This is a 70-something Wayne Haynes, now listening to his own pre-recorded messages in order to remember daily routines. The episode begins as our eyes follow the wheels on a bike, the sound of the spokes reverberating as our eyes adjust to a different image – that of a man with a dazed look on his face. This season, time is not exactly a flat circle, so buckle up. Of course the biggest throughline between season 1 and 3 is the non-linear narrative, with the action taking place over 3 periods of time: in 1980 – the investigation, with Detective Wayne Hays ( Ali ) working the case with his partner 1990 – new evidence in the case is presented and 2015 – present day, as a much older Wayne works to recount the events of his past.
Not to say this season is True Detective Light, any season of television anchored by Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali should be eaten up immediately with a spoon. Keep in mind – McConaughey and Harrelson this is not. Will it be this season of ‘ True Detective’? ‘ Watchmen’? ‘ The Righteous Gemstones’? THE GLORIOUS RETURN OF ‘ DEADWOOD’?!
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They need to harness the reigns of another hit TV show. Much like the audience that devours it, HBO clearly still holds this show up there with some lofty importance, with the likes of ‘ Game of Thrones’, ‘ Westworld’ and possibly…well… ‘ Veep’? Yikes, what happened to all the prestige HBO? Not only does this season of ‘ True Detective’ need to be a hit, but with GoT ending, if it this season isn’t well received, we will likely see HBO throw even more money, shows, and celebrities at the wall just to see what will stick.
Remember when I said it might be unfair to hold high expectations? Well I did say might. Neither was HBO really, as they had a shakeup of their own resulting from the middling returns on the second season. Now at this point in time (late 2015 almost two years since the premiere of the first season) Pizzolatto was not sitting pretty. More likely, as Cohen croons in the opening credits, you probably just said “Nevermind. Maybe you remember some great – but somber, often muted – performances from Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, and Vince Vaughn. You might have watched the second season, hopefully you can recall the terrific Leonard Cohen song that elicited a visceral feeling of dread the show was never able to match. In Hollywood of all places.Ĭhances are you watched the first season, enjoyed dissecting the mysteries, and voraciously watched as Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson hunted down foes with names like “The Yellow King” and “The Spaghetti Monster.” OR! You found the whole exercise a well-acted, but hollow narrative, “ boiled down to bickering cops hunting a sinister ‘rape club.’” Each valid opinions, and obviously the only two opinions that anyone is ever allowed to have. If this current iteration had been delivered as a follow-up to the first season it would have likely been ripped to shreds for presenting something that dares to be tonally similar to something that was successful years ago. At first glance, our season 3 murder mystery could be ripped straight out of Rust and Marty’s casebook. In the span of just 3 months – roughly translated, a century in 2019 years – ‘ True Detective’ had captured the zeitgeist (granted, a lot easier when we all weren’t terrified) and Pizzolatto had signed a two-year deal with the network (all but guaranteeing the production of future seasons), prospects were looking up, up, up!īut here we are…5 years later…in a bit of a weird situation.