The Outsider 1.8: Two Monsters

So, if I'm understanding The Outsider correctly - as of episode 1.8 on this Sunday - we now have two monsters at large.  I don't mean the evil spirit and the person whose identity he/it takes.  I mean, we have Jack and now Claude, who now both seem afflicted by the evil.

Claude looks ok, even though he doesn't feel that great and has been seeing shadows or whatever lurking around.  The evil has its hooks in him, and indeed is transforming into him, to the point of almost kidnapping another child, this time a boy, in a truly harrowing interlude.

And then there's Jack, the guy with the bad neck.  As far as I can tell, he has no doppelganger, at least not yet.  But something is, almost literally, eating him up.  What's going on with that?

Meanwhile, Ralph is finally almost there, in accepting Holly's position.  She's still frustrated with him, but in every episode, he's coming closer to seeing the light, or maybe the true darkness would be the better metaphor for this.

The Outsider continues to be a highly effective, stylish horror story.  As I said in my review, it's what you'd expect from Stephen King (who wrote the novel) and Richard Price, who brought the story to the screen.  Both, in their own ways, are known for their surprise endings, or at least the unexpected.  I'm wondering that will be in The Outsider.  I'm guessing it's something that's been right under our noses all this time.  But this story is so different, in its flow and intensity, that all bets may be off about how it will conclude in just two more episodes.  All the more reason to watch them.

See also The Outsider 1.1-2:  Two Places at the Same Time ... The Outsider 1.7: The Tear-Drinker ... The Outsider 1.7: The Guy with the Neck