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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23057187\/outer-range-season-1-review-amazon-prime-video<\/a>
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When characters realize the world they know is in fact \u201csomething else,\u201d they have permanently crossed a threshold. The thin membrane they might otherwise call normality has been punctured, and the air of stability drains out. There is some attempt to clutch their worlds close, to grab something pinned down. But it is, inevitably, too late: there is no putting normal<\/em> back when it never existed in the first place. <\/p>\n

Almost <\/em>all fiction involves characters trying to fix or improve their world. But only one genre targets literally the world, the universe and existence: \u201cweird fiction\u201d or \u201cnew weird fiction.\u201d This genre involves stories about the everyday, the normal, being infused with an otherworldy, abnormal, strange aspect at its core that reverberates to conclude nothing<\/em> is as it seems. The realization unravels everything around the object or space, taking in the world and, therefore, the characters. <\/p>\n

A modern classic is Jeff VanderMeer\u2019s Annihilation<\/em><\/a>, about a bordered off coastal area called \u201cArea X\u201d that threatens the whole world (it moves, see?). Caitl\u00edn R. Kiernan pits bureaucracy against otherworldliness that calls out to Earth in her Agents of Dreamland. <\/em>Mark Z Danielewski\u2019s House of Leaves<\/em> is about what happens when the borders of your home actually expand into parts of the world or universe that shouldn\u2019t exist. H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s characters realized they were insignificant entities in a universe ruled by unfathomable eldritch entities. David Lynch and Mark Frost\u2019s Twin Peaks <\/em>slowly stripped the reality of small-town America into a cosmically nightmarish place. N.K. Jemisin pushes the boundaries of what cities are in The City We Became<\/em>. <\/p>\n

In essence, the (new) weird is about infusing what we take for granted and showing how, at its very essence, that which is normal is, in fact, not. When you can\u2019t trust a house to be a house, how can you trust reality to be true? <\/p>\n

In Amazon\u2019s new series Outer Range<\/em>, the threat to normalcy is much more simple: a gigantic hole. This mysterious, seemingly bottomless hole emits strange noises and vapors. Set in a modern-day Wyoming cattle ranch (led by Josh Brolin\u2019s patriarchal Royal Abbott), Brian Watkin\u2019s neo-Western creep-fiction seems to be what happens when Dallas<\/em> meets David Lynch. <\/p>\n

The season\u2019s penultimate episode and finale drop on May 6th. And a lot has happened to get us there.<\/p>\n

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