Origins, Abilities, Meaning And Season 2 Theories. We discuss the mysterious villain of HBO's The Outsider and what is really ...

HBO's The Outsider introduced "El Cuco" (sometimes "El Coco") in episode 4. The myth has Spanish origins and is similar to the boogeyman.

This maniacal force has been called everything from Baba Yaga to Jumbee, to El Coco (or El Cuco) and Black Annis. The end of The Outsider Episode 4 sees Holly researching this terrible foe.

But in Mexican culture, El Cuco is described as an amorphous child-eating beast. In a post-episode featurette for the series on HBO, King talks about the lure of a myth like El Cuco.

The legend of El Cuco—the shape-shifting eater of children, the drinker of tears and grief—transcends cultures around the world. Some know El Cuco as Baba Yaga or Babau, ...

Maybe the short is based on an experience Daniel Garcia had with El Cuco in his actual life, or maybe he fell into a 3am Wikipedia wormhole, but the notion of reading and watching more non-fiction ...

"The Outsider" finale on HBO seemed to show Ralph and Holly defeat El Cuco for good...but a detail fans have noticed in the mid-credits might suggest the battle isn't over yet.

On last week's penultimate episode of The Outsider, Ralph and his team were under fire as a virtually insane Jack Hoskins rained bullets down on the unsuspecting gang of detectives. Alec Pelley ...