Season 2 of “Outer Range” picks up around where the series’ debut left off two years ago. Or was that a century and a half? Time paradoxes in this sci-fi Western multiply this go-‘round, and while they don’t make a lick of sense, the temporal dysphoria of jumping around eras leads to compelling character work and relationships that, fantasy elements aside, ring true and deep as a Rocky Mountain crevasse.
It’s an improvement over the intriguing but less textured first season. That could be by design; this tale of warring Wyoming ranch families baffled by the appearance of a mystical black hole in a disputed pasture required a good deal of setup before it could effectively pay off.
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