Feb 25 2019
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“Now Am Found” delivers everything I expected from a True Detective finale: two hardbitten men having a ta…
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Feb 17 2019
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“The Final Country” feels like it’s breaking new ground showing teenage Becca Hays (Deborah Ayorinde) as Wayne…
Feb 10 2019
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“It’s terrible what this work makes you ponder, isn’t it?”
At a 1990 reading from Life And Death And The Harvest Moon…
Feb 3 2019
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“You shouldn’t have seen that. Try and forget it.” That’s what Roland West says after Tom Purcell walks in on photos…
Jan 27 2019
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In 2015, former detective Wayne Hays stands in his former police station, waiting for his son. He uses every tool…
Jan 20 2019
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“Are you awakening to what you withheld?”
Jan 13 2019
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“It’s too dark, man!” “I don’t care.”
Jan 11 2019
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A prospective Oscar frontrunner stars in an HBO mystery directed by a festival-circuit hotshot, about a murder in a…
Aug 10 2015
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Most of the official images released ahead of this season finale show its characters sitting in thought, hands…
Aug 3 2015
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It’s the pieces you take your eye off of that get you in the end. The second season of True Detective should know…
Jul 27 2015
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After all the allusions to The King In Yellow and the Carcosa mythos, many viewers were disappointed that the first…
Jul 20 2015
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If we’re supposed to treat the first two seasons of True Detective as distinct organisms, a pair of unique stories…
Jul 13 2015
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The closing shootout of “Down Will Come” is the second round of True Detective in a nutshell. As the detail wastes…
Jul 5 2015
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Tonight, HBO offers another lesson to aspiring TV coroners everywhere: Don’t declare a character dead until you’ve…
Jun 28 2015
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All is not well in Frank Semyon’s inland empire. He can’t sleep. There’s water damage on the bedroom ceiling. He has…
Jun 21 2015
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Jun 18 2015
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“Why would I do another buddy-cop show?” asks True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto in a recent Vanity Fair profile.…
Mar 10 2014
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In the end, there is only the darkness and the light. There is no Rustin Cohle, there is no Martin Hart. There’s not…
Mar 2 2014
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Marty Hart has committed the most egregious sin in the Book of Male Antihero: He’s gone ordinary. In the parlance of…
Feb 23 2014
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The big cosmic joke that True Detective is playing involves turning anyone who’s watching the show too closely into…