TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 6: “Church in Ruins”
Comparing the classical, effective opening scene of “Church in Ruins” to the largely weak rest…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 5: “Other Lives”
So, how do you top something like the all-owning, status-quo destroying shootout of last week?…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 4: “Down Will Come”
In the South they believed they had bloodied their land with history. In California we…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 3: “Maybe Tomorrow”
Storytelling is lying. What we hear, what we see, is not actually happening. What we…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 2: “Night Finds You”
Review of minutes 1-58: here, in the tenth hour of Nic Pizzolatto’s television works, we…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 1: “The Western Book of the Dead”
Last night saw the return of one of television’s most unique and innovative shows, an…
Meaning Is Historical: TRUE DETECTIVE season 1
LA Confidential could have been the title for True Detective, as L. A. Confidential, more…
False Grit: A Trip Through ‘Galveston’
Genre fiction, whether it is mystery, horror, sci-fi, or fantasy, has often received the cold…