Fridays, 10/9c, Cinemax
When in Rome—Rome, West Virginia, that is— best to duck and cover, because demons lurk everywhere: inside an 8-year-old boy, infecting a wizened invalid (Twin Peaks’ Grace Zabriskie, still a sight to behold), possessing wives and mothers and who knows who’s next. Outcast, the latest from The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman—and, like so much else on TV, derived from a graphic novel—takes its terrors seriously, a far cry from AMC’s campy, more scattershot Preacher.
As if The Exorcist had relocated to Banshee (Cinemax’s justconcluded exercise in the extreme), this deeply unnerving series follows the exploits of two battle-worn warriors trying to rid a rural outpost of dark forces: irascible Reverend Anderson (Life on Mars’ formidable Philip Glenister) and his haunted and reluctant protégé, Kyle Barnes (soulful Patrick…
