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We explain the ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ episode, “The Outside.” In it, the Guillermo del Toro collection looks at inside and outer good looks via horror.

Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers for Cabinet of Curiosities episode "The Outside."

In an almost Twilight Zone-esque type, Cabinet of Curiosities series author Guillermo del Toro opens each and every episode with an evidence of what we’re about to look. In the fourth episode of the Netflix sequence, titled “The Outside,” he starts, “Late night TV. Images and voices at nighttime. In our head. An digital cupboard of curiosities.”

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How does this “electronic cupboard of curiosities” play into who we're and who we wish to be? This is what “The Outside,” in line with a web comic, Some Other Animal’s Meat by Emily Carroll, explores. By fusing Guillermo’s horror-centric perspective of “curiosities” with Emily’s grievance of the wonder business, “The Outside” targets to tell the story of a lady plagued by means of each those concepts. Director Ana Lily Amirpour explains the way it all fits together.

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‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ episode “The Outside” director Ana Lily Amirpour explains its which means.

Speaking with Den of Geek, Ana explained of “The Outside” that “the entire thing is set [how] the outside is what we pass judgement on the entirety through, and what sort of significance we give to the outdoor, the outside. You know, what’s inside is so different, regardless of who you are, it’s so other from the out of doors. And that’s true for everyone. And I feel that a madness can happen in being too obsessive about just the out of doors.”

Throughout the episode, we see how Stacey (Kate Micucci) lets that “insanity” plague her. At first, she just seems a bit of other from her coworkers. But when she gets a pity-invite to HBIC Gina’s Christmas birthday party, Stacey feels how other she in reality is. Stacey enjoys taxidermy and spending time along with her policeman husband, Keith (Martin Starr). But Gina and the others obsess over the newest good looks trends and plastic surgery procedures.

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In an effort to fit in, Stacey uses the Alo Glo lotion that’s gifted to her, and it starts to take over her existence. As her obsession grows, her skill to rationalize shrinks until it's nothing. The Alo Glo reasons an averse apparently allergy for Stacey, but she ignores the pink (and itchy) flags, in addition to Keith’s concerns in choose of becoming in. Why now? Well, as a result of now, she in spite of everything has access to some way to slot in. It’s like dangling the treat in entrance of her nose — it’s so shut she will style it.

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Throughout “The Outside,” Keith tries to speak rationally to Stacey, and he tells her that she’s stunning inside and outside. But the beauty trade and Stacey’s internalized misogyny is louder. It could be theorized that there was a poltergeist in Stacey and Keith’s home that haunted Stacey into killing her husband and changing into a vapid Alo Glo model of herself. Or possibly, the Alo Glo itself personified into a gooey lotion being.

To Ana, the lotion being is “the seduction of this supreme you that you believe may exist somewhere, you recognize if a genie within the bottle may just simply provide the answer. It’s like it needs to be one thing that’s somehow seductive before you recognize that it has some doom and it has one thing ominous about it.” It undoubtedly does feel each seductive and ominous all through the episode.

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Regardless of what precisely came about supernaturally, the true underlying story is what happens thematically. By the top, Stacey kills her supportive husband and shirks off her id in want of fitting in. She sees Keith because the remaining obstacle to changing into who she wants to be. However, the remaining shot shows Stacey ascending into transient “utopic acceptance,” but as she laughs into the display, we can see the pain in her eyes.

And we will feel her questioning us, bold us to be in her place, to let the television seep inside us to question everything we're and the whole lot we imagine.

How a ways would we move to slot in and have compatibility the sweetness usual? If we needed to promote the souls of our closest allies and friends, would we do it?

“The Outside” is now available to stream on Netflix as part of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.

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