'The Outlaws': Prime Video's Charming Misfit Comedy Has a Lot of Heart

Perhaps the reason that Prime Video seems to have struggled with how to market its new crime caper The Outlaws is that it's a show that isn't anything like what you'd expect it to be. (In the best possible ways.)

The six-episode series, which dropped on the streaming service last week, looks like it ought to be an edgy dark comedy (or possibly a messy superhero drama if you too can't stop thinking about the awesomely underrated Misfits every time you see the title card). Yet, it's one of the strangely sweetest, most offbeat joys of the spring season, a charming romp about found family, second chances, and embracing one's true self.

The premise is super simple: Seven strangers are all assigned to the same Bristol community service group after committing a variety of petty crimes that range from shoplifting to check forging and solicitation. They've got little in common and no one is exactly looking to make friends. But when they find themselves caught up in a dangerous plot involving a bag of money they find on their clean-up job, they'll have to trust and count on one another like never before.