Calvin's Canadian Cave of Coolness: Sell Me On 'True Detective'

Monday, March 10, 2014

Sell Me On 'True Detective'

I like a complete story told in only eight episodes.

8 comments:

Booksteve said...: First off, I have NEVER been a fan of either of the stars. That said...I am NOW!

There's a mystery, with suspects and odd characters and clues and red herrings...but none of that's important.

TRUE DETECTIVE is a show about people and friendships and changes and life and death and hard choices and debts and love and loss and reality and fantasy.

In the end, the mystery itself is but a McGuffin. You take the very stylish ride to enjoy the company of the two actors giving the performances of their lives as two very unusual characters.

As in TWIN PEAKS, nothing is what you think it is. But NOT as in TWIN PEAKS, nothing is what your expectations think will happened either!

I never even heard of the thing til last week but i binge-watched the first 7 when I should have been working.

It was worth it.; March 10, 2014 at 7:56 PM
Kal said...: I am sold.; March 10, 2014 at 8:33 PM
Jordan said...: It's one of the best things I've ever seen or read.

The entire story was written by a single writer, who's a) a novelist; b) started out publishing short fiction in The Atlantic; c) cites Alan Moore and Grant Morrison as among his main early influences.

I was in tears for the ending.

It's comparable to Silence of the Lambs, No Country For Old Men (book more than movie) and L.A. Confidential (ibid.)

T Bone Burnett did the music.; March 11, 2014 at 12:09 AM
Timothy S. Brannan said...: Here is what I wrote yesterday about the finale and series as a whole (no spoilers).

http://timbrannan.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-lights-winning-true-detective.html; March 11, 2014 at 5:02 AM
Timothy S. Brannan said...: I say find a weekend and binge watch it. For me I'd also have something southern or cajun for dinner.; March 11, 2014 at 5:03 AM
Timothy S. Brannan said...: I say find a weekend and binge watch it. For me I'd also have something southern or cajun for dinner.; March 11, 2014 at 5:03 AM
Kal said...: You boys have convinced me. I think I will love this.; March 11, 2014 at 6:13 AM
Kal said...: You boys have convinced me. I think I will love this.; March 11, 2014 at 6:13 AM

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