![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She feels a certain kinship with it, alluding to King’s wider mythology when she says, “an outsider knows an outsider.” It’s very rare in King’s universe to follow a human character who’s drawn to both good and evil because she knows what’s at the root of both. ![]() Why is Holly such a sure bet? In The Outsider, it takes Holly, Ralph (Ben Mendelsohn), and an entire team of locals twelve episodes to take down their monster, but it’s very quickly clear that Holly’s abilities extend beyond just this one ghoul. SCENE STEALERS is a celebration of the best supporting TV and movie characters in 2020. It seems like an obvious and fruitful move to give this Holly her own TV series, one that could follow her through all the as-yet-unadapted King books (with some familiar baddies sprinkled in for fan service). When she’s played by Erivo on The Outsider, though, Holly is at her most compelling. (She also has a short story of her own, titled “If It Bleeds.”) She’s always an uncomfortable figure to the normies in King’s universe, and she interprets the nature of whatever Kingsian monster is hunting them down. Holly (Cynthia Erivo) appears in several Stephen King novels, including 2018’s The Outsider, Mr. “Well then, sir,” Holly Gibney replies, looking ominously at the detectives through her eyelashes, “you’ll have no tolerance for me.” In an early scene in HBO’s underrated horror series The Outsider, the would-be hero cop Ralph Anderson announces that he has no tolerance for the unexplainable. ![]()
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