Season two features a new showrunner and EP in Charles Murray, a TV veteran known for writing on Luke Cage, Sons of Anarchy, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars; he replaces creator Brian Watkins, a playwright who made his screenwriting and producing debut with Outer Range. In his first extended interview about the second season, Brolin tells me that the change felt important to Outer Range’s future success.
” Brolin expanded his list of duties on season two to include director, helming the pivotal penultimate episode, and he opens his debut on the show with an ominous quote from Royal that ties some of the series’ biggest ideas together: “Nobody understands time and what it really is.” That sentiment of uncertainty circles Autumn as she grapples with the nature of her existence in the aftermath of season one’s reveal.