Noah Reid on Going From Sweet ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Songbird to Sinister Disciple on ‘Outer Range’
Hunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: Do not read until you have watched the full season of “Outer Range,” now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.In the end, it was Vanessa Williams circa 1991 whose lyrics best encapsulated Amazon Prime Video’s wild sci-fi western “Outer Range:” “Isn’t this world a crazy place?”After a season of surreal musical moments, Noah Reid hit a high note with Williams’ classic “Save the Best for Last” in this week’s finale, when Billy Tillerson euphorically serenaded aspiring cult leader Autumn (Imogen Poots) in the lobby of a bank and vowed to protect her from her rival, gruff rancher Royal (Josh Brolin).“They kicked around a lot of songs for that moment in the bank,” Reid told Variety. “But that Vanessa Williams song is so perfect for a song that would be probably playing in the bank and also explains exactly to [Billy] where he is and who he is in the moment with her, belonging to her.