hole, it sent him somewhere randomly.
As revealed in Season 1, Royal traveled through the hole from 1886 as a kid after he had accidentally killed his father, and ended up being raised by the Abbott family in the 1960s. It's a secret he kept until Season 1, when the hole reappears and his life spirals out of control.
Autumn only realized she was Amy in Outer Range season 2, episode 5, after seeing her reflection in the mirror turn into Amy. Although Outer Range teased that Autumn's cult could have something to do with Rebecca's disappearance, it was all just a red herring.
He's soul-searching on this trip! Even if Perry won't say it outright, accidentally murdering Trevor Tillerson (Matt Lauria) in season 1 is one of the reasons he jumped into the hole. His wife left him. His father lied to him his entire life.
The names of dynasties tended to change when the line of succession was taken by a rival faction within the family (for example, Henry IV and the Lancastrians, Edward IV and the Yorkists, Henry VII and the Tudors), or when succession passed to a different family branch through females (for example, Henry II and the ...
"Princess Anne had to wait until 1987 before her mother the Queen bestowed the title of Princess Royal on her, even though the title had been vacant since 1965," Larcombe says. It previously belonged to Princess Mary, eldest and only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary, who was Princess Royal from 1932 to 1965.
The original actress Hatty Preston announced that she left the show five months ago, so Princess Maribel had to change on The Royals. And to say that change was significant would be an understatement since the role of Princess Maribel was recast with model Jerry-Jane Pears.
In the end, the Abbotts didn't get Amy back as she was pushed into the void at the last minute. But several occasions in the finale lead to questions on her identity as well as the fate of others who went into the hole, including Perry. Disclaimer: This article contains major spoilers for Outer Ranger season 2.
Outer Range season 2, episode 7 ends with Perry presumably going back to his original time, only to realize he arrived a few days earlier and had the chance to stop himself from killing Trevor. By doing so, he may have created a new timeline entirely.
The series centers on a massive hole that appears on Royal Abbott's (Josh Brolin) family ranch in Wyoming. The hole is a portal through time—and the show never really tells us how it works. Several of the characters' journeys through time only complicate the plot, opening up a new can of worms every episode.
Outer Range centers on Royal Abbott (Josh Brolin), a rancher fighting for his land and family, who discovers an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming's wilderness. A thrilling Western family saga with hints of wry humor and supernatural mystery, Outer Range examines how we grapple with the unknown.
Thanks to the time-warping, mind-altering properties of a mysterious mineral found beneath the ground on Royal's land, a big black round hole in spacetime occasionally appears in his west pasture. Both bison and people, alive or dead, can pass through, emerging in a completely different place or time on the other side.
Autumn's plans were not entirely revealed in the Outer Range season finale, but it was clear that she deemed Royal a threat to the Void's use of time travel.
Rebecca Abbott is a recurring character on the Prime Video neo-western mystery thriller, Outer Range. She is portrayed by Kristen Connolly. Rebecca is Perry's missing wife.
Outer Range was primarily filmed in New Mexico, taking advantage of the state's diverse landscapes to depict the fictional Amelia County in Wyoming. The New Mexico Film Office reported that many local workers were employed for this major production over several months.
Perry's wife was having an affair with Lewis, which Cecilia found out about. Cecilia told Rebecca to leave and warned her not to ever hurt her son, which is why Perry's wife disappeared and never came back.
After eating the mineral that came out of the Hole, Autumn saw her reflection in the mirror turn into Amy, which confirmed that they were indeed the same person. Additionally, at the end of Outer Range season 2, Amy wakes up in the future with her memories scrambled and wrongfully assumes that her name is Autumn.
She confronts owner Derek Markham, forcing him to refund the overcharges, pay damages, and relinquish any claim to her patent or else face criminal charges. Joy becomes a successful independent businesswoman who sponsors other inventors.
As the show is dealing with time travel, the most likely cause of Outer Range's disappearing mountain is that Autumn comes from another time period, whether in the past or future, and her interaction with Royal created a temporal anomaly that resulted in the mountain seeming to disappear in a representation of Autumn's ...
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