One of the few welcome surprises of 2020 was just how good The Outsider was. The HBO limited series, based on Stephen King’s 2018 novel and adapted by the great Richard Price, was a skin-crawling exercise in sustained tension, full of atmosphere and dread. While weirdly overlooked at the Emmys (save for a nomination for Jason Bateman’s admittedly stellar performance), it was popular with critics and audiences, and while initially deemed a “limited series,” Price recently admitted to writing new scripts and Bateman (who also directed the first two episodes) said that HBO was discussing it. Now …