The premise, cooked up by Merchant and co-writer Elgin James, is simple enough. There’s no wonder a second season has already been greenlit. All of this is to say that The Outlaws is very good indeed. He’s funny and self-deprecating, but also smart, observant, and empathetic. His new show, the six-part crime comedy The Outlaws, which is airing on the BBC in Blighty and on Amazon Prime Video internationally, is a very different prospect but exhibits the same sense of sneaky genius that threads through all of Merchant’s comedy as far back as the XFM days.
His Fighting With My Family was a warm and affectionate look at a family of British wrestlers trying to make it overseas. But his recent work compared with that of long-time creative partner Ricky Gervais suggests he might have been the brains of the operation all along. Stephen Merchant is perhaps best known as the less-successful half of the partnership that brought us The Office, Extras, and numerous other collaborative comedy projects from podcasts to audiobooks and radio shows. This recap of The Outlaws season 1, episode 1 contains spoilers. Smart, funny, and surprisingly dramatic, Stephen Merchant’s The Outlaws is a winner.
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