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Postmortem: Did 'True Detective' Do Justice to Latino California?
Lori Flores
01 Sep 2015
Recent
Television
Truth and Other Restrictions: 'True Detective' - Episode 7 - "Black Maps and Motel Rooms"
Series creator Nic Pizzolatto constructs the entire season on a simple exchange: death seems to be the metaphysical wage of knowledge.
Anthony Merino
04 Aug 2015
Television
Sex, Drugs and Alternative Folk: 'True Detective' - Episode 6 - "Church in Ruins"
Despite a few Scooby Doo level of conveyance, writer/ creator Nic Pizzolatto finally starts giving the audience the kind of chemistry they expect.
Anthony Merino
29 Jul 2015
Television
True Detective: Episode 4 - "Down Will Come"
Director Jeremy Podeswa and writer Nic Pizzolatto expand and extend a pervasive movie trope, but still leave their main characters and the viewers bewildered, befuddled, and anticipating the next installment.
23 Jul 2015
Television
'True Detective': Maybe Tomorrow
True Detective, Season 2, Episode 3: Where does the kitsch end and the surreal begin?
06 Jul 2015
Television
Buttoned-up 'Detective' Now at Work
No other art form, with the possible exception of professional sports, is as critically deconstructed on a daily basis as television.
Mary McNamara
23 Jun 2015
Television
HBO Teases the Second Season of 'True Detective'
HBO's got big shoes to fill following the successful first season of True Detective. Based on its first teaser, the show continues to have promise.
07 May 2015
Internet
Contemplations on the Nature of Truth: True Crime, 'True Detective', and 'Serial' Obsessions
True Detective and Serial mark our society’s preoccupation with all things illegal, especially when they end in murder.
29 Mar 2015
Television
Anthologies, 'American Horror Story', and the Disposability of Pulp Storytelling
This show embraced its reputation for the weird and the strange, but it's storytelling methods are among the messiest in television.
25 Feb 2015
Television
The Best Television of 2014
In 2014, we let Russian spies, biker gangs, Silicon Valley techies, and existentially frustrated detectives into our living rooms. As these 25 picks reveal, we had good reasons for doing so.
05 Jan 2015
Television
'True Detective' and the Conventions of Morality
In the realm of moral ambiguity they occupy, Rust Cohle and Marty Hart become a microcosm of Lawrence Kohlberg's three stages of moral development.
Derek Lazarski
09 Sep 2014
Television
'True Detective' and the Death of Television Criticism
Something has gone wrong if critics consider True Detective the best that contemporary television has to offer.
23 Jun 2014
Television
'True Detective' and the Primal Urge to Tell Stories by Starlight
The True Detectives are driven by the desire to create form from void, to seek meaning where none exists. They share the primal urge to daub on cave walls and tell stories about the shapes we see in the stars.
Xander Bennett
30 Mar 2014
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