OUTER RANGE – created by Brian Watkins – Season One – SPOILERS
Josh Brolin as Royal Abbott
Royal Abbott (Josh Brolin) kicks things off with a dramatic aside: “You know anything about a Greek god called Chronos?” he asks. “He carried a sickle. He used it to cut a hole – a tear in the cosmos between heaven and earth to separate this world from the next. To separate the known from the unknown. The world has been waiting for something like this.” The Abbott Ranch and everything around it is full of zoological anachronisms, and shortly after the series opens Royal finds a hole in his west pasture that behaves like a wormhole. (It looks like it was made by an actual earthworm of considerable size.) Whatever enters the hole re-emerges at a different time and a different place. Continue reading →