'The Outlaws' deserves a top spot on your comedy watch list

A criminally fun watch
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It only took four words to convince us to watch the Prime Video comedic thriller: "Stephen Merchant" and "Christopher Walken."

The Outlaws first premiered in 2021 on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK, but the series deserved to reach a whole new audience of crime and comedy (crimedy?!) lovers when it dropped on Prime Video on April 1, 2022.

Mashable Senior Editor Nicole Gallucci takes us through why the show is worth a watch.

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Nicole Gallucci

Nicole is a Senior Editor at Mashable. She primarily covers entertainment and digital culture trends, and in her free time she can be found watching TV, sending voice notes, or going viral on Twitter for admiring knitwear. You can follow her on Twitter @nicolemichele5.


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