“The Final Country” feels like it’s breaking new ground showing teenage Becca Hays (Deborah Ayorinde) as Wayne drives…
“It’s terrible what this work makes you ponder, isn’t it?”
At a 1990 reading from Life And Death And The Harvest Moon,…
“You shouldn’t have seen that. Try and forget it.” That’s what Roland West says after Tom Purcell walks in on photos of…
In 2015, former detective Wayne Hays stands in his former police station, waiting for his son. He uses every tool in…
“Are you awakening to what you withheld?”
“It’s too dark, man!” “I don’t care.”
A prospective Oscar frontrunner stars in an HBO mystery directed by a festival-circuit hotshot, about a murder in a…
Most of the official images released ahead of this season finale show its characters sitting in thought, hands together…
It’s the pieces you take your eye off of that get you in the end. The second season of True Detective should know that…
After all the allusions to The King In Yellow and the Carcosa mythos, many viewers were disappointed that the first…
If we’re supposed to treat the first two seasons of True Detective as distinct organisms, a pair of unique stories that…
The closing shootout of “Down Will Come” is the second round of True Detective in a nutshell. As the detail wastes ammo…
Tonight, HBO offers another lesson to aspiring TV coroners everywhere: Don’t declare a character dead until you’ve seen…
All is not well in Frank Semyon’s inland empire. He can’t sleep. There’s water damage on the bedroom ceiling. He has to…
“Why would I do another buddy-cop show?” asks True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto in a recent Vanity Fair profile. “I…
In the end, there is only the darkness and the light. There is no Rustin Cohle, there is no Martin Hart. There’s not a…
Marty Hart has committed the most egregious sin in the Book of Male Antihero: He’s gone ordinary. In the parlance of…
The big cosmic joke that True Detective is playing involves turning anyone who’s watching the show too closely into…
If 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…
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