According to ScreenRant, Stephen King (Creepshow, Kingdom Hospital) has recently stated that the TV adaptation of his novel, The Outsider, deserves a second season. It has been four years since the series was canceled by HBO and as time goes by, many fans of the first season want more. 

One fan of the series took to Twitter/X to give praise to the series and how it deserved a second season stating: “Rewatching HBO’s The Outsider, based on the @StephenKing novel. This show SO deserved a second season.”

Shortly after the initial post, King himself responded by saying “Yes. It did.”

Full post of the interaction down below.

Yes. It did. https://t.co/qTScD2Lujd

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) April 18, 2024

Created by Richard Price (Sea of Love, The Color of Money), The Outsider premiered in 2020 on HBO and ran for one season. The series based on King’s novel follows a string of gruesome murders targeting children. Detectives are called to the scene to piece together any evidence to pinpoint the culprit, although it is not that easy, the culprit as in many of King’s novels, is a creature that can take on the form of other individuals. A paranormal shape-shifter that enjoys feeding off of the suffering of humans. 

The cast for the series included Ben Mendelsohn (Animal Kingdom, Ready Player One) as Ralph Anderson, Bill Camp (Sound of Freedom, 12 Years a Slave) as Howard Salomon, Jeremy Bobb (Russian Doll, The Continental) as Alec Pelley, Mare Winningham (Turner & Hooch, St. Elmo’s Fire) as Jeannie Anderson, Paddy Considine (The World’s End, Dead Man’s Shoes) as Claude Bolton, Yul Vazquez (Godfather of Harlem, Promise Land) as Yunis Sablo, Julianne Nicholson (Janet Planet, Blonde) as Glory Maitland, Marc Menchaca (Ozark, She’s Lost Control) as Jack Hoskins, Cynthia Erivo (Chaos Walking, Bad Times at the El Royale) and many others. 

Season one of The Outsider is available to Stream on Max.