Monday, March 10, 2014

True Detective Delivers in Miniseries Finale


The HBO miniseries True Detective ended last night.

My wife and I enjoyed the clever and compelling miniseries and I thought Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson offered fine performances, as did the supporting cast.

I look forward to seeing what new detectives and plot the producers and writers offer next season.

Sara Stewart at the New Post offers a view of the season finale:

Finally, the truth can be told (many spoilers below!): the real villain of “True Detective” is…  HBOGo.com, which crashed epically as the much anticipated finale of the eight-episode miniseries was set to begin.

Irate web viewers aside, the last installation of the brilliant detective noir did not disappoint, delivering a baddie of mythical proportions and a satisfyingly philosophical coda for former partners Rustin Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson).

It even offered a rather inarguable explanation for its failure to address the entirety of the conspiracy theories floated along the way (the Tuttle ministry and family! Maggie’s father! What happened to Audrey?): “We ain’t gonna get ‘em all. That ain’t what kind of world it is.”  

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://nypost.com/2014/03/09/true-detective-delivers-in-miniseries-finale/

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