B+Season 2True Detective: “Omega Station”Emily L. Stephens8/10/15 2:09amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkMost of the official images released ahead of this season finale show its characters sitting in thought, hands together…
A-Season 2True Detective: “Black Maps And Motel Rooms”Erik Adams8/03/15 12:19amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt’s the pieces you take your eye off of that get you in the end. The second season of True Detective should know that…
B-Season 2True Detective: “Church In Ruins”Emily L. Stephens7/27/15 2:26amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAfter all the allusions to The King In Yellow and the Carcosa mythos, many viewers were disappointed that the first…
CSeason 2True Detective: “Other Lives”Erik Adams7/20/15 7:15amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIf we’re supposed to treat the first two seasons of True Detective as distinct organisms, a pair of unique stories that…
B-Season 2True Detective: “Down Will Come”Erik Adams7/13/15 1:35amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe closing shootout of “Down Will Come” is the second round of True Detective in a nutshell. As the detail wastes ammo…
B+Season 2True Detective: “Maybe Tomorrow”Erik Adams7/05/15 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkTonight, HBO offers another lesson to aspiring TV coroners everywhere: Don’t declare a character dead until you’ve seen…
B-Season 2True Detective: “Night Finds You”Erik Adams6/28/15 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAll is not well in Frank Semyon’s inland empire. He can’t sleep. There’s water damage on the bedroom ceiling. He has to…
B-Season 2True Detective: “The Western Book Of The Dead”Erik Adams6/21/15 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkHBO’s Brand New Sunday Night is doomed to suffer from comparisons. Ballers must answer to the crimes of Entourage; The…
C-True Detective struggles to go straightBrandon Nowalk6/18/15 12:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Why would I do another buddy-cop show?” asks True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto in a recent Vanity Fair profile. “I…
A-Season 1True Detective: “Form And Void”Erik Adams3/10/14 1:58amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIn the end, there is only the darkness and the light. There is no Rustin Cohle, there is no Martin Hart. There’s not a…
CSeason 1True Detective: “After You’ve Gone”Erik Adams3/02/14 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkMarty Hart has committed the most egregious sin in the Book of Male Antihero: He’s gone ordinary. In the parlance of…
B+Season 1True Detective: “Haunted Houses”Erik Adams2/23/14 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe big cosmic joke that True Detective is playing involves turning anyone who’s watching the show too closely into…
ASeason 1True Detective: “The Secret Fate Of All Life”Erik Adams2/16/14 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIf you felt like the big raid at the end of “Who Goes There” was a turning point for True Detective, good work—here’s a…
ASeason 1True Detective: “Who Goes There”Erik Adams2/09/14 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFor the most part, True Detective has avoided scenes like the one that concludes “Who Goes There.” It’s a thriller, but…
A-Season 1True Detective: “The Locked Room”Erik Adams1/26/14 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWithholding information must be one of the most challenging aspects of cultivating a mystery like the one at the center…
B+Season 1True Detective: “Seeing Things”Erik Adams1/19/14 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFrom a nuts and bolts description of True Detective, there’s not much that makes the series sound exceptional. Literary…
BSeason 1True Detective: “The Long Bright Dark”Erik Adams1/12/14 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe only female presence in the first eight minutes of True Detective is a corpse. This isn’t as damning as it sounds,…
B+True Detective avoids pulp in favor of philosophyTodd VanDerWerff1/10/14 12:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe trick to appreciating True Detective is understanding that it’s being sold as something quite different from what…
