Outer Range

“Outer Range” emphasized drama over sci-fi in Season 1, but Season 2, all of which is available now, cranks up both the time-travel-portal aspect and the outrageous soapiness. The hole is less a profound mystery and more an incredibly handy mechanism for creating bananas telenovela moments. .... But oh, what fun. What menace. What a total bonanza. “Outer Range” has so much to give, even if some of that is time-loop baloney.

The revelations that came after "Outer Range" had made its "Yellowstone"-on-'shrooms debut were outrageously farfetched and fanciful. But one returns to season 2 eager to see where it can all go, which is well beyond what one is likely to expect.

The bigger leaps that Outer Range takes and the more expansive story it tells are only part of what makes this second season even better than the already solid first. Sometimes, the best television is just about a bearded Josh Brolin on horseback looking into a black hole that has upended his character’s life and everyone in his orbit.

Each of the seven episodes speed by, but the final one let me hoping that Prime renews this one pronto to tie up its many threads.

Season 2 takes a few missed steps toward the confounding, but commits deeper to the show's own weirdness, which is appreciated.

The second season of Outer Range certainly isn’t boring, but we just wonder if all the time jumping is going to either get confusing or just make for a bunch of jumbled mysteries without answers.

Outer Range season two is unlikely to thrill all but the most devoted fans of its first outing. And while there’s still a decent framework and a game set of actors, there’s no escaping the reality that things will need to click fast if it has any hope of reaching its planned ending.