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The cinematography and direction were just incredible, it was fascinating seeing a part of America that doesn’t normally get shown on tv, and of course the writing and acting was terrific as well. Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey played off one another perfectly as a couple of totally mismatched detectives who manage to form a partnership. I loved all of Rust’s monologuing and nihilism, but it wouldn’t have worked as well without Marty around to react to that, his reactions to his partner produced some really funny moments in spite of how dark the show was otherwise.
It was definitely extremely dark and harrowing in places though. I remember it stood out to me especially that episode five has Marty and Rust portrayed as heroes after they rescue the little girl, only for the flashforward to reveal that she has spend the 7 years since then in a catatonic state, still trapped and haunted by what she experienced back then, so it seems like they never could save her in the end after all :(
The ending confused me a bit after there had been so many hints about a larger conspiracy, but then in the end it was all just one man behind it all that his family were covering up for? It felt a bit more small-scale than I was expecting when we switched to seeing him and his half-sister (although his reveal at the end of episode 7 was certainly fantastic and chilling!) Idk it feels like a show that you need to rewatch a couple of times to take it all in maybe, as I’m still lost on a few points
Oh and sadly I did find myself liking Marty less and less as the series went on. At first it was like fine they’re showing him cheating on his wife to show that he’s a flawed character, but then when he was beating up the two young boys who slept with his daughter, when he started sleeping with the former young girl from the brothel, just urgh I really started to find him and his macho behaviour hard to take at around that time. I ended up liking him more though I guess after we caught up with him and Rust after the time-jump, I liked their partnership a lot, but I wouldn’t go crazy for his character otherwise
I’m not sure whether to watch any further seasons or not at the moment, I’ve heard a lot about the first season being the only outstanding one of the three, so I think I might just leave it here as a one-off mini series. Especially as it’s apparently an anthology series with all new characters each season, so I’m not sure that there’s any point in going on when the the response hasn’t been that positive to the later seasons, and the characters are going to be different anyway. Still the first season really was impressive television, I liked it a lot.
You could definitely tell that it was HBO quality, I noticed they made the same decision as Big Little Lies did to have the same writer and director throughout, and I wish that more shorter seasons of 6-8 seasons would take that path. I remember it standing out to me with The Handmaid’s Tale that there was a noticeable quality drop after the first three episodes when they switched their original director, whereas I think that Big Little Lies and True Detective really benefitted from having just one directors vision to oversee the entire project, it does feel more cinematic in that way
It was definitely extremely dark and harrowing in places though. I remember it stood out to me especially that episode five has Marty and Rust portrayed as heroes after they rescue the little girl, only for the flashforward to reveal that she has spend the 7 years since then in a catatonic state, still trapped and haunted by what she experienced back then, so it seems like they never could save her in the end after all :(
The ending confused me a bit after there had been so many hints about a larger conspiracy, but then in the end it was all just one man behind it all that his family were covering up for? It felt a bit more small-scale than I was expecting when we switched to seeing him and his half-sister (although his reveal at the end of episode 7 was certainly fantastic and chilling!) Idk it feels like a show that you need to rewatch a couple of times to take it all in maybe, as I’m still lost on a few points
Oh and sadly I did find myself liking Marty less and less as the series went on. At first it was like fine they’re showing him cheating on his wife to show that he’s a flawed character, but then when he was beating up the two young boys who slept with his daughter, when he started sleeping with the former young girl from the brothel, just urgh I really started to find him and his macho behaviour hard to take at around that time. I ended up liking him more though I guess after we caught up with him and Rust after the time-jump, I liked their partnership a lot, but I wouldn’t go crazy for his character otherwise
I’m not sure whether to watch any further seasons or not at the moment, I’ve heard a lot about the first season being the only outstanding one of the three, so I think I might just leave it here as a one-off mini series. Especially as it’s apparently an anthology series with all new characters each season, so I’m not sure that there’s any point in going on when the the response hasn’t been that positive to the later seasons, and the characters are going to be different anyway. Still the first season really was impressive television, I liked it a lot.
You could definitely tell that it was HBO quality, I noticed they made the same decision as Big Little Lies did to have the same writer and director throughout, and I wish that more shorter seasons of 6-8 seasons would take that path. I remember it standing out to me with The Handmaid’s Tale that there was a noticeable quality drop after the first three episodes when they switched their original director, whereas I think that Big Little Lies and True Detective really benefitted from having just one directors vision to oversee the entire project, it does feel more cinematic in that way
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Date: 2019-03-19 03:04 pm (UTC)