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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. ( Read more... )


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