Prime Video’s new Outer Range trailer suggests season 2 of the genre-bending sci-fi show will be even stranger

Things are getting really weird in Wyoming as Prime Video’s strange sci-fi show returns

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Something seriously weird is happening in the wilderness of Wyoming – and if you thought things were pretty odd in season one ofOuter Range, then it looks likeOuter Rangeseason twowill be stranger still. The Josh Brolin-starring sci-fi western show has got a brand new and quite detailed trailer, which you can see below.

The first season ended pretty explosively, and there’s not long to wait until the second season’s available to stream: it’s coming on May 16, 2024. And hopefully it’ll answer some of the many questions left hanging at the end of season one.

If you haven’t seenOuter Rangeyet, it’s one of the more ambitious shows you can stream right now. It’s a little bit western, a lot sci-fi, a murder mystery and a family drama too. It starts with the discovery of a massive hole in the ground, a hole from which all kinds of bizarre things emerge. That may not give much away, but it’s one of thebest Prime Video showswe’ve seen, so we’re excited to see how season two will match up.

Outer Range Season 2: what to expect

There will be seven episodes in season two, and they’ll all be available from May 16. Josh Brolin’s back, of course, and so are all the key actors from the season one cast – including some who you might not expect to see this time around.

Without giving away any spoilers, the first season ofOuter Rangeeventually kinda sorta answered the question of what the hell was going on out there, and how Brolin’s character Royal Abbott and Imogen Poots' Autumn ended up where they are. In season two, we’re likely to see more of that backstory, and we’re likely to discover more about the mystery around the once-missing Rebecca.

The second season may feel slightly different from the first because there’s a new showrunner this time around: Brian Watkins, who wrote season one and was the showrunner too, has been replaced by Charles Murray. And Brolin directs one of the episodes in season two.

I’m excited about this, because it’s fun to have a show where you really have no idea what’s going to happen next: while it sometimes feels like it’s going to crash under the weight of its multiple story strands, it hasn’t done that so far. AsWonderfully Weird and Horrifyingsays, “Outer Rangeproves to be unique, alluring, and infinitely odd… expertly acted, and wonderfully strange, it’s a hit.”

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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.

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